Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Disaster Risk Management and Fire Safety - Selected Chapters (17.RDO01)

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Type of studies	Title
Doctoral Academic Studies	Disaster Risk Management and Fire Safety (Godina: 1, Winter)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Upravljanje rizikom od katastrofalnih događaja i požara
Interdisciplinary	Yes
ECTS	10

Educational goal:

The educational goal is that the students of doctoral studies to be introduced into the selected area of disaster risk management and fire safety and to learn the general settings that apply in the subject area.

Educational outcome:

The learning outcomes are the acquisition of knowledge and abilities of students for independent and team-based scientific and research work in the subject area.

Course content:

Survey of research in the areas of disaster risk management (natural disasters and accidents caused by human activity) and fire safety.

Teaching methods:

A mentor and student create a list of selected elective subjects depending on the field of student's field of interest. Lectures are combined. The presentation of the theoretical part is accompanied by appropriate examples that contribute to the clarification of the theoretical part. Regular consultations are held. Through a study and research work student, studying scientific journals and other literature independently deepens the material from the lectures.Working with a teacher, the student is trained for independent writing of scientific paper.

Literature:

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Drysdale, D.	An Introduction to Fire Dynamics	2011	John Wiley & Sons, Ltd	English
Philips, B. D.	Disaster Recovery	2016	CRC Press	English
Donald Hyndman, David Hyndman	Natural Hazards and Disasters	2016	Brooks Cole	English
Fitzgerald, R.W., Meacham, B.J.	Fire Performance Analysis for Buildings	2017	John Wiley & sons, LTD, UK	English
Hurley, M. J., Rosenbaum, E. R.	Performance-Based Fire Safety Design	2015	CRC Press	English
Havbro Faber, M.	Statistics and Probability Theory : In Pursuit of Engineering Decision Support (Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality)	2012	Springer	English
Ramachandran, G., Charters, D.	Quantitative Risk Assessment in Fire Safety	2011	Spon Press, London	English