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Dr. William Grosshandler is the Deputy Director of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He is responsible for internal operations of the Laboratory, which deals with construction and materials research, building environment research, and fire research. Dr. Grosshandler led the NIST investigation of The Station nightclub (Warwick, R.I.) fire and is the associate lead investigator of the National Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster. Dr. Grosshandler received his PhD. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to his appointment at NIST, he spent three years as the Director of the Thermal Systems Program of NSF. At the same time, he maintained his position as Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University, where he had been since 1976. He has also held visiting appointments at Factory Mutual Research Corporation (now FM Global) and the University of Poitiers in France. Dr. Grosshandler has served on the Board of Directors of the Combustion Institute, the editorial advisory board of Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, and is active in the Heat Transfer Division and a Fellow of ASME. He is on the advisory boards for the Fire Protection Engineering Departments at the University of Maryland and Worcester Polytechnic Institute; chairs the International Forum of Fire Research Directors (FORUM); serves on the Fire Council for Underwriters Laboratory, the research advisory committee for the Fire Protection Research Foundation, and the Science Advisory Committee of the National Association of State Fire Marshals; and is a recipient of the U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal and Gold Medal Awards. |
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William L. GrosshandlerEducationUniversity of Wisconsin, B.S.,Mechanical Engineering, 1968University of California, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, 1976 PositionDeputy DirectorFire Research Division Building and Fire Research Laboratory |
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