Approved Courses
The following list includes undergraduate courses that have been approved as of June 2010. Courses added after that date do not appear in this list. Courses eliminated after that date may still appear. Not every course is offered regularly. Students should consult the Schedule of Classes at www.testudo.umd.edu to ascertain which courses are actually offered during a given semester.
COURSE NUMBERING SYSTEM
| Number |
|
Eligibility |
| 000-099 |
|
Non-credit course |
| 100-199 |
|
Primarily freshman course |
| 200-299 |
|
Primarily sophomore course |
| 300-399 |
|
Junior, senior course not acceptable for credit toward graduate degrees |
| 386-387 |
|
Campus-wide internship courses; refer to information describing Experiential Learning |
| 400-499 |
|
Junior, senior course acceptable for credit toward some graduate degree |
| 500-599 |
|
Professional School course (Dentistry, Architecture, Law, Medicine) or post-baccalaureate course |
| 600-899 |
|
Course restricted to graduate students |
| 799 |
|
Master Thesis credit |
| 899 |
|
Doctoral Dissertation credit |
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Courses in "ENFP-Engineering, Fire Protection"
ENFP - Engineering, Fire Protection
ENFP 101 Hot Topics in Fire Protection Engineering (1)
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
Credit only granted for: ENFP 108 or ENFP 101. Formerly: ENFP108.
Current issues of importance to fire protection engineering. Topics
focus on advances in basic fire science, computerized fire modeling,
safety systems, human behavior and fire, fire toxicity, risk analysis,
performance based fire safety, fire reconstruction, arson and evidence,
voluntary fire safety standards, codes, and relations with other
disciplines including architecture and the built environment, loss
prevention and fire insurance.
ENFP 108 Hot Topics in Fire Protection Engineering (1)
Restriction: Must be in a major in ENGR-A. James Clark School of
Engineering; or permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering
department. Repeatable to 2 credits if content differs.
Current issues of importance to fire protection engineering. Topics
focus on advances in basic fire science, computerized fire modeling,
safety systems, human behavior and fire, fire toxicity, risk analysis,
performance based fire safety, fire reconstruction, arson and evidence,
voluntary fire safety standards, codes, and relations with other
disciplines including architecture and the built environment, loss
prevention and fire insurance.
ENFP 210 Fire and Western Culture (3)
Fire and Western Culture: Human interaction with fire as both
destructive and productive force from ancient cultures to the
present. Fire in war, agriculture, religion, art, industry, philosophy,
science, urban development, engineering, criminal law, including arson
and modern environmental protection.
ENFP 250 Introduction to Life Safety Analysis (3)
Prerequisite: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
Credit only granted for: ENFP250 or ENFP251. Formerly: ENFP251.
Introduction to fire protection engineering and building regulation,
building safety systems, and egress system design. Evacuation modeling.
Human behavior in fires. Tenability Analysis.
ENFP 255 Fire Alarm and Special Hazards Design (3)
Prerequisite: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
Formerly: ENFP315.
Study of fire detection and alarm and gaseous and particulate fire
suppression systems. Examination and evaluation of design criteria,
performance specifications and research. Application of elementary fluid
theory to the design and calculation procedures for gaseous and
particulate fire suppression systems. An integrated fire protection
systems design project.
ENFP 300 Fire Protection Fluid Mechanics (3)
Prerequisite: MATH246; and completed or be concurrently enrolled in
PHYS260 and PHYS261. Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection
Engineering department.
Presents students with the fundamental properties of fluids and fluid
movement. Both static and dynamic fluid problems will be considered
with an emphasis on fire protection systems.
ENFP 310 Water Based Fire Protection Systems Design (3)
Prerequisite: ENFP300. Corequisite: Concurrently enrolled in ENFP312.
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
Introduction to aqueous fire suppression. Discussion of key fluid
dynamics and heat transfer processes in aqueous fire suppression. System
design and performance analysis based on national standards, hydraulic
theory and elementary fluid dynamics and heat transfer.
ENFP 312 Heat and Mass Transfer (3)
Prerequisite: ENES232 and ENFP300. Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Fire
Protection Engineering department.
Fundamentals of heat and mass transfer. Conduction, convection, and
radiation modes of heat transfer. Diffusion concepts and evaporation
phenomena. Problem solving techniques with application to fire problems.
ENFP 320 Fire Assessment Methods and Laboratory (3)
Three hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week.
Prerequisite: ENFP312. Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Fire
Protection program.
Experimental evaluation of ignition, flame spread, rate of heat release
and smoke production of furnishings and interior finish materials.
ENFP 350 Professional Development Seminar (1)
Prerequisite: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
Restriction: Junior standing or higher. Credit only granted for: ENFP350
or ENFP450. Formerly: ENFP450.
An integrative, upper level professional development seminar covering
topics such as engineering ethics, professional licensing, codes and
standards, intellectual property, career selection and various
contemporary issues in fire protection engineering.
ENFP 405 Structural Fire Protection (3)
Prerequisite: ENES220. Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Fire
Protection program; and permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering
department.
Effects of elevated temperature on structural materials; steel,
concrete, wood, gypsum, glass and reinforced plastics. Experimental
evaluation of fire resistance of building assemblies. Analytical
methods to evaluate fire resistance of structural members.
ENFP 410 Advanced Fire Suppression (3)
Prerequisite: ENFP250, ENFP310, and ENFP312. Restriction: Permission of
ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department. Credit only granted for:
ENFP 410, ENFP 653, or ENFP629C.
Analysis of application and theory of fire suppression systems. The key
elements of fire suppression systems will be discussed along with how
they interact for effective fire suppression design. Physical
mechanisms for a variety of fire suppression approaches will be
discussed including hose streams, sprinklers, water mist, foam, clean
agents, and chemical agents.
ENFP 411 Risk-Informed Performance Based Design (3)
Prerequisite: ENFP250 and ENFP255. Restriction: Senior standing; or
permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
Appraisal and measurement of fire safety. Application of systems
analysis, probability theory, engineering economy and risk management
in the identification and synthesis of components of fire protection
engineering. Methods for the development of criteria for the design,
evaluation and assessment of fire safety or component hazards.
ENFP 413 Advanced Life Safety Analysis (3)
Prerequisite: ENFP250. Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection
Engineering department. Also offered as: ENFP613. Credit only granted
for: ENFP413 or ENFP613.
Fractional effective dose (FED) methods for predicting time to
incapacitation and death of fires for use in fire safety calculations.
Physiology and toxicology of the fire effluent components,
decomposition chemistry of common materials, standard experimental
approaches. Predictive models of material production rates. People
movement characteristics related to building evacuation. Formulation
and application of evacuation models. Human behavior factors affecting
response of people to fire situations.
ENFP 415 Fire Dynamics (3)
Prerequisite: ENFP312. Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection
Engineering department.
Introduction to premixed and diffusion flames; ignition, flame spread
and rate of burning; fire plumes; flame radiation.
ENFP 425 Enclosure Fire Modeling (3)
Prerequisite: ENES232 and ENFP300. Restriction: Must be in Engineering:
Fire Protection program; and Senior standing; and permission of
ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
An introduction to the elements of enclosure fires through the
development of fire modeling algorithms and the application of
computer-based fire modeling techniques. Numerical techniques, including
curve-fitting, root-finding, integration and the solution of ordinary
differential equations, are developed in the context of enclosure fire
modeling applications. Math software packages, including primarily
spreadsheet programs, are used to address and solve a variety of
enclosure fire problems.
ENFP 426 Computational Methods in Fire Protection (3)
Prerequisite: ENFP425. Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection
Engineering department. Credit only granted for: ENFP426 or ENFP416.
Introduction to computer-based fire modeling: zone modeling and
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); documentation of input data,
validation and verification tests.
ENFP 429 Independent Studies (1-3)
Prerequisite: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Fire Protection program. Repeatable
to 6 credits if content differs.
For students who have definite plans for individual study of approved
problems, or study of an advanced topic selected in conjunction with
the faculty.
ENFP 435 Product Liability and Regulation (3)
Restriction: Junior standing or higher.
Key topics include, biotechnology, safety regulation, federal
preemption, product liability, professional negligence, antitrust,
privacy and information technology, risk modeling, environmental
protection, patent, copyright, trade secrets, reverse engineering,
scientific and technological evidence, international trade, engineering
ethics. Examples include plane crashes, computer chip protection, human
machine interfaces, nuclear power plants, internet censorship, flood
control, earthquakes and biomedical technology.
ENFP 440 Smoke Management and Fire Alarm Systems (3)
Prerequisite: ENFP300. Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection
Engineering department.
Analysis of hazard posed by smoke in buildings. Performance
characteristics of smoke management systems. Review of analytical
design aids. Functional analysis and design of fire detection and
alerting systems. Examination and evaluation of code criteria,
performance specifications and research.
ENFP 489 Special Topics (3)
Prerequisite: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
Repeatable to 6 credits.
Selected topics of current importance to fire protection.
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