Fire safety engineering: comparison of a new degree programme with the model curriculum |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Institute for Computational Visualistics, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany;2. Computer Assisted Surgery group, University of Magdeburg, Germany;1. State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, PR China;2. College of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, Fujian 361021, PR China |
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| Abstract: | The curriculum design of a new degree programme in Building Services Engineering with Fire Engineering Specialism for the local fire engineering professionals in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is reported. The programme was approved by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and offered in September 1997 with an intake of 25 students per year. The aims are to train fire engineers who can handle not only ‘traditional’ fire engineering systems, but also perform the ‘new’ procedure of fire safety engineering hooked up with the development of ‘performance-based fire codes’ in an ‘engineering approach’. Subject contents to be included in a fire safety engineering degree programme are proposed. A comparison of this new scheme with the model curriculum in Fire Safety Engineering is made. Coverage of topic areas on fire engineering and teaching hours are compared. Differences in the curricula have been identified and discussed. |
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