Category: "News"

Formal Proceedings of NFPA Sustainable Buildings Symposium Released

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Maryland Day Fire Tornado

Maryland day was a great success, with many visitors touring the laboratory to see what Fire Protection Engineering is all about. The main feature was our fire tornado, created in ...

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UMD Fire Protection Engineering Students and Faculty Visit MFRI

Some students and faculty from the Department of Fire Protection Engineering (FPE) at the University of Maryland, College Park  (UMD) were able to visit the Maryland Fire Research Institute (MFRI) ...

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Jeanette Cobian is awarded the Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship 2012-2014

Congratulations to  Jeanette Cobian, a former UCSD undergraduate and participate in the CAMP program, for being awarded the LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Fellowship. She will be pursuing a Masters ...

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Dr. Michael Gollner to Join FPE Faculty at the University of Maryland

Here is a re-post from the department's homepage: The Department of Fire Protection Engineering (FPE) at the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering is pleased to announce that ...

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PhD Dissertation Published: “Studies on Upward Flame Spread”

My PhD Dissertation, "Studies on Upward Flame Spread" has been published and is now available online. Studies on Upward Flame Spread Abstract of the Dissertation: Experimental techniques have been used ...

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Pre-Print of Symposium Paper now Available

A pre-print of our symposium paper, "Experimental Study of Upward Flame Spread and Burning of anInclined Fuel Surface," accepted to the 34th International Symposium of the Combustion Institute has now been ...

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Paper Accepted to 34th International Symposium on Combustion

Our paper, an Experimental Study of Upward Flame Spread and Burning of anInclined Fuel Surface has been accepted to the 34th International Symposium on Combustion! The conference will be held this summer in ...

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Watch Richard Feynman’s Fun to Imagine: Fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITpDrdtGAmo Great video if you have not seen it before! We should all remember to be excited and curious about the world - and our research!

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How Do You Fight Fire in Space? Experiments Provide Some Answers

Prof. Williams research was featured recently in the UCSD News: LINK. Read about it below: Research on the International Space Station also aims for a better understanding of fuel combustion here on ...

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