Professor P. J. Pagni Awarded Howard W. Emmons Lectureship

 

Professor Patrick J. Pagni has been awarded The Howard W. Emmons Lectureship and will present the plenary lecture at the Seventh International Symposium on Fire Safety Science in June 2002 in Boston.

This award was established at The Howard Emmons' Fire Research Conference "Fire Science for Fire Safety" in 1983. The list of recipients includes:


Table 1.  Howard W. Emmons Invited Plenary Lectureships

Lecture	Date	IAFSS Symposia	Awardee	Title
1	1984	NBS Conf.	J. deRis	A Scientific Approach to Flame Radiation and Material Flammability
2	1985	1	E.E. Zukoski	Fluid Dynamic Aspects of Room Fires
3	1986	NBS Conf.	J.G. Quintiere	State of Fire Research and Safety
4	1988	2	K. Kawagoe	Real Fire and Fire Modeling
5	1991	3	P. Thomas	Fire, Flames and Dimensional Analysis
6	1994	4	O. Pettersson	Rational Structural Fire Engineering Design, Based on Simulated Real Fire Exposure
7	1997	5	T. Jin	Studies on Human Behavior and Tenability in Fire Smoke
8	1999	6	Y. Hasemi	Diffusion Flame Modeling as a Basis for the Rational Fire Safety Design of Built Environments
9	2002	7	P.J. Pagni	Thermal Glass Breakage

The qualifications to receive this award are:

The ideal lecturer will emulate the outstanding research qualities and contributions to fire science of the person in whose honor the award is named. In particular, the committee will seek those of high repute who have combined technical excellence with practical and humanitarian application in the selection and execution of their research topics. A prime criterion is that the recipient's contributions be widely recognized for their innovation and significance. No restriction is made regarding the area of expertise within fire research.