Drysdale Appointed to WPI
Dougal Drysdale, Ph.D., a fire safety lecurer at the University of Edinburgh, has been appointed Connecticut General/Aetna visiting professor in the graduate level fire protection engineering curriculum at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass., beginning this month.
He organized the University of Edinburgh’s Fire Laboratory and taught fire science, fire dynamics and the behavior of combustible materials there.
Drysdale is currently researching fire behavior of combustible materials, the use of smoke tests to predict the amount of smoke produced in a fire and an evaluation of fire risk, smoldering combustion and spontaneous ignition. His appointment is supported by a grant from the Aetna Insurance Co.
