Browsing by Author "Charter, Virginia"
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Building a better engineer and rounding out assessment: Student perceptions of their generic skills competency
Charter, Virginia (2019-12)Within higher education engineering programs, there are several stakeholders that are vested in programs success, including students, faculty, and employers. Each of these stakeholders provide a different perspective of ... -
Effect of moisture level in plate thermometer insulation on the measurement of incident radiant heat flux
Jayathunga Mudiyanselage, Lahiru (2020-05)The purpose of the current study was to elucidate the fluctuations of calculated heat fluxes based on two independent conditions of the insulation layers of the plate thermometer (PT). An equation developed using ideal ... -
Experimental and modeling study on the effect of opening location in the under-ventilated compartment fire
Wang, Lujia (2021-05)For compartment fires, a series of reduced-scale experiments and modeling were carried out in order to investigate how and why various opening location affects the compartment fire behaviors included: the temperature inside ... -
Water supply and climate change: The impact of water stress on fire protection systems
Fletcher, Justin (2023-05)Many fire protection systems rely almost entirely on having an adequate water supply to aid in control or suppression of fire. Furthermore, local fire departments also rely on the water supply as a part of their response. ...