Guest Lecture FP 575: Explosion Protection Engineering and FP 582: Quantitative Risk Assessment
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Guest Lecture FP 575: Explosion Protection Engineering and FP 582: Quantitative Risk Assessment
Fire vs. Explosion Safety: Physics, Engineering, and Codes
Prof. Jose Torero
Friday, February 6, 2026
11:00 – 12:30 pm EST
FPE classroom, Rm 1226
50 Prescott St, Worcester
José Torero, William R. Kenan, Jr., Visiting Professor at Princeton University, is a leading expert on fire safety who is a professor of civil engineering and the head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at University College London in the United Kingdom.
Torero was previously the John L. Bryan Chair in the Department of Fire Protection Engineering and a director of the Center for Disaster Resilience in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, from 2017 to 2019. He was previously on the faculty of the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland, Australia, and the University of Edinburgh.
Torero co-authored more than 270 articles and has contributed chapters to more than 30 books. He is a co-author of “Modelado y Simulación Computacional en la Edificación” (Computational Modeling and Simulation in Building) (Ediciones Díaz de Santos, S.A., 2007) and a co-editor of the “SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, 5th Edition” (Society of Fire Protection Engineers, 2015).
This lecture is offered as part of FP 575 (Explosion Protection Engineering) taught by Prof. Lorenz Boeck and FP 582 (QRA) taught by Prof. Stephen Kmiotek for the Explosion Protection Engineering (XPE) – A new and exciting interdisciplinary MS program by Aerospace, Chemical Civil, Fire Protection, and Mechanical Engineering at WPI.
https://www.wpi.edu/academics/study/master-science-explosion-protection-engineering