I acquired professional knowledge in fire field and gained a lot hands-on skill through the computation fluid dynamic design project during the two-year study. Besides, City U Scope had provided opportunity to me for explore to learn more performance-based design and the capabilities and limitations of advanced modelling methodologies for structures and fire from the tutorial classes and professor’s sharing.

Also, my heartfelt gratitude goes out to our CityU SCOPE module leaders, lecturers, and tutors, who provided us with constructive criticism and helpful advise throughout our program. A number of comprehensive and systematic techniques to teach us how to resolve fire engineering problems more efficiently by providing numerous practical examples and sharing recommendations from their personal experiences and working practices.

I believe I can make use of my technological capacity and knowledgeable thinking for the substantial development of fire service profession.

The postgraduate programme enlightens us another kind of learning technique. We practice with the range of solution methods with numerous knowledges in the class, we shall analysis the conditions and making decisions to create the path for ourselves during the postgraduate learning, especially dissertation research. With the rapid development of the society, fire safety engineering is a great necessary and development in Hong Kong, the programme is continuing improvement with new safety regulations and techniques. I would also like to thank the supporting of professors throughout my education. After the completion of postgraduate programme, we can apply the technique to the fire safety design principle for any buildings, railway, and infrastructure, and advice our further employment and development.

感謝SCOPE讓我有一個機會對於消防安全工程有更加深入的認識; SCOPE的導師擁有豐富的消防安全工程經驗,更加來自不同的持份者,例如教授,顧問,承建商,前消防隊長等等. 他們的經驗分享讓我在學習和工作中獲益良多. 而SCOPE的課程設計由淺入深, 循序漸進, 一環扣一環, 讓學生可以在一個適合的節奏中學習. 對我來說其中一個最大得著,讓我了解香港消防法例法規背後所蘊含的意義, 而不是盲目應用.

In these pandemic years Cityu SCOPE did the best to arrange face-to-face class as possible to allow more chances to interact with our tutors in class. Apart from high effectiveness to achieve our learning outcomes, online classes mostly given by foreign professors allow more flexibility in time especially after a day’s work for most part time students. Teachers in MSc in Fire Safety Engineering provide us down-to-earth teaching to students as they are either experienced academic scholars or professionals who were formerly working in government authority or engineering consultancy. The course has us understand the root and basis of the fire safety concept behind our daily use authority guideline or code of practice. Specific topics such as risk assessment and CFD have depthen my view in fire engineering. Learning outcomes designed by the course allow us to be better equipped to cope with increasing expectations for fire safety knowledge in upcoming construction projects. The course provides us opportunities of networking and experience sharing with students throughout the study as most of us are recently working in construction / fire safety related industries.

As working in the construction industry, studying this programme can learn the fire safety information and understand the design purpose of buildings. There are some case studies in the courses allowing students to discuss and use software to simulate and analyze the results, the tutors will comment and provide suggestions to us which help understanding the theory and regulation. The tutors are also willing to spend extra time to answer questions and teach the method of using simulation software because some of the students have not studied BEng fire engineering before. The support from tutors can motivate the learning and better understand the knowledge so that I can apply it into my work which benefits my career.

香港有很多高樓大廈，需要不同類型消防安全設備去保障人命安全。課程內容著重教授學術研究的技巧，包括如何思考，設計及進行海報論文及畢業論文，為我提供升學進修需要的學術基礎。這個消防安全課程不僅可以幫助學生建立工程科學基礎，講師亦會透過功課習作培養學生的創意，分析及解決問題的能力藉此提升事業發展競爭。

Most of us are working adults, it’s really challenging in balancing both work and study at the same time. Indeed, it’s exhausting but we never stop to learn. Though we are from different backgrounds, we share the same belief that knowledge is power, knowledge will change the world.    The course is well-structured and comprehensive for those with or without engineering backgrounds. It equipped us with the theory of developing fire engineering solution through scientific research methodology and modern computational tools. It exposed us to the practical real life experiences which are precious for our future work. Not to mention, it sharpened up our presentation skills, writing skills and problem solving skills. With that said, I believe we are ready to face challenges ahead. We could apply what we gained here to contribute back to society and make Hong Kong the safest city in the world. It’s not easy, but we will eventually achieve it step by step.

This programme focuses on the fire science as well as influence of fire upon human in built environment. I found that this programme is very practical since fire was studied in different extent theoretically and experimentally. We not only learnt the knowledge from papers, but also were able to visualize fire size and flame height. Furthermore, we had a chance to test the sprinkler performance to check the water distribution during water discharge. Field visit at heritage buildings after revitalization was definitely one of my favourites of this programme, in which we were able to verify the fire protection design in real life with the items listed in codes. Last but not least, I made a lot of friends who are also working in the same industry from this programme.

我現時現職於機電工程公司，希望了解更多消防安全工程的知識，因此在朋友的介紹下，報讀了SCOPE的「消防安全工程理學碩士學位課程」。 課程中，最令我印象難忘的是與英國院校同步進行實驗，透過網上平台，兩地實時觀察實驗，並取得數據，研究火焰在不同物料下燃燒的速度及擴散的情況。