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 Frederick Mowrer joined the faculty
in 1987 after receiving a Ph.D. in fire protection engineering
and combustion science from the University of California,
Berkeley. A registered fire protection engineer in the
state of California, Dr. Mowrer also has worked as a consultant
for an international fire protection engineering firm
and was an engineering representative for an insurance
organization. He is president-elect of the Society of
Fire Protection Engineers and an active member of the
International Association of Fire Safety Science and the
National Fire Protection Association. His primary research
interests include measurement of the contribution and
response of products and materials to fire, mathematical
fire modeling, development of a computer- based framework
for building fire safety analysis and design and analytical
fire reconstruction. He has published papers on all of
these subjects.
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 James
A. Milke has been a member of the faculty since
1977 and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.
His areas of expertise are smoke management and response
analysis of materials exposed to fire conditions. He
has served as a research fire prevention engineer at
the Center for Fire Research, National Institute of
Standards and Technology, as the fire protection engineer
for Fairfax, Virginia and as a consultant to several
other organizations. His research interests include
formulation of calculation methods to estimate the fire
resistance of structural member, analysis of smoke management
systems, experimental evaluations of the performance
of water mist systems and development of a prototype
of a smart fire detector.
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Richard J. Roby has
been president and technical director of Combustion Science
and Engineering, Inc. since 1998. He serves as the project
manager for a variety of experimental and analytical combustion
and fire science research and development projects. Dr.
Roby recently earned a patent for the development of an
advanced fire detector that combines conventional smoke
detection and CO detections. Prior to joining CSE, he
served as Director of Combustion Research at Hughes Associates,
Inc. where he developed and led the company's combustion
research and development efforts. Dr. Roby was a professor
in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University
of Maryland from 1986 to 1992 and taught undergraduate
and graduate courses in the thermal-fluid sciences. He
received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford
University in 1988.
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 David
J. Icove has been an inspector in the Criminal Investigations
Division of the U.S. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Police since 1993. In addition to conducting major case
investigations, he oversees the development of advanced
fire investigation training and technology programs in
cooperation with various agencies, including the U.S.
Fire Administration. Prior to joining the U.S. TVA Police,
Dr. Icove served nine years as a program manager in the
elite behavioral science and criminal profiling units
at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) where he
implemented and became the first supervisor of the Arson
and Bombing Investigative Support (ABIS) Program, staffed
by FBI and ATF criminal profilers. An internationally
recognized forensic fire engineering expert with over
30 years of experience, Dr. Icove is co-author of Combating
Arson-for-Profit, the leading textbook on the crime
of economic arson. He also serves as a principal member
of the NFPA 921 - Technical Committee on Fire Investigations.
He received his B.S. and M..S. degrees in Electrical Engineering
and a Ph.D. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from
The University of Tennessee. He also holds a B.S. degree
in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of
Maryland, College Park. He is presently an Adjunct Assistant
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at The University of Tennessee.
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John W. Watts, Jr. is the director of the Fire
Safety Institute in Middlebury, Vermont. In addition
to several years in the fire insurance industry, he
has been employed as a fire fighter, a fire researcher
and a fire investigator. Formerly an assistant professor
of fire protection engineering at the University of
Maryland, he spent a year teaching and conducting research
in the Department of Fire Safety Engineering at the
University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He also serves as
editor of Fire Technology, the quarterly journal
of fire safety science and engineering published by
the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Dr.
Watts has published numerous papers on fire risk assessment.
He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department
of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at
the University of Massachusetts.
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 Douglas
J. Carpenter has been vice president and principal
engineer of Combustion Science and Engineering, Inc.
since 1998. He is a leader in applying quantitative
tools to the investigation of fires and the design of
buildings. He has developed and taught classes and seminars
in fire investigation, computer fire modeling and performance-based
fire safety design for the Society of Fire Protection
Engineers and the International Council of Building
Officials. Prior to joining CSE, he worked for the Office
of Polar Programs at the National Science Foundation
and Hughes Associates, Inc. He received a M.S. in fire
protection engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute
completing a thesis on using computational fluid dynamics
to model room fires.
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 Marc
L. Janssens is director of the Department of Fire
Technology at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio,
Texas. He has more than 70 publications in journals, books
and conference proceedings, in an associate editor for
Fire and Materials and serves as First Vice Chairman of
ASTM Committee EO5 on Fire Standards. Dr. Janssens also
serves as an adjunct associate professor and teaches in
the Distance Education Fire Safety Engineering Technology
Program at the University of North Carolina Charlotte.
He received a M.S. in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D.
in fire protection engineering from the University of
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 Eric R. Rosenbaum, P.E. is the Director of Architectural & Engineering Services at Hughes
Associates, Inc. and has 20 years experience providing fire protection engineering services.
He is a registered Fire Protection Engineer (FPE) in New York, Virginia, Massachusetts,
North Carolina, Florida, Maryland, California, Colorado and the District of Columbia. In
2000, Mr. Rosenbaum received the SFPE’s Hat’s Off Award for his leadership of the Task
Group that developed The SFPE Guide to Performance Based Design. He has recently
authored articles regarding the use of performance based design in code equivalency, recent
advancements in smoke control and smoke management, and safeguarding historical
structures from fire and other natural hazards. Mr. Rosenbaum received both his B.S. and
M.S. degrees in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.
He is a member of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying, Society
of Fire Protection Engineers (Co-Chair of the SFPE Research Committee), National Fire
Protection Association (Member of the Means of Egress Committee), Salamander Fire
Protection Engineering Honorary Society, and Tau Beta Pi Association, a National
Engineering Honor Society. He has prior experience providing overseas services for the
Department of State. As Principal-in-Charge, Mr. Rosenbaum will concentrate his efforts to
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 Morgan J. Hurley, P.E. is the Technical Director of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, where he
manages the technical activities of the Society. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Fire
Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1990, and a Master’s degree in the
same discipline in 2000. Mr. Hurley is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of
Virginia.
Since joining the staff of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers in 1998, Mr. Hurley has
focused on developing the technical infrastructure to facilitate performance-based design. Mr.
Hurley is a member of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, the National Society of
Professional Engineers and the National Fire Protection Association. |
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