Contact: Maridith Geuder
Kirk Rosenhan is a professional engineer, certified in Mississippi and four other states. Now the fire engineer and research associate at Mississippi State University can add the United Kingdom to that list.
Rosenhan, also Oktibbeha County's fire services coordinator, recently was inducted into membership of the UK's Engineering Council Division. He is registered as a charter engineer.
"There are only a handful of charter engineers in the United States," he said. MSU mechanical engineering professor John Berry, a British native, is among them, he added.
To earn the designation, engineers must meet requirements including education, experience and an oral examination. Rosenhan traveled to London in October to sit for the exam.
Because fire equipment experts often are multinational, Rosenhan already had spent considerable time in the United Kingdom. A member of England's Institute of Fire Safety, he also is a founding member of the U.S.-UK Fire Symposium.
A member of MSU's aerospace engineering faculty, Rosenhan's research interests include machine design, fluid flow analysis, computerized modeling, and fire protection engineering, among others.
His other memberships include the National Fire Protection Association, Society of Fire Protection Engineers, International Association of Arson Investigators, and Mississippi Firefighters Association.
He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri and a master's from Mississippi State, with additional graduate work at Oklahoma State and MSU.