Ken Isman

A "Blast" From the Past. Loved those days when I was a cannoneer. Go Terps! #givingdayUMD @MightySoundofMD Instrument and Equipment Fund

They aren't kids or pets, but our bears do fun things. Here's Terry Pin and Dave Letter-man headed to a Maryland Basketball Game! Give to the Mighty Sound of Maryland Marching Band Instrument Fund #GivingDayUMD

Giving Day at Maryland. Going for new tubas! They are still using these from when I was in school! #GivingDayUMD

FPEs in the Maryland Alumni Band. I'm with Patrick Schooley, Class of 2020 @fpeumd

Worked with the students in the Sprinkler Lab today. They can all determine what type of system they are looking at and how to perform a main drain test.

Finished the MatzohBall 5K in 46 minutes. A respectable time and 2nd place man in my age bracket so far! #VirtualMatzohBall

Proud of our award winning student Selena Chin!! #SFPE18

So proud of our Maryland Grads Phillip Friday, Jeff Maddox and Brian McGraw inducted as Fellows of the SFPE tonight! #SFPE18

Humbled to receive Bub Nelson Service Award from SFPE. #SFPE18

So proud of our students!

Students work on an experiment to see if they can design a structure with individual paper leaves that burns quickly from bottom to top.

Congratulations to all of our Terp graduates!

Congratulations to our FPE Alumni Cup team; coming in 2nd in the competition with their Rube Goldberg inspired machine to putt a golf ball a distance of 1m in 20 steps!

Students getting ready for tomorrow's burn tests. Whose detection, notification and suppression systems will work?

Congratulations to Andrew Valente (University of Maryland Class of 1990) for being elected to the rank of Fellow in the SFPE!

Honored to be the new Chair of the NFPA Committee on Residential Sprinkler Systems!

From the UMD Burn Lab, this is what a 13 day old Christmas Tree looks like while burning.

Students take Pitot gauge readings during a fire pump test!

Learning to reset a dry-pipe valve at the MFRI sprinkler lab

Proud of our faculty, staff and students that evacuated during today's fire alarm. We practice what we preach!