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Bryan Hoskins
An Associate Professor of Fire Protection & Safety at Oklahoma State University, Dr. Hoskins earned his BS and MS degrees in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland. He also received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 2011 with an emphasis on building egress.
Dr. Hoskins spent one year working for Arup on projects primarily dealing with life safety design and people movement. He then spent two years working for the National Institute of Standards and Technology working on projects dealing with building evacuations and emergency messaging. At Oklahoma State University, Dr. Hoskins has taught courses related to life safety, structural fire protection, detection and alarm systems, sprinkler system design, special hazard protection, fire dynamics, smoke control, WUI fires, and others.
Professor Hoskins is an active member of the SFPE and NFPA. He serves as the chair of the working group that developed and maintains the SFPE Research Roadmap, serves on the committees for multiple SFPE guides and other committees, and is on eight technical committees for codes and standards. His research interests are in evacuation, tenability, emergency messaging, and other issues related to human behavior in fire.