Jim Milke is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Fire Protection Engineering at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland with an emphasis in structures. He received an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and a B.S. degree in Fire Protection Engineering both from the University of Maryland. In addition, he has a B.S. degree in Physics from Ursinus College.
Prof. Milke has served as a Research Fire Prevention Engineer at the Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, as the Fire Protection Engineer for Fairfax County, Virginia and as a consultant to numerous organizations. Prof. Milke is a fellow of the SFPE and is a member of the National Fire Protection Association, International Association of Fire Safety Science and American Society of Civil Engineers. He is chairman of the NFPA Technical Committee on Smoke Management Systems and the ASCE/SFPE committee on Structural Design for Fire Conditions. He was a member of the Core Team of the World Trade Center Building Performance Study.
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