Call for Papers -- SFPE 2012 Annual Meeting

SFPE is now accepting abstracts for educational presentation for its two-day Engineering Technology Conference being held October 15 – 16, 2012 in Savannah, GA. Deadline for submission is March 30, 2012. For submission guidelines or the most up-to-date conference information, visit http://www.sfpe.org/Portals/sfpepub/docs/pdfs/2012%20ETC%20Guidelines%20for%20Abstracts.pdf.

SFPE Fellow Nominations

SFPE is now accepting Fellow Nominations for 2012. If you wish to nominate a Professional Member of SFPE to the Fellow Grade, please submit the completed nominations package to Sean Kelleher at skelleher@sfpe.org by January 30, 2012.


For the nominations forms or more information, visit http://www.sfpe.org/GetInvolved/Membership/NominateaFellowHonoraryMember.aspx.

Society of Fire Protection Engineers Welcomes Three New Chapters

The Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) Board of Directors has approved the formation of three new SFPE Chapters:

• · SFPE BENELUX Chapter
• · SFPE Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Student Chapter
• · SFPE Polish Chapter

On October 23, 2011, SFPE presented the Chapter Charter to the Cal Poly Student Chapter at the SFPE Annual Senate Meeting in Portland, Oregon. Pictured above from Left to Right are: SFPE Vice-President and member of Cal Poly Chapter Josh Elvove presenting the Chapter Charter to Mark Ferraresi (member of Cal Poly Student Chapter), Fred Mowrer (Cal Poly Faculty), David Phillips (member of Cal Poly Chapter) and Will Fletcher (member of Cal Poly Chapter).

On November 29, 2011 SFPE presented Chapter Charters to the BENELUX and Polish Chapters at the SFPE European Chapter Coordination Meeting that was held in Brussels, Belgium.

Pictured above SFPE Immediate-Past-President Robert Jönsson (Right) presents the Chapter Charter to Benelux Chapter Secretary Jean-Claude De Smedt (Left).

Pictured from Left to Right: Tadeusz Cisek (Polish Chapter Vice-President), Piotr Tofilo (Polish Chapter President) receive the Chapter Charter from SFPE Immediate-Past-President Robert Jönsson and SFPE Engineering Program Manager Chris Jelenewicz.

SFPE would like to thank the leadership from these new chapters for all the hard work in getting these chapters up and running. Best of Luck!