Teaching fire science and fire protection engineering to building engineering students

In order to train fire protection engineers, many complete undergraduate and graduate programs in fire science have been developed. However, there are few credit courses that provide a broad overview of fire protection engineering for students in other fields of engineering. This paper describes an introductory course in fire science and fire protection engineering that was developed for building engineering students at Concordia University in Montreal. The process for selecting material for this particular course is discussed, along with the importance of videotape, fire test data, laboratory tours and the internet. The roles of fire libraries and information centres are also discussed, as well as suggestions as to how to improve the course in the future.On a mis au point de nombreux programmes complets de premier et de deuxi\ue8me cycles en science de la s\ue9curit\ue9 incendie dans le but de former des ing\ue9nieurs sp\ue9cialis\ue9s dans ce domaine. Toutefois, il n?existe que peu de cours \ue0 unit\ue9s (cr\ue9dits) qui donnent une vue d?ensemble assez vaste de la technique de la protection contre l?incendie pour les \ue9tudiants d?autres champs d?ing\ue9nierie. Ce document d\ue9crit un cours d?introduction en science de la s\ue9curit\ue9 incendie et en technique de la protection contre l?incendie qui a \ue9t\ue9 mis sur pied pour le b\ue9n\ue9fice des \ue9tudiants en ing\ue9nierie du b\ue2timent de l?Universit\ue9 Concordia, \ue0 Montr\ue9al. On examine le processus de s\ue9lection du mat\ue9riel pour ce cours en particulier, de m\ueame que l?importance des documents vid\ue9o, des donn\ue9es des essais de r\ue9action au feu, des visites guid\ue9es de laboratoire et des sites Internet. On traite \ue9galement des diff\ue9rents r\uf4les que jouent \ue0 cet \ue9gard les biblioth\ue8ques de la s\ue9curit\ue9-incendie et les centres d?information, ainsi que des suggestions d?am\ue9liorations \ue9ventuelles pour le cours.Peer reviewed: NoNRC publication: Ye