ENFP465

Fire and Explosion Investigations

Prerequisite: Student should have senior standing. Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department. Credit only granted for: ENFP489N, ENFP629N OR ENFP665. Formerly: ENFP489N. Additional information: The course will be taught as a shared senior-level undergraduate course and graduate course. This course covers many aspects of fire and explosion investigation and reconstruction. Information on field techniques, applicable standards, and best practices are presented with an emphasis on how fire science and fire dynamics can be applied to forensic analysis. Experiments are performed and analyzed to demonstrate the concepts.