Board of Advisors
The Fire Protection Board of Advisors meets annually to discuss current issues and future opportunities with the WPI faculty and administration, and submits its recommendations and reports to the president of WPI and to the head of WPI's Fire Protection Engineering Department.
George E. Toth (Chairman)
Chief Operating Officer
The RJA Group
April L. Hammond Berkol, '85
Wayne Moore, PE, CFPS, SET
Principal
Hughes Associates, Inc.
Douglas J. Carpenter ’97
Vice President and Principal Engineer
Combustion Science and Engineering, Inc.
Anthony Hamins
Chief, Fire Research Division
NIST
Odofike A. Ezekoye, PhD, PE
Professor, Graduate Advisor
W. W. Domberger Centennial Teaching Fellow
University of Texas at Austin
Louis Gritzo, PhD
Vice President and Manager of Research
FM Global
David J. LeBlanc, WPI '97
Senior Project Manager
Tyco Fire & Building Products
Wayne Moore, PE, CFPS, SET
Principal, Hughes Associates
Kathy A. Notarianni, WPI '86
Department Head
Department of FPE, WPI
James Quiter
Principal
Arup
Paul E. Rivers
Product and Applications Development Specialist
3M Performance Materials
Jose L. Torero, PhD
RA Engineering Chair in Fire Safety Engineering/Head
The University of Edinburgh
Peter J. Gore Willse, PE, FSFPE
Vice President, Research Global ASSET/Protection Services, LLC
XL Capital Group
Emeritus Members
- Carl F. Baldassarra
Executive Vice President
The RJA Group - Paul A. Croce
Vice President and Manager of Research
FM Global Research - David Douglas Drysdale
Emeritus Professor of Fire Safety Engineering
School of Engineering Edinburgh
Electronics University of Edinburgh
- Howard W. Emmons (deceased)
Professor Emeritus
Harvard University - David D. Evans
Executive Director
Society of Fire Protection Engineers - Rolf H. Jensen (deceased)
Professor and FPE Department Head
Illinois Institute of Technology
