Fire-Prevention & Protection Engineers
Research causes of fires, determine fire protection methods, and design or recommend materials or equipment such as structural components or fire-detection equipment to assist organizations in safeguarding life and property against fire, explosion, and related hazards.
Also called: Engineer, Fire Protection Engineer, Loss Control Manager, Senior Engineer
Knowledge:
Engineering and Technology
- product and service development
- design
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
- physics
Skills:
- thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- notice when problems happen
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- see hidden patterns
- quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.
They do well at jobs that need
- Integrity
- Attention to Detail
- Analytical Thinking
- Dependability
- Cooperation
- Initiative
Technology:
Analytical or scientific software
- A Large Outdoor Fire plume Trajectory model Flat Terrain ALOFT-FT
- Berkeley Algorithm for Breaking Window Glass in a Compartment Fire BREAK1
Computer aided design CAD software
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Autodesk Revit
