Professor Ai Sekizawa to Receive Society of Fire Protection Engineers 2011 D. Peter Lund Award at SFPE Annual Meeting

At its Annual Awards Luncheon in Portland, Oregon on October 24, 2011, the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) will present its 2011 D. Peter Lund Award to Ai Sekizawa. Professor Sekizawa is with the Graduate School of Global Fire Science and Technology at the Tokyo University of Science.

The award is made by the SFPE Board of Directors in acknowledgment of contributions to the advancement of professional recognition of the fire protection engineer. It is named in honor of D. Peter Lund, the first executive director of SFPE.

“Throughout his career Sekizawa has served as a positive advocate for the fire protection engineering profession throughout Japan,” said SFPE Engineering Program Manager Chris Jelenewicz. “Most recently he promoted the science and technology that keeps our world safe from fire by serving as President of Japan Association for Fire Science and Engineering from 2009 to 2010.”

For 30 years Sekizawa has focused his research on fire risk analysis especially in residential fires and fire safety plans for buildings. He was awarded a Doctoral Degree of Engineering from Kyoto University in 1979. In 1992, he was the recipient of “The Harry C. Bigglestone Award” of the Journal of Fire Technology for the joint paper with Dr. John Hall entitled "Fire Risk Analysis: General Conceptual Framework for Describing Models." This paper greatly contributed to enhance common understanding and sharing of the concept and terminology regarding fire risk analysis among fire researchers and fire protection engineers.

To attend the SFPE Annual Awards Luncheon and find out more about the SFPE Annual Meeting visit http://www.sfpe.org/SharpenYourExpertise/Education/2011SFPEAnnualMeeting.aspx.

Follow the SFPE Annual Meeting on Twitter

To get the most up to date information about the upcoming SFPE Annual Meeting that is being held on October 23-28, 2011 in Portland, Oregon, follow it on Twitter. To sign up go to http://twitter.com/#!/SFPEAnnualMtg.

Call for papers for the Fire Safety Day 2012 at Sweden's Lund University

A call for papers has been announced for the second Fire Safety Day 2012. This event will be hosted by the Department of Fire Safety Engineering and Systems Safety at University of Lund (Sweden) in collaboration with the Department of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark on the April 18th, 2012.

The day will focus on fire research in Scandinavia. Contributions from other countries are more than welcome. The conference language is English.

To find out more go to http://www.brand.lth.se/fileadmin/brandteknik/Aktuellt/Nyhetsfiler/Fire_Safety_Day_2012.pdf.

Professional Development Seminars Featured at this Year’s Society of Fire Protection Engineers' Annual Meeting

The SFPE Annual Meeting provides an opportunity to learn new developments in fire protection engineering.  This year’s event will feature Professional Development Seminars which encompasses a series of seminars being taught by the profession’s leading technical experts. Seminars being offered at this year’s event are:

 

• New!  Use of Quantitative Tools for Analysis of Fire Dynamics
• New!  Protection of Storage Occupancies – NFPA 13
• New!  Application of Fire Risk Assessment
• Sprinkler Design for the Engineer
• Principles of Fire Protection Engineering
• Introduction to Fire Dynamics Simulator and Smokeview
• Introduction to Industrial Fire Protection Engineering
• Dust Explosion:  Hazard Recognition, Assessment and Management
• Advanced Fire Alarm Systems Design:  Computational Methods of Fire Alarm Systems Design
• Smoke Control Session I:  Fundamentals and Pressurization Systems
• Smoke Control Session II:  Design Fires, Atrium Control and Tenability Systems

SPECIAL OFFER!!!  Register for one Professional Development Seminar and receive a 25% discount on any additional Professional Development Seminar of equal or lesser value.  For additional savings, register before September 23, 2011 to receive the Advance Registration Discount.

 “SFPE Professional Development Seminars are an excellent way to keep up with your changing profession, said Jamie A. Moncada who is with International Fire Safety Consulting. “Many tools available today were not part of the curriculum when I studied fire protection engineering and therefore, SFPE Seminars are an excellent solution in continuing education.”

For the latest information on the seminars, visit  http://www.sfpe.org/SharpenYourExpertise/Education/2011SFPEAnnualMeeting/SFPEProfessionalDevelopmentSeminars.aspx.  

SFPE President-Elect Milke Featured in University of Maryland Diamondback Article

SFPE President-Elect Jim Milke, P.E., F.S.F.P.E, was featured in an article in the University of Maryland’s Student Newspaper (Diamondback). In this article Milke discusses the collapse of Manhattan’s World Trade Center Towers that occurred on September 11, 2001.

To see this article go to http://www.diamondbackonline.com/univ-engineering-professor-studies-towers-collapse-1.2585181.