Volume , Issue February 2021

Speaker: Bryan Hoskins, Ph.D., P.E.

Organization: Oklahoma State University - Fire Protection & Safety Engineering Technology

Topic: Achieving Intelligibility for ECS

Location: Virtual – Teams

Times: 5:30 – Business Meeting

6PM – 7PM – Technical Presentation

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Chapter Officers

President: Rob Plonski

(505)-660-1057 Robert.Plonski@nnsa.doe.gov

Vice-President: Steve Waidelich (410)-500-2234

skwaidelich@gmail.com

Secretary:

Ralph Foster (803)-315-1549

Ralph@FosterEngr.com

Treasurer: Eric Mondor (813)-810-9573

Eric@FosterEngr.com

Past President:

Rob Hanson (410)-877-5032

RobHanson@YourFPE.com

Inside this issue:

President’s Corner 1

Treasurer’s Report 2

Meeting Minutes 2

SFPE News 3

SFPE News 4

Chapter Sponsors 5

A Decade of Excellence

2005—2020 Recipient of

SFPE Gold Level

Chapter Excellence Award

SOCIETY OF FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEERS

Greet ings f rom Your President

NEXT MEEING: TUESDAY, February 16th

A publication of the CSRA SFPE Chapter - Rob Plonski, Editor

Friends and Family af CSRA,

As a chapter, we had committed to finding presentations this year that are in alignment with the SFPE Core Competencies. In case you don’t remember, we sent out a survey in August, asking which topics you-all wanted presentations on (back to the basics). We started the year with an overview of these com-petencies and your VP, Steve Waidelich, has been doing a fantastic job lining

up presenters month-after-month.

Last month, Steve was able to get Professor Francisco Joglar to present on fire risk technologies in performance-based design; this month, Dr. Bryan Hoskins on intelligibility. Dr. Hoskins is a fellow Maryland grad (Go Terps!), an Assistant Professor at OSU, and serves on NFPA 101 and NFPA 72. I don’t know how Steve is able to schedule such high caliber speakers and tech-

nical topics, but I’m really glad he does! Thank You Steve!

As I mentioned in past meetings, we are in the process of finalizing the SFPE Chapter Excellence

Award. The officers are going to meet up on Saturday, February 20th, to finalize our submission to

SFPE International. At that meeting, we are also going to be discussing nominations for our next slate

of officers. Traditionally, our chapter votes for incumbents in April and we finish out the year with the

Order of The Engineer ceremony, so keep an eye out for more details as we hone-in on how and

when we will bring our chapter year to an end. If you’d like to volunteer and help out with any of

these efforts, including stepping up for any of the officer positions, please reach out and let one of us

know!

I’m looking forward to seeing all of you again, at least virtually, on the 16th!

Cheers

- Rob

Officer and Committee Reports Meeting Minutes From December – motion and ap-

prove December Treasury Report in Newsletter – motion and

approve Old Business No old business. Submitted $600 to SFPE Educational & Scientific

Foundation (Jack Smeck is taking lead on this)

Deliverables from the team will be sent out to judg-es Tues. Jan 26 for review. (Emailed to judges who register)

A 1st, 2nd, 3rd place determination is due by 2 PM Sat. Jan. 30

Deliverables will include: Essay response to our three “special

award” questions A video presentation of the student’s mod

el A Powerpoint explaining features of the

student’s model New Business We SFPE Chapter Excellence Award metric pretty

much the same as previous years New Publication: The Sprinkler Hydraulics: A Guide to

Fire System Hydraulic Calculations, 3rd edition by

Harold S. Wass Jr and updated by Russ Fleming is now available.

2021 SFPE North American Conference (Nov 8-10) and Seminars (Nov 11-13)

SC Engineering Conference & Trade Show in June 2021

Social Event (Spring) Ambassadors for CSRA-SFPE to attend another chap-

ters virtual meeting? Ralph Foster is the most active Philadelphia chapter – partnering with them to share

speakers. Steve Waidelich has lead on this Speaker – Francisco Joglar Applications of Fire Risk Technology as a Performance

Based Alternative Francisco is one of the foremost experts on Fire

Risk Analysis (helped with EPRI/NRC); also leads the SFPE Fire Risk Task Group to update the fire risk guide

Professional Qualifications Committee (Working on

Performance Based Design Task Group to define Qualifications)

Respectively Submitted

Rob Plonski

February 2021

Treasurer’s Report for February 2021—Eric Mondor

Balances as of 02/12/2021:

Checking: $1,763.68

Savings: $4,925.52

Credit: ($0.00)

Petty Cash: $50.00

Total: $6,739.20

Active Members: 28

Income: $1,480.16

Expenses:

Website: $556.20

SFPE Foundation: $600.00 Future City Sponsor: $300.00

Credit card fees: $43.11

Total: $1,499.31

January 19th

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