SFPE Northern California/Nevada Chapter Awards 20011 Scholarship

Left to Right: John Woycheese, Mark Ferraresi

The Society of Fire Protection Engineers-Northern California/Nevada Chapter awarded their 2011 scholarship to Mark Ferraresi. This annual Scholarship is to encourage new interest in study leading to a career as an FPE. Mr. Ferraresi is an Eagle Scout from the bay area and will participate in the new FPE program at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, working toward a Masters Degree.

The award was presented by John Woycheese, President, at the joint SFPE/NorCal Fire Prevention Officers meeting in San Francisco. Mr. Woycheese is also a previous recipient of the SFPE Scholarship. Local monthly SFPE meetings are open to all, and alternate between San Francisco and the East Bay.

To find out more about scholarships that are available to fire protection engineering students go to http://careers.sfpe.org.

Invitation to Participate in the SFPE Alliance of Young Engineers Survey

The Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) is in the process of establishing an Alliance of Young Engineers (AYE) to help promote activities for and participation by those interested in fire protection engineering 35 years of age and younger. In order to determine who wants to be involved and what activities most interest them, we would like to poll prospective members.

Participants will complete an online survey about what their current involvement is with SFPE – both on a local level and with SFPE International – and what activities most interest them professionally and socially. The survey can be completed in less than 5 minutes.

Your participation is essential in providing direction to the AYE and its initial success. We thank you in advance for taking the time to participate. All survey responses will be kept confidential.

Instructions for participation: To access the online form, please click on the following URL or copy the URL to your web browser, http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22BZAW7NWZH/.

SFPE Congratulates New Professional Members

The Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) would like to congratulate the following members who were upgraded to Professional Member grade by action of the SFPE Qualifications Board on March 31, 2011.

NEW PROFESSIONAL MEMBERS:

• Lisa Beaver


• Gerald J. Endler


• Brian Erbstoesser


• Jose L. Fernandez-Ilundain


• James R. Gardiner


• David House


• James Levitsky


• Kaiyuan LI


• Zachary Magnone


• Nicholas Moriarty


• Zachary Niehues


• Peter Petrus


• Michael Shumpert


• Tracey Worley

To find out more about Professional Membership at SFPE go to http://www.sfpe.org/Membership/Levels.aspx.

Freakonomics Radio podcast, “Death By Fire? Probably Not.”

An excellent podcast about fire protection engineering and the fire problem can be found on Freakonomics Radio. The podcast is entitled “Death by Fire? Probably Not” and features SFPE Vice-President Dan Madrzykowski . To find out more or listen to this podcast go to http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/03/24/freakonomics-radio-death-by-fire-probably-not/

List of Suggested References for the 2011 PE Exam in Fire Protection Now Available

The following are the suggested references for the 2011 Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) Exam in Fire Protection:

• SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering (4th Edition)

• NFPA Fire Protection Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering (20th Edition)

• NFPA 12 -- 2011

• NFPA 13 – 2010

• NFPA 24 – 2010

• NFPA 25 -- 2011

• NFPA 30 – 2008

• NFPA 68 – 2007

• NFPA 72 – 2010

• NFPA 92A – 2009

• NFPA 92B – 2009

• NFPA 101 – 2009

• NFPA 221 -- 2009

• NFPA 251 – 2006

• NFPA 2001 -- 2008

To find out more about licensure and the Fire Protection PE exam visit the SFPE Licensure Page at http://www.sfpe.org/Profession/ProfessionalLicensure.aspx.