Dr. Vytenis (Vyto) Babrauskas

About the Tutor:

Dr Babrauskas was the first person to ever receive a Ph.D. degree in Fire Protection Engineering. He headed the fire test method development programs at NIST for 16 years before becoming a consultant.

Vyto has taught graduate-level engineering courses at the University of British Columbia and at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has given hundreds of lectures and presentations and is the author of over 250 papers on fire safety. He is the Author of the authortative Ignition Handbook and Heat Release in Fire, he is also the U.S. editor for Fire Safety Journal.

In recent years, he has been regularly teaching classes to fire investigators on fire science principles.

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