The course provides students with the skills and knowledge needed to start a career in safety engineering. The course has been designed to meet industry requirements, covering both fundamental and advanced aspects of fire and explosion education and training. Owing to the increase in performance-based standards, the industry needs professionals with a high level of scientific training, the ability to work in multidisciplinary teams. The topics include classifications of fires, temperature, heat, specific heat, fire causation theories, theory of fire extinguishment, flame and heat stages; products of combustion-flame, heat, smoke, fire gases; smoke – constituents of smoke, explosion and expansion ratios, deflagration and detonation, explosion- physical explosion, chemical explosion; special kinds of combustion- flash fire, pool fire, deep seated fire, spillover, boil over, dust explosion, earthquake engineering and safety in design, tsunami and disaster prevention real-world case study
Course ID: SAFEN 605
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 4 | 4 | 4 | - |
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