News of the Northern California-Nevada Chapter of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers











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2006/2007 Scholarship Information

The Northern California/Nevada Chapter of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers is offering our annual scholarship for the 2006/2007 school year. This scholarship can be up to $1000.00, and the recipient must be from the San Francisco Bay Area and plan to return to the Bay Area. Send all applications to the following address by Friday, January 12, 2008:

Nagib Moush, FPE
1177 Branham Lane, Box 108
San Jose, CA 95118

The Northern California/Nevada SFPE Chapter has established an annual scholarship for it's members. Applicants must have a current membership in either a local/student SFPE chapter and/or National SFPE membership and have had permanent residence in the NCN SFPE Chapter area either presently or in the immediate past if a student enrolled out of the area. Applicants must also be a full time student and complete the required application, including all information requested.

Applications will be reviewed by the Scholarship committee for scholarship awards. NCN SFPE does not guarantee all applicants will receive scholarships nor actual amounts of scholarships.

To obtain an application:

Please contact one of our SFPE Officers.
Request an application via e-mail at nmoush@yahoo.com
Or you can download the application in one of the following formats:

1997 Award

We are pleased to announce that the annual SFPE scholarship has been awarded to Robert Campbell and John Patrick Woycheese. Both applicants have shown impressive academic achievements as well as continued commitment to and support of the Northern California/Nevada SFPE chapter. As a result, the scholarship committee has decided to split the $1000 scholarship and award equal amounts of $500 to each applicant. The scholarship was first initiated in 1996 to further the development of fire protection engineering in the Northern California area.

Robert, a California native, is finishing his degree in Fire Protection Engineering at the University of Maryland. Upon completion, he is planning to return to California to work in the fire protection arena. Robert is a member of SFPE, NFPA and the president of Salamander, Fire Protection Engineering Honor Society.

John Woycheese, co-recipient of the scholarship, has completed his masters degree at the University of California, Berkeley. He is pursuing his Ph.D. which he anticipates to complete in 1999. John has conducted research into the spread of urban/wildland as well as post-earthquake fires. He was drawn to the fire protection field by his father, also a fire protection engineer. John is working on a research paper to be published in the SFPE journal, about propagation of lofted brands, a mechanism for fire propagation observed in the Oakland Hills Fire.

On behalf of the members of the SFPE Northern California/Nevada Chapter we like to congratulate Robert and John, and express our appreciation in their continued involvement in the fire protection community.