The intent of the Legacy Campaign–initiated by a group of visionary alumni, departmental and Clark School leadership–is to create an endowed fund that will support a new, permanent faculty member who will ensure that the department’s curriculum includes applications in FPE, and that the department continues to conduct applied research for industry.
Contributions to the Department of Fire Protection Engineering help create more educational and research opportunities for our students and faculty members. The generous support of friends and donors allows FPE to provide graduate awards to attract the strongest candidates; discretionary funds to support new faculty and graduate student research, and scholarships to increase college access and affordability.
Your contribution can have an impact on a student today and far-reaching impacts for tomorrow.
A Destination for Tomorrow's Engineers
In the Clark School, students utilize top-of-the-line equipment and lab space to support our rapidly growing programs, and encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and growth.

FPE's unique salt-water laboratory.
Featured Funds
The Legacy Campaign
FIRE Center
FIRE Center membership provides an opportunity for strategic partnerships between corporations/individuals and the FPE program. Members are given unique access to the intellectual capital (students, faculty and research) of the department while also serving as a gateway to campus research collaborations, access to laboratories, and intellectual property licenses.
The high visibility of FIRE Center members creates recognition by students, faculty and the departmental community of your commitment to fire protection engineering education at the University of Maryland. Funds generated through the program support scholarships, student activities, competitions, awards, conferences and other programs that directly benefit students and faculty.
Fire Protection Engineering General Scholarship Fund
Scholarship support designated specifically for undergraduate FPE students can have a profound impact on the lives of student recipients. It helps to alleviate the financial pressure on both the student and their family and allows them to focus on receiving a world-class education at the only accredited undergraduate fire protection engineering program in the world.
FPE Department Chair Discretionary Fund
Gifts to the FPE Chair's Discretionary Fund provide extremely valuable, unrestricted support for the Department. These gifts allow the Department Chair to allocate funding where it is most needed, providing crucial, timely and effective support to areas of need to maintain a world-class teaching and research environment.
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