Scott Ayers, P.E. Email & Phone Number

Rockville, Maryland, United States

I lead CPSC's efforts to help reduce the risks of being injured or dying from fire, electrocution, and carbon monoxide.

Rockville, MD

Fire Protection Engineer in the Directorate for Engineering Sciences. Project manager for a project on proposed rulemaking of open-flame, alcohol burning, decorative appliances. Additional work includes failure analysis and hazard analysis of the fire safety of consumer products including, but not limited to LP-gas appliances, candles, and residential fire.

Lead fire extinguishing and flow control product engineer. Design, test, and optimize fire extinguishers and flow control devices. Empirically model performance based on testing. Work as part of a multi-functional IPT team with manufacturing, quality, purchasing, contract managers. Responsible for keeping project on schedule and on budget.

Technical lead for the integration of the fire protection system onto commercial airplanes. Manage project requirements and interface between the customer and the product engineers. Responsible for ensuring programs are on schedule, on budget, and meet the necessary certification requirements.

A lead engineer on a program to develop a new technology aerosol airplane powerplant fire suppression system. Directly responsible for the $1.25 M development of an analyzer system; $300 K small scale agent characterization test set up; the discharge characterization of the agent; and the thermal cycling modeling of the agent.

A project engineer for fire suppression extinguishing products for aerospace and military ground vehicles. Work with other functional groups to ensure products met customer requirements and research cost-saving alternatives.

Responsible for product development, testing, and integration of clean agent, aerosol, inert gas, and restaurant fire protection systems. Communicated with customers on new product development, management on project goals, technicians and engineers on project accomplishments, approval agencies on required testing, and development companies on new.

Contracted to the Navy Technology Center for Safety and Survivability at the Naval Research Laboratory. Planned, conducted, analyzed, and presented findings from large scale fire suppression experiments. Led a composite test team focused on fire suppression, fire, halon replacement, AFFF, combustion, damage control, two-phase/reacting flow, chemistry.

Assisted in fire modeling research. Part time while a student.

Responsible for laboratory maintenance, project coordination, class and student assistance, and conducted experiments. Started as a work-study student and finished as the laboratory manager. Part-time work while student.

Worcester, MA

Assisted Professors in the teaching of classwork. Worked with students to better understand the material.

Falmouth, MA

Worked in a laboratory bleeding horseshoe crabs and processing the blood for further use.

M.S., Fire Protection Engineering

Activities and Societies: Salamander Honor Society

B.S., Mechanical Engineering (Thermal Fluids)

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi Honor Society Charles O Thompson Fellow Maatman FellowGraduate with Distinction

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