Deadline: March 4, 2022
Guidelines for Presentation Abstracts
We invite presentation proposals for the 2022 SFPE Annual Conference and Expo. To help us with planning, we ask that you please indicate into which of the following track topics your proposed presentation best fits by identifying the topics in the left “Tracks” column. We have listed some preferred topics in the right column on which we are encouraging submissions.
| Tracks |
Preferred Topics |
| Human Behavior & Evacuation Modelling |
Demographics: Vulnerable Populations; Cultural Differences; Anthropometry |
| Evacuation strategies, estimating RSET and evacuation modeling |
| Toxicity assessment |
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| Building Fire/Building Design |
Revit and 3D Building Design (BIM) |
| Existing and Historical Buildings |
| High-Rise Building Design/Mass Timber/Facades |
| PBD and Probabilistic Approaches to Fire Protection Design |
| Commissioning and Maintaining Complex Buildings and Life Safety Systems |
| Structural Fire Protection Engineering |
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| Resiliency/Sustainability |
Environmental impact of fire and fire suppression systems |
| Impact of Climate Change on Fire Safety |
| Evaluation of life expectancy for fire protection systems |
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| Fire Dynamics |
Practical models for: extinction and reignition; under ventilated combustion; glass breakage; deflagrations/detonations |
| Large compartment fires |
| Estimating Design Fires and ASET |
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| Fire Service |
Smart Firefighting: IoT integration; mechanical augmentation; fire department communication with BIM |
| Wildfire/Urban Fire Fighting |
| Fire Detection and Communication with Emergency Planning Process |
| Emergency Responder Radio Communication Systems |
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| Fire Safety Systems |
Impact of ITM on requirements for system reliability
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| Protecting Storage with modern materials/Automated Storage Occupancies |
| New Systems and Technology |
| Risk-Based Approach to Achieving Acceptable Safety |
| Lithium-Ion Battery Protection |
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| Forensics/Investigations |
Improved guidance for quantifying measurement and calculation uncertainty |
| Persistence of burn patterns under different compartment conditions |
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| “New Normal” |
FPE industry dealing with COVID/post-COVID |
| Emerging Hazards (hydrogen, Li-Ion, Cannabis Extraction, etc.) or Wildfire Hazards |
| New Technologies/Smart Technology/BIM |
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| Professional Practice |
Business & Ownership in Consulting |
| Engineering Ethics and Responsibility of the FPE |
| Licensures and Credentialing of FPEs |
| Navigating Roles evolving roles of FPEs, Insurers, and Architects within the regulatory system |
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Presentation abstracts should provide sufficient detail regarding scope, results, and applications to determine the quality and applicability of the engineering concepts that would be presented. If your presentation is accepted, the description you provide below will be used for marketing the event and published in the conference program. Additional supplementary references beyond the listed word count may be included. Presentations must be noncommercial in nature. Total presentation time would be 25 minutes, comprised of 20 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for questions and answers.
The conference is scheduled to be held in person on October 12-14, 2022, in Detroit, Michigan at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center Hotel.
More information on SFPE Conferences can be found here.
Application must be filled out completely to be considered.
Presenter
Prefix (Mr./Ms./Mx.):
Name:
Suffix (Jr./Sr.):
Designation (PhD, FSFPE, PE, PEng):
Job Title:
Company:
E-Mail:
Phone:
Bio (This is what will be published. No more than 200 words):
Co-Presenter
Prefix (Mr./Ms./Mx.):
Name:
Suffix (Jr./Sr.,):
Designation (PhD, FSFPE, PE, PEng):
Job Title:
Company:
E-Mail:
Phone:
Bio (This is what will be published. No more than 200 words):
Presentation Title:
Presentation Abstract:
Learning Objectives (provide details on what will be presented and learning takeaways for attendees):
Presentation Summary (no more than 200 words, if selected this will be used for promotion and published in the program):
Submit Abstracts with a digital headshot of the presenters to: tsalmonponder@sfpe.org no later than March 4, 2022.
Thank you for your interest and support!