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Dr. Virginia Charter is an Associate Professor and Program Coordinator for the Fire Protection and Safety Engineering Technology at Oklahoma State University. She obtained her BS in FPSET from OSU, her MS in Fire Protection Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and her PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies – Higher Education.Prior to returning to OSU, she practiced as a consulting and design engineer for nine years in Las Vegas, Nevada. She has worked on many of the infamous Strip properties planning for and evaluation of fire protection, life safety, and risk control systems. Her research is focused on areas that impact fire protection system effectiveness, building and fire codes and standards, and engineering education.She is a licensed professional engineer in Nevada, California, and Oklahoma. She is a member of the American Society of Engineering Educators. She serves as an alternate member of several standard committees, including NFPA 13, NFPA 20, and NFPA 101. She currently sits on the UL Fire Council, is an SFPE Foundation Governor, and Chairs the Higher Education sub-committee to the Society of Fire Protection Engineers Professional Qualifications Committee. She is a Fellow member in SFPE.
Ken has more than 45 years of fire protection engineering consulting experience. He recently retired from Performance Design Technologies, Inc, where he was co-founder and serves as President. He is a Fellow and a Past-President of SFPE. He has served on and chaired several NFPA committees including Initiating Devices on NFPA 72 and Non-nuclear Power Plants (NFPA 850, 852). He also served on the NFPA Risk Methods committee. He has championed the cause of applying risk-informed, performance-based fire protection engineering to achieving and maintaining fire safe facilities and operations in our rapidly changing world. Ken received his BS from the University of Maryland and his MS from the University of Tennessee.
Dr. Francisco Joglar is
a Senior Consultant with experience in the fields of fire risk assessment,
fire modeling and uncertainty analysis. Since 2001, he has been researching and consulting in fire protection
engineering and probabilistic risk assessment for the commercial nuclear
industry, energy and military applications for the US Government and selected
other industries. In the research area, he has been developing fire
protection and fire risk technology for
the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and supporting joint
research projects between EPRI and the US NRC Office of Research. In
the consulting area, he has participated in numerous modeling and risk
projects in various capacities including fire risk analyst, technical lead,
project manager, and technical oversight. |