Fire Protection Engineering Student

[Hereandthere]

I'm currently an Undergrad student at Montgomery College studying FIre Protection Engineering. I plan on transferring to U of Md for the rest of my undergraduate studies and I was wondering a few things. First off, does anyone know of any other schools besides WPI and UMD that offer Graduate programs in Fire Protection Engineering? Second, does anyone know of any companies or groups that design, build, and maintain suppression systems for space craft or buildings designed for environments unsuitable for human life (i.e. buildings for the lunar surface or mars)? Thank you all for your help.

[Saint of Quench]

MD and WPI are the only schools that really offer the graduate programs in fire protection engineering as far as I can recall. The Coast Guard academy also offers the undergraduate course in FPE, but you have to join the Academy to get it that way. Most other local colleges offer the Fire Science program only and it is a far different track. You can take the fire science track and have a lot more institutions to choose from than you can with an engineering degree. Its what makes fire protection engineering stand out because there are so few true programs for it around.

NASA is the only organization that I know of currently that takes care of those "specialized" cases that you were describing. They work with contract companies, but the information is not usually available to the general public. I believe you have to go through educational institutions and NAA itself to figure out who runs these programs. One of my old professors at UMD worked on the vomit comet doing zero gravity fire experiments for NASA.