Fire Protection Engineering Graduate Certificate
Merge your love for science and engineering with a desire to save people by investing in a fire protection engineering graduate certificate. The knowledge you gain in this program makes you an expert in a variety of areas, enabling you to take your interdisciplinary education and apply it to real-life scenarios to keep people and property safe from fires.
Program overview
As you study fire protection engineering, you’ll learn how to identify risks related to fire, reduce the risks of fire, and create safeguards through designing against fire. Principles within this area of study include consideration of people and the environment, designing and constructing a building with fire hazards in mind, and design of fire detection and suppression systems.
Why get a fire protection engineering certificate?
Fire protection engineering is a unique discipline that enables you to combine your love of problem solving with protecting people. This area of study is essential to society, making it an in-demand career. Fire protection engineers can specialize in several areas, some of which include explosion protection, clean agent suppression, passive fire protection, and more.
What can you do with a graduate certificate in fire protection engineering?
After you receive your graduate certificate in fire protection engineering, you have several paths before you. If you’re most interested in preventing and mitigating fire risk, you can work as a consultant, forensic investigator, or as a fire equipment manufacturer or designer. If providing insight into why fires happened is more interesting to you, you could go into fire investigation through a government or city position.
Featured Courses
Below are some of the courses that students in our program can choose to take. For more information about the certificate requirements, visit the graduate catalog.
AET 563 Introduction to Fire Protection Engineering
This class covers the application of fire protection engineering principles to the safe design, wiring, and construction of buildings and infrastructure.
AET 564 Enclosure Fire Dynamics
In this course, students will learn about the application of fire protection engineering principles to enclosure fire dynamics.
AET 567 Forensic Engineering
Forensic Engineering covers forensic engineering tools to the comprehensive investigation and analysis of materials, products, structures, or components that fail or do not operate or function as intended, causing personal injury or damage to property.
AET 575 High Performance Computer Modeling and Visualization
Students will get to use of high-performance computer modeling to assess and visualize the impact of smoke and heat transfer to buildings, electronic equipment, and on human survivability.
Related Programs
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