Credits: 3

Description

Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
Credit only granted for: ENFP413 or ENFP613.
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.

Semesters Offered

Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Summer 2024, Spring 2024