Scott R. Rockwell Ph.D.

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Presents a SunCam continuing education series on the topic of:

Fire Protection Engineering.

Contact author at:
srsafetyscience@gmail.com
Richmond, KY

Textbook chapter in “Homeland Security Technologies for the 21st Century” titled Introduction to Fire Protection Systems Related to Infrastructure Protection
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Textbook chapter in “Foundations of Safety Management” titled Introduction to Fire Behavior for Safety Management Personnel

Dr. Rockwell is an assistant professor at Eastern Kentucky University, where he teaches classes on fire behavior, combustion, fire dynamics, statistics, fire prevention, and building construction along with conducting research on various tipics. He has earned a BS degree in Aerospace Engineering along with a MS and PhD in Fire Protection Engineering. Additionally, he is a certified fire and explosion investigator (CFEI) and a certified fire investigation instructor (CFII) through the National Association of Fire Investigators (NAFI). His current research topics includes active learning teaching techniques that minimize the student’s cognitive load when teaching mathematical topics, radiation from dust flash fires, and investigations into the scaling of fire whirls. Among others, he serves on the Society of Fire Protection Engineering (SFPE) Higher Educational subcommittee and the Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) Education Subcommittee. He also operates a website to provide freely available fire science educational material at the following URL:www.firesciencetools.com

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259-An Introduction to Heat Transfer in Structure Fires

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5 $112.50

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

Besides the fire triangle (fuel, heat, oxygen), heat transfer is the driving factor behind how fires start, grow, and potentially threaten life and property. This course provides and introduction to methods for calculating conduction, convection, and radiation which occur in a typical structure fire. Methods are presented for calculating temperatures and velocities in side of compartments during a fire and how to calculate the activation time for a sprinkler head. A brief introduction into modern computer fire models is presented and an excel file is included with the course material which has been programmed to complete the equations used in the course.

Learning objectives:

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Describe the role heat transfer plays in structure fires.
Use hand calculations and computer programs to estimate the heat flux to objects from a fire.
Use hand calculations and computer programs to estimate the ignition time for objects based on a given heat flux.
Use hand calculations and computer programs to estimate the temperature inside of structures containing a fire.
Describe the different kinds of computer fire models and their limitations.