The UNC Charlotte Fire Protection and Safety Management Program has faculty from different geographic and educational backgrounds, representing the fire science and safety science fields. The program has a variety of equipment available to perform research and teach students how to use them to acquire data.
The Fire Protection Engineering Lab (Smith 304) is facilitated with state-of-the-art apparatuses and equipment that enable fulfilling research projects in different areas including Explosion, Flammability and Toxicity, Fire dynamic, and Structure Fires. (Full descriptions of equipment available here):
- Cone Calorimeter
- FTIR spectrometer
- NBS Smoke Density Chamber
- Environmental Test Chamber
- UL-94 flammability chamber
- Q600 thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA)/differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
- FLIR infrared high-speed camera
- High-end radiation thermometer (pyrometer)
- Various ovens and furnaces
The Occupational Safety Program has a variety of Safety/Industrial Hygiene equipment available for student labs and research projects:
- MultiRAE 4-Gas 10.6 eV Photoionization Detector
- TSI Q-Trak 7545 IAQ Meter
- 3M EARFit Hearing Protection Fit Testing
- Sound Level Meter, Noise Dosimeters
- Heat Stress Monitors
- Radiation Detectors
- Personal Sampling Pumps
- Anemometers, Flow Capture Hood