NIST FIRE RESEARCH RESOURCES FOR DISTANCE LEARNING FEATURED AT NATIONAL FIRE ACADEMY HIGHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE.In June 2000, Fire on the Web was demonstrated for more than 100 attendees at the Second Annual Fire & Emergency Services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' Higher Education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. conference held at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, MD. Conference attendees included educators from over 65 different universities, colleges, community colleges, and state fire academies. The purpose of the conference was to begin development of a standardized fire science degree curriculum. Fire on the Web provides educators and students with access to a number of valuable NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. resources for distance learning programs. These include 60 000 references to the fire literature, experimental fire data, and fire models. NISTIR NISTIR National Institute of Standards and Technology Interagency Report NISTIR National Institute of Standards and Technology Internal Report 6510, which is a compact disc (CD) based report of a fire recreation, also was displayed at the conference. This CD includes the computer-generated color animations of model simulations as well as the full text of the report. A video tape that featured three flashover flash·o·ver n. 1. An unintended electric arc, as between two pieces of apparatus. 2. The temperature point at which the heat in an area or region is high enough to ignite all flammable material simultaneously. scenarios was utilized to demonstrate the type of fire experiments conducted at NIST for which information is available. NISTs presentation was taped for later broadcast over EENet, a broadcast network operated by the U.S. Fire Academy to provide state-of-the-art learning-at-a-distance programs to fire departments via satellite. |
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