James A. Milke has been a member of the faculty since 1977 and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. His areas of expertise are smoke management and response analysis of materials exposed to fire conditions. He has served as a research fire prevention engineer at the Center for Fire Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, as the fire protection engineer for Fairfax, Virginia and as a consultant to several other organizations. His research interests include formulation of calculation methods to estimate the fire resistance of structural member, analysis of smoke management systems, experimental evaluations of the performance of water mist systems and development of a prototype of a smart fire detector.

Frederick Mowrer is an Associate Professor. He joined the faculty of the Department of Fire Protection Engineering in 1987 after receiving his Ph.D. degree in Fire Protection Engineering and Combustion Science from the University of California , Berkeley . Dr. Mowrer received a B.S. degree in Fire Protection and Safety Engineering (1976) from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a M.S. degree in Engineering (1981) from the University of California , Berkeley .

Dr. Mowrer is a registered Fire Protection Engineer in the State of California . He has worked as a consultant for an international fire protection engineering firm and as an engineering representative for an insurance organization. Dr. Mowrer has served as a technical consultant and as an expert witness on a number of major fires. Dr. Mowrer served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers from 1995 to 2003, including a term as President of the Society in 2002, and is an active member of the National Fire Protection Association. Dr. Mowrer is a Fellow in the Society of Fire Protection Engineers.

Dr. Mowrer's primary research interests include measurement of the contribution and response of products and materials to fire, mathematical fire modeling, building fire safety analysis and design, and analytical fire reconstruction. Dr. Mowrer has published papers on all these topics. He has received the Harry C. Bigglestone Award for excellence in written communication of fire protection concepts from the NFPA on three occasions.

Douglas J. Carpenter has been vice president and principal engineer of Combustion Science and Engineering, Inc. since 1998. He is a leader in applying quantitative tools to the investigation of fires and the design of buildings. He has developed and taught classes and seminars in fire investigation, computer fire modeling and performance-based fire safety design for the Society of Fire Protection Engineers and the International Council of Building Officials. Prior to joining CSE, he worked for the Office of Polar Programs at the National Science Foundation and Hughes Associates, Inc. He received a M.S. in fire protection engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute completing a thesis on using computational fluid dynamics to model room fires.

Steven Gwynne, Adjunct Faculty, Ph.D. Mathematical Modeling of Human Behavior, University of Greenwich. He is a Senior Scientist, specializing in people movement and egress simulation at Hughes Associates, Inc. and has been involved in investigating and simulating people movement for a decade.

Morgan J. Hurley, P.E. is the Technical Director of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, where he manages the technical activities of the Society. He received a Bachelor's degree in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1990, and a Master's degree in the same discipline in 2000. Mr. Hurley is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Virginia. Since joining the staff of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers in 1998, Mr. Hurley has focused on developing the technical infrastructure to facilitate performance-based design. Mr. Hurley is a member of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, the National Society of Professional Engineers and the National Fire Protection Association.

David J. Icove, Ph.D., P.E., CFEI. An internationally recognized forensic fire engineering expert with over 35 years of experience, Dr. Icove is coauthor of Combating Arson-for-Profit, the leading textbook on the crime of economic arson, and Forensic Fire Scene Reconstruction, the first textbook on the application of fire protection engineering principles to the forensic reconstruction and analysis of fire scenes. He has also served as a principal member of the NFPA 921 Technical Committee on Fire Investigations since 1992. As a retired Federal law enforcement agent, Dr. Icove served over his career as a criminal investigator on the federal, state, and local levels. His expertise in forensic fire scene reconstruction is based on a blend of on-scene experience, conduction of fire tests and experiments, and participation in prison interviews of convicted arsonists and bombers. He has testified as an expert witness in civil and criminal trials, as well as before U.S. Congressional Committees seeking guidance on key arson investigation and legislative initiatives. Dr. Icove holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from The University of Tennessee. He also holds a B.S. degree in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland-College Park. He is presently Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; an Adjunct Faculty member at the Department of Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland; and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the States of Tennessee and Virginia. He is a Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator.

Marc L. Janssens is director of the Department of Fire Technology at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. He has more than 70 publications in journals, books and conference proceedings, in an associate editor for Fire and Materials and serves as First Vice Chairman of ASTM Committee EO5 on Fire Standards. Dr. Janssens also serves as an adjunct associate professor and teaches in the Distance Education Fire Safety Engineering Technology Program at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. He received a M.S. in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in fire protection engineering from the University of Ghent.

Francisco Joglar, P.E. is a Fire Risk Engineer at SAIC and conducts fire modeling and fire risk training for FPEs working in nuclear plants and federal government inspectors for the commerical nuclear power industry. Dr. Joglar received his Ph.D. in Reliability and Fire Risk and M.S. in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland. He also has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico.

David A. Purser, Adjunct Faculty, Ph.D. Neurophysiology, University of Birmingham. Retired from Building Research Establishment, LTD. as Director of Research Programs for Fire and Risk Sciences Division, he now consults and teaches in the fields related to toxicology, environmental hazards and human behavior in emergencies.

Richard J. Roby has been president and technical director of Combustion Science and Engineering, Inc. since 1998. He serves as the project manager for a variety of experimental and analytical combustion and fire science research and development projects. Dr. Roby recently earned a patent for the development of an advanced fire detector that combines conventional smoke detection and CO detections. Prior to joining CSE, he served as Director of Combustion Research at Hughes Associates, Inc. where he developed and led the company's combustion research and development efforts. Dr. Roby was a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Maryland from 1986 to 1992 and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the thermal-fluid sciences. He received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 1988.

Eric R. Rosenbaum, P.E. is the Director of Architectural & Engineering Services at Hughes Associates, Inc. and has 20 years experience providing fire protection engineering services. He is a registered Fire Protection Engineer (FPE) in New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Florida, Maryland, California, Colorado and the District of Columbia. In 2000, Mr. Rosenbaum received the SFPE's Hat's Off Award for his leadership of the Task Group that developed The SFPE Guide to Performance Based Design. He has recently authored articles regarding the use of performance based design in code equivalency, recent advancements in smoke control and smoke management, and safeguarding historical structures from fire and other natural hazards. Mr. Rosenbaum received both his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a member of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying, Society of Fire Protection Engineers (Co-Chair of the SFPE Research Committee), National Fire Protection Association (Member of the Means of Egress Committee), Salamander Fire Protection Engineering Honorary Society, and Tau Beta Pi Association, a National Engineering Honor Society. He has prior experience providing overseas services for the Department of State. As Principal-in-Charge, Mr. Rosenbaum will concentrate his efforts to maintain quality design control and code compliance assurance on all levels.