The Start
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.
The Goal
We aim to promote the practice by connecting and empowering professionals in and around the fire protection community. We 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 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 facilities 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 from 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. 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.
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Early in college I was introduced to fire protection and have hardly looked back. There's something about a building where everyone else (architects, owners, occupants, other engineers) are wildly enamored with the way it operates 99.999% of the time.
We operate in the small window of time when design is reversed and a building becomes an active, living dynamic challenge with a very real threat of fire, and I find that fascinating. We are in this business because there's such a strong pull to do something that matters, and fire protection matters.
I'm thrilled you are here and are a part of our story.
We operate in the small window of time when design is reversed and a building becomes an active, living dynamic challenge with a very real threat of fire, and I find that fascinating. We are in this business because there's such a strong pull to do something that matters, and fire protection matters.
I'm thrilled you are here and are a part of our story.
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