News & Events
- New EMS Study Demonstrates How First Responder Crew Sizes and Paramedic Crew Configuration Influence Emergency Medical Response (September 29, 2010)
- A Celebration of Fire Protection Engineering, Thursday, September 23, 2010
- FPE Professor Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- RJA Pledges Key Sponsorship to Fund New Fire Sciences Lab
- The FPE department is pleased to add a Professor of Practice to their faculty (September 11, 2008)
- Fire Engineering Department - Faculty Position Announcement (December 21, 2006)
- Fire Safety Mom's Household Tips -- How a Fire Safety Expert & Mother of Three Safeguards Her Home from Fire (October 9, 2005)
- WPI Fire Protection Engineering Program Becomes a Department (April 15, 2005)
News Archives
- New Firesafety Studies Director Appointed (April 16, 2004)
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25th Anniversary Celebration: April 1, 2004
For those of you who could not join us for our 25th anniversary celebration on April 1, you will find a narrated copy of the banquet slide show at the URL shown below. It runs for about 25 minutes. Watch the presentation (requires Windows Media Player 9+) - National Research Council releases fire research report chaired by Professor Lucht [PDF: 10MB]
- David Lucht: Let's Be Intolerant Of Fire Traps
- WPI and FM Global to Increase Collaboration on Fire Research and Fire Protection Engineering Graduate Education (July 2, 2003)
- Professor Robert Zalosh published a book, Industrial Fire Protection Engineering in March 2003. The description reads "Written by an international expert in fire protection engineering, this book (based on the successful course run by the author at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) is essential reading for postgraduates and practitioners in firesafety engineering, academics in the field of fire science, as well as professionals and technical personnel in insurance and loss prevention companies." The book is available for purchase direct from the publisher and also on Amazon.com.
- On March 13, 2003, Professor David A. Lucht presented his report, "Cultural Tolerance for Fire Disasters", to the Special Meeting of the NFPA Technical Committee on Assembly Occupancies at the World Trade Center Boston.
- Watch the Emmons Distinguished Lecture, "Update on the FM Global Technology Center" (WMV) by Paul A. Croce, Ph.D. (You will need to have Windows Media Player 7.0 or higher installed and configured on your computer.)
- Watch the Reiss Distinguished Lecture, "Chemical Safety Board Investigations of Chemical Fires, Explosions, and Toxic Release Incidents" (WMV) by Gerald V. Poje, Ph.D. (You will need to have Windows Media Player 7.0 or higher installed and configured on your computer.)
- Read "The Role of Post-Secondary Education in Advancing Fire Protection Engineering", (PDF) an essay written by WPI FPE Department Head David Lucht, published in the Winter 2003 issue of Fire Protection Engineering, the quarterly technical magazine of the SFPE.
- Professor Barnett Helps Investigate WTC Collapse
- Worcester Conference Calls for Fire Safety Reforms
- WPI Journal Celebrates 20 Years of Fire Protection Engineering at WPI
- Fire Conferences
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