Courses

Core Courses* (all courses required)

FPE 521 Fire Dynamics I
FPE 553 Fire Protection Systems
FPE 570 Building Firesafety I

*Students with professional expertise in any of these core subjects may ask their advisor to waive the course requirement. An alternate course will be substituted to meet the 30 credit hour requirement.

Integration Courses (one course required)

FPE 565 Firesafety Engineering Evaluation
FPE 571 Performance-based Design
FPE 573 Industrial Fire Protection

Elective Courses (six courses required)

FPE 510 Flammability Tests, Codes & Standards
FPE 520 Fire Modeling
FPE 554 Advanced Fire Suppression
FPE 563 Risk Management (MG 541)
FPE 565 Firesafety Engineering Evaluation
FPE 571 Performanced-based Design
FPE 572 Failure Analysis
FPE 573 Industrial Fire Protection
FPE 574 Process Safety Management (CM 594)
FPE 575 Explosion Protection
FPE 580 Special Problems in Fire Protection Engineering

Up to nine elective credits may be taken from other WPI graduate departments with advisor's permission.

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