Program Criteria For Safety and Fire Engineering Technology
Up to Safety & Fire Engineering Technology

                                   
Lead Society: National Council of Examiners for Engineering and surveying

Cooperation Society: The Society of Fire Protection Engineers

Objectives

The Safety & Fire Engineering Technology program will produce Graduates:

1. Who have a sound background in analysis, program solving, applied design, the implementation of fire safety, protection and prevention, industrial hygiene, and managerial skills.
2. Who are proficient in applying their knowledge in mathematics, science and engineering, and computer software, to technical problem solving.
3. With strong social skill, able to work in a team environment, competent in communication and information presentation, and with a strong sense of professionalism and ethics.
4. Who are immediately employable and productive from the first day in the work place and are committed to continuous improvement and lifelong learning.

Outcomes

A minimally competent fire protection engineer (technologist) must demonstrate sound knowledge and judgement in the application of science and engineering to protect the health, safety, and wlfare of the public from the impacts of fire; this includes the ability to apply and incorporate a thorough understanding of fundamental systems and practices as they pertain to life safety and fire prevention, detection, control, and extinguishment. As a minimum, a competent fire protection engineer (technologist) must demonstrate the ability to:

1. Be familiar with the nature and characterisitics of fire and the associated products of combustion.
2. Understand how fires originate, spread within and outside of buildings/structures, and extinguished.
3. Anticipate the behavior of materials, structures, machines, apparatus, and processes as related to the protection of life and property from fire.
4. Analyze safety and fire hazards and their risks.
5. Recognize and solve safety and fire safety technical problems and issues.
6. Design and evaluate safety and fire protection systems.
7. Apply mathematics and the basic sciences (includeing physics and chemistry) to the solution of problems commonly encountered in fire engineering technology
8. Apply the principles of engineering mechanics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer and fire dynamics to fire protection design and analysis.
9. Analyze how buildings are used, how fires start, grow, and how fire and smoke affect people, buildings and property.
10. Apply computer modeling to fire analysis and design.
11. Have a basic knowledge of human response principles as related to evacuation movement, human response to fire cues, and timed egress analysis.
12. Assess adequacy of means of egress taking into account exits, occupancy types, occupant loads, emergency lighting, and the marking of the means of egress.
13. Integrat safety and fire protection features and systmes into building design.
14. Use the latest technology to design systems that control fires, alert people to danger, and provides means for escape.
15. Apply national and international safety and fire protection standards and building codes.
16. Have a knowledge of industrial hygiene.
17. Fuction effectively on teams
18. Communicate effectively
19. Engage in lifelong learning.
20. Understand professional, ethical and social responsibilities.
21. Have a respect for diversity and knowledge of contemporary professional, and societal and global issues.

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