A Movement for Better Fire Protection
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Why can't we spend more time doing the things that help our business instead of laboring within it? Why does software cost as much as my car? Why should large corporations be the only parties equipped with the quickest tools? This is the anthem for the freelancer, the rookie, the up-and-comer, the inspector, the cubicle champion, and the self-driven trailblazer. You already care about doing great work. What if you could do it faster, and with quality tools that help make informed decisions? MeyerFire.com was created to help you excel as an expert and leader in fire protection. This is our anthem. Join the movement for better fire protection. |
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The Goal
The aim of MeyerFire is to promote the practice by connecting and empowering professionals in and around the fire protection community. I hope to do so by providing high-quality, highly visual educational content and resources unlike anywhere else in the fire protection industry.
About Joe
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Joe Meyer is a licensed Fire Protection Engineer and author who has a passion for the industry. He works primarily in fire sprinkler, standpipe, and clean agent system design for a variety of projects with an Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Fire Protection and Structural engineering consulting firm in St. Louis, Missouri.
He graduated from the University of Kansas in Architectural Engineering and then the University of Maryland in Fire Protection Engineering. Before starting a fire protection group at his current employer Joe worked in fire alarm, sprinkler, standpipe, and clean agent design for a large MEP firm in Kansas City. He served as the President of the Missouri-Kansas Chapter of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers from 2015-2016, currently serves on the University of Kansas Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Advisory Board, and has taught at the University of Kansas covering ARCE 664 Fire Protection Engineering. He has published a leading prep guide for Fire Protection PE Exam and created the MeyerFire Toolkit, an all-inclusive collection of design tools specifically for fire sprinkler designers and engineers. |
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I am fairly passionate about a small handful of things in my life. My family, baseball, and fire protection have to be right there at the top of the list.
Early in college I was introduced to fire protection and never looked back. I find something fascinating about helping save lives through automatic systems during such a rare and small window of time where fires happen. We are in this business because there's such a strong importance in doing something that matters, and fire protection matters.
I'm thrilled you are here and are a part of this story.
I'm thrilled you are here and are a part of this story.
MeyerFire Beginnings
In preparing for the Fire Protection P.E. Exam, I felt a little overwhelmed. There were over 6,000 pages of material to review and an array of calculations I needed to understand on topics which I didn't even have any experience. I struggled initially even to find what review material existed, much less to find quality review materials to prepare for the exam.
All I really wanted was to know what helpful material existed and what information was critical for the exam. For three months I delayed even doing practice problems and instead scoured all of the required references to create a comprehensive cheatsheet that I could use as a table of contents/quick reference/formula sheet to save time on the exam itself (this later became the beginnings of the PE Prep Guide).
After taking the exam, I quickly realized that our fire protection niche has left many others with that same feeling of having to blaze-their-own-trail to study for the exam. This site was built to combat that struggle by (1) identifying what helpful material exists, (2) building a community for collaboration, and (3) to save very precious time in preparing and taking the exam. This effort started to help answer that call.
Following the exam, I created a blog to offer visual takeaways gathered in my journey as an engineer. I've found that the best way to learn and grow is to research, ask, and share information and the blog found here is intended to offer exactly as much.
All I really wanted was to know what helpful material existed and what information was critical for the exam. For three months I delayed even doing practice problems and instead scoured all of the required references to create a comprehensive cheatsheet that I could use as a table of contents/quick reference/formula sheet to save time on the exam itself (this later became the beginnings of the PE Prep Guide).
After taking the exam, I quickly realized that our fire protection niche has left many others with that same feeling of having to blaze-their-own-trail to study for the exam. This site was built to combat that struggle by (1) identifying what helpful material exists, (2) building a community for collaboration, and (3) to save very precious time in preparing and taking the exam. This effort started to help answer that call.
Following the exam, I created a blog to offer visual takeaways gathered in my journey as an engineer. I've found that the best way to learn and grow is to research, ask, and share information and the blog found here is intended to offer exactly as much.
Feedback about MeyerFire.com
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"I really enjoy practicing for the exam with your daily questions." - Mike
"Thank you for providing this blog. It's a wonderful tool for many persons!" - Janet "I appreciate the resources that you have made available for the FPE Exam. They were a tremendous help in my preparation and I will be using the Meyer Fire Exam Prep Guide during the exam." - Robert "Again, your website, PE prep guide, and blog updates have been a huge help for me to prepare for the exam. Many thanks." - Kyle "Thanks for creating this website. It's very helpful. " - Robert "Thank you. You have done great." - Frank |
"Thank you so much for putting together the review questions and also the guidebook - I am looking forward to getting this past me and appreciate what you have done for the industry." - Todd
"I've been diligently studying using both your prep book and daily questions. They've really helped me increase the speed and accuracy of finding the correct equation and variables to answer the questions. Your book is the best study prep I've found so far. Thanks again!" - Justin "You have done a great job with the Prep Manual and website. " - Jim "The daily sample problems have been great and I have liked the ability to comment when there has been an issue." - Matt |
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