Classes in ENFP
| ENFP255 | Fire Alarm and Special Hazards Design (3 credits) | ||||
| Prerequisite: permission of department. Formerly ENFP 315. Study of fire detection and alarm and gaseous and particulate fire suppression systems. Examination and evaluation of design criteria, performance specifications and research. Application of elementary fluid theory to the design and calculation procedures for gaseous and particulate fire suppression systems. An integrated fire protection systems design project. | |||||
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| ENFP300 | (PermReq)Fire Protection Fluid Mechanics (3 credits) | ||||
| Prerequisites: MATH246 and (PHYS260 and PHYS261 {Formerly: PHYS262}). Basic principles of fluid flow. Properties of a fluid, velocity field, flow patterns. Pressure distribution in a fluid. Hydrostatic and hydrodynamic problems. Integral relations for control volumes. Differential relations, dimensional analysis and similarity. Internal and external flow problems associated with fire protection systems and fire scenarios. | |||||
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| ENFP310 | Water Based Fire Protection Systems Design (3 credits) | ||||
| Prerequisite: ENFP300 and permission of department. Corequisite: ENFP312. Introduction to aqueous fire suppression. Discussion of key fluid dynamics and heat transfer processes in aqueous fire suppression. System design and performance analysis based on national standards, hydraulic theory and elementary fluid dynamics and heat transfer. | |||||
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| ENFP320 | Fire Assessment Methods and Laboratory (4 credits) | ||||
| For ENFP majors only. Experimental evaluation of ignition, flame spread, rate of heat release and smoke production of furnishings and interior finish materials. | |||||
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| ENFP350 | (PermReq)Professional Development Seminar (1 credits) | ||||
| Prerequisite: permission of department. Junior standing. Not open to students who have completed ENFP450. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENFP350 or ENFP450. Formerly ENFP 450. An integrative, upper level professional development seminar covering topics such as engineering ethics, professional licensing, codes and standards, intellectual property, career selection and various contemporary issues in fire protection engineering. | |||||
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| ENFP411 | (PermReq)Fire Risk Assessment (3 credits) | ||||
| Prerequisites: ENFP250, ENFP255 and permission of department. Appraisal and measurement of fire safety. Application of systems analysis, probability theory, engineering economy, and risk management in the identification and synthesis of components of fire protection engineering. Methods for the development of criteria for the design, evaluation and assessment of fire safety or component hazards. | |||||
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| ENFP416 | (PermReq)Problem Synthesis and Design (3 credits) | ||||
| Senior standing. Techniques and procedures of problem orientation and solution design utilizing logical and numerical procedures. Student development of research projects in selected areas. Pre-requisite: permission of instructor. | |||||
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| ENFP613 | Human Response to Fire (3 credits) | ||||
| Prerequisite: permission of department. Fractional effective dose (FED) methods for predicting time to incapacitation and death of fires for use in fire safety engineering calculations. Physiology and toxicology of fire effluent components, decomposition chemistry of common materials, standard experimental approaches. Predictive models of material production rates. People movement characteristics related to building evacuation. Formulation and application of evacuation models. Human behavior factors affecting response of people to fire situations. | |||||
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| ENFP620 | Fire Dynamics Laboratory (3 credits) | ||||
| Recommended: ENFP 415. Laboratory experiments are designed to illustrate fire phenomena and test theoretical models. Diffusion flames, ignition and flame spread on solids, liquid pool fires, wood crib fires, fire plumes, compartment fires. | |||||
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| ENFP630 | Diffusion Flames and Burning Rate Theory (3 credits) | ||||
| Basic principles of diffusion flames for gaseous, liquid, and solid fuels. Droplet burning, B number, jet combustion, boundary layer combustion, generalized methods. | |||||
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