Program Overview

Fire Protection Engineering Graduate Certificate

The Fire Protection Engineering Graduate Certificate is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to identify risks related to fire, reduce the risks of fire, and create safeguards through designing against fire. This program combines the principles of science and engineering with a desire to save people and property from fires.

Program Overview

As students study fire protection engineering, they will learn how to apply principles within this area of study, including consideration of people and the environment, designing and constructing a building with fire hazards in mind, and design of fire detection and suppression systems.

Why Fire Protection Engineering?

Fire protection engineering is a unique discipline that enables students to combine their love of problem-solving with protecting people. This area of study is essential to society, making it an in-demand career. Fire protection engineers can specialize in several areas, including explosion protection, clean agent suppression, passive fire protection, and more.

What Can You Do With a Graduate Certificate in Fire Protection Engineering?

After receiving a graduate certificate in fire protection engineering, students have several paths before them. If they are most interested in preventing and mitigating fire risk, they can work as consultants, forensic investigators, or as fire equipment manufacturers or designers. If providing insight into why fires happened is more interesting to them, they could go into fire investigation through a government or city position.

Featured Courses

The following are some of the courses that students in this program can choose to take:

• AET 563 Introduction to Fire Protection Engineering: This class covers the application of fire protection engineering principles to the safe design, wiring, and construction of buildings and infrastructure.
• AET 564 Enclosure Fire Dynamics: In this course, students will learn about the application of fire protection engineering principles to enclosure fire dynamics.
• AET 567 Forensic Engineering: Forensic Engineering covers forensic engineering tools to the comprehensive investigation and analysis of materials, products, structures, or components that fail or do not operate or function as intended, causing personal injury or damage to property.
• AET 575 High Performance Computer Modeling and Visualization: Students will get to use high-performance computer modeling to assess and visualize the impact of smoke and heat transfer to buildings, electronic equipment, and on human survivability.

Related Programs

Considering a degree instead of a certificate? The following are some related programs to fire protection engineering:

• Electrical Engineering, MS
• Computer Engineering
• Computer Science

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The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996

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