Module Title: Fires in Buildings

This module aims to enable the students to understand the fundamental principles underlying fires in buildings, dominant mechanisms controlling spread of fires and fire development in enclosures and buildings, smoke movement and smoke control, fire resistance and fire severity, to characterize the stages of fire development, human behaviour in fires and evacuation, the mechanism of fire suppression agents. This module will help the students to develop engineering skills in designing buildings for fire safety and fire analysis. Through the learning and teaching strategy, the module will also enhance students’ employability skills such as critical thinking, independent research, problem solving and working with others

Module Title: Fire Engineering Solutions

This module concerns the strategic use of fire engineering (and the tactical exploitation and limitations of specific engineering arguments and tools) that lead to the design and implementation of non-prescriptive solutions to fire safety problems in buildings. The first task is to explore the meaning and philosophy of fire engineering, evaluating the drivers and constraints that impact upon an engineered design solution. The second to investigate common techniques and the building services provision that enable these solutions to be implemented.

This module builds on the concepts of heat and mass transfer studies in mechanically biased engineering first degrees. As well as examining accepted strategies for providing fire-safe buildings, the module involves critical evaluation and application of theoretical and empirical models used in modern fire engineering practice, together with a rigorous study of some of the heat and mass transfer mechanisms that underpin those models. In doing this, the opportunity is taken to introduce recent research findings that are expected to influence future practice; and also to engage the student in design activities that challenge them to think innovatively.

Module Title: Computational Fluid Dynamics

The module is designed to provide engineering and science majors with fundamental knowledge and skills of numerical studies of fluid flows. This includes multiphase and reacting flows and combustion. Deep pursued. In addition, numerical programming skills will be developed in order to allow understanding of both numerical and physical aspects of the subject is reengineering of open modules of available CFD software according to the requirements of particular fluid dynamics problems to be solved. Public domain NIST's Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) will be assumed for practical support of this module, however other software, including commercial packages, might be introduced in the future. The computational techniques learned in this course enable students to solve engineering and scientific problems of fluid dynamics, in a broad sense, using modern computational tools.

Module Title: Fire Protection Strategies

This module aims to provide students with knowledge of active and passive fire protection techniques and to develop the ability to apply them in the context of modern buildings and construction projects. Exposure to various strategies that have been accepted and/or rejected and the history of fire safety engineering will help the student develop the ability to assess and/or propose design solutions. This module is intended to equip the non-engineering graduate with key skills and knowledge of protection for fire safety, enabling the graduate to operate alongside fire engineers

Module Title: Risk Assessment and Management

This module aims to enable the students to understand the fundamental principles underlying the concept of risk assessment and its applications. This module is designed to develop student’s competence in qualitative and quantitative methods of risk analysis, probabilistic risk assessment, fire and explosion hazards, fire and explosion risk management and related issues. Through the learning and teaching strategy, the module will enhance students’ employability skills: critical thinking, independent research, problem solving, focusing on main issues, presentations and working with others.

Module Title: Advanced Engineering Design Project

The engineering design project module is designed to provide students with the opportunity to extend and demonstrate engineering design skills both as team members and as individuals. The project will enable students to develop their critical thinking, problem solving and key skills at the post graduate level. The module acts as the vehicle for integrating the study themes of design, ICT and technology, in a practical context.

Module Title: Research Methods

This unit is concerned with research methodology relevant to scientists in both academic and commercial environments. This module will introduce basic aspects of conducting research, reinforced by practical exercises. The aim of the module is to provide the student with transferable career skills that will allow the student to communicate scientific ideas via a variety of media and to manage and plan projects. It will also give insight into some of the legal and ethical issues surrounding scientific work. The module also prepares the students for the Fire Engineering Dissertation module.

Module Title: Advanced Engineering Dissertation

This module aims to provide the students with the opportunity to develop independent research and the ability to present a coherent, critical account of the work and how it relates to that of others. On an individual basis the student will be required to carry out an in-depth study involving theoretical, computational, experimental or investigative analysis, or a combination of these. Through the learning and teaching strategy, the module will also enhance students’ employability skills such as written communication skills, independent planning, execution and dissemination of research outcomes.