摩天大楼，公寓大楼，体育场，夜总会，工厂，商店。每天，由于工程师采取措施保护他们免遭火灾，数百万人在这些建筑物中安全地生活，工作和娱乐。尽管这些工程师执行了大部分看不见的任务，但他们的作用至关重要。着火材料性能的专家，他们评估建筑和结构元素的可燃性，烟雾和毒性等特性。由于他们的工作是如此重要，因此具有消防知识的工程师可以在这个快速发展的全球领域中的各种行业中找到工作。他们可以在消防咨询公司，大型消防部门，消防设备和系统制造，研究与测试实验室，保险业，法医调查，政府机构（包括国防部和NASA），医院和医疗机
Skyscrapers, apartment complexes, stadiums, night clubs, factories, stores. Each day, millions of people safely live, work, and play in these buildings due to the measures engineers take to protect them from fire. Although these engineers perform a largely invisible task, their role is vital. Experts in the behavior of materials subjected to fire, they evaluate architectural and structural elements for such properties as flammability, smoke, and toxicity. Because their work is so important, engineers with knowledge of fire can find employment in a wide variety of industries in this rapidly growing global field. They can work in fire protection consulting firms, large fire departments, fire equipment and systems manufacturing, research and testing laboratories, the insurance industry, forensic investigations, government agencies (including the Department of Defense and NASA), hospitals and health care facilities, and the entertainment industry.