Fire Safety (Engineering) BSc (Hons) Top-up

Our fire safety engineering top-up programme is ideal if you are an engineer aiming for a senior role after graduation in safety design or want to become a fire safety engineer. 

If you’re an engineer qualified to Higher National or Foundation Degree level and are seeking to develop expertise in the application of scientific, engineering and technological principles and tools to resolve design problems in fire and fire safety applications, then this top-up course is for you.

The design and safety of buildings for industrial and commercial use is becoming more complex due to the ever increasing awareness of health and safety needs in the working environment, so the ability to solve the problems of fire prevention and control is ever increasing.

Why study with us

• An Industrial Liaising Committee inputs to this course. This involves leading fire safety engineering and management companies, and Fire and Rescue Services.
• Benefit from significant investment in the latest high quality equipment and facilities available through our new Euro 35 million Engineering Innovation Centre.
• International opportunities include travel and work placement with ‘Operation Florian’ which is a charitable organisation working to improve fire service infrastructures.

What you'll do

• Benefit from potential exchange visits - we have partner colleges/universities in the Middle-East and Hong Kong where English is widely spoken.
• Our direct links to industry enable you to work on live, real-world projects with commercial partners in state-of-the-art facilities.
• The course is taught by staff which include research academics from the fields of fire safety engineering and fire chemistry as well as fire professionals with many years of experience.

Compulsory modules
These modules are set and you have to study these as part of your course.

Enclosure Fire Dynamics

• On this module you'll gain an understanding of enclosure fire and the dominant mechanisms in controlling them. It will explore the range of relationships, solutions and models used in the design of buildings for fire safety and investigations. You'll also build on your employability skills, including independent working, analysis, problem solving, presentations and working with others.

Fire Protection Engineering

• This module aims to develop your skills in numerical analyses. You will evaluate different appropriate fire protection applications.

Fire Investigation

• This module will develop your ability to investigate a fire to meet the needs of officials. You will learn to recognize the scene, patterns, indicators, and dynamics of fire development. You will gain an insight into the fire setter's motives and characteristics. The module emphasises on the recovery and analysis of evidence and the conclusions that can be drawn from the analytical results. You will understand the investigation structure and management of mass fatality incidents as well as small premises.

Hazards and Risk Management

• We aim for you to understand, apply, and critically evaluate techniques of hazard and risk management and produce and defend professional quality reports on real risk management policy.

Engineering Design Project

• This module will develop your engineering design skills both as a team member and as an individual. You will develop your critical thinking, problem solving and key skills in case studies.

Engineering Dissertation

• You'll carry out an independent study of theoretical, computational, experimental or investigative analysis, or a combination. By the end of this module, you will have enhanced your research, communication and evaluation skills.

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.

Future careers

• Graduates from Fire Safety (Engineering) have entered leading fire engineering consulting firms such as, Buro Happold, ARUP, Warrington Exova and various Fire and Rescue Services around the UK and internationally. 

Applicants who are interested in taught postgraduate studies will be able to continue on MSc Fire Safety Engineering or MSc Fire and Rescue Service Management.

Applicants who are interested in research will be able to continue MPhil/PhD studies with the Centre in Fire and Hazards in areas of fire and explosion safety engineering, fire modelling, computational fluid dynamics and others.