Academics

Curriculum: Graduate, Major | Undergraduate, Minor

The purpose of the graduate program in Nuclear Engineering is to educate engineers who will develop and manage the resurgent nuclear industry in research, design, and operation.

The program objectives are to develop graduate level engineers who have the ability to lead and sustain the future growth of the nuclear industry, to develop new concepts of reactor design, fuel management and waste management, and to develop non-traditional applications of nuclear energy.

Curriculum: Graduate, Major

Degrees offers through our Nuclear Engineering Program are:

ME (without thesis), MS (with thesis), and PhD.

Core Classes

• EMCH 552: Introduction to Nuclear Engineering
• EMCH 553: Nuclear Fuel Cycles
• EMCH 755: Advanced Nuclear Engineering
• EMCH 757: Radiation Shielding
• EMCH 758: Nuclear Systems

(choose at least 2 for MS or at least 4 for ME)

• EMCH 555: Radiation Detection and Instrumentation
• EMCH 561D: Licensing and Regulation
• EMCH 754: Thermal Hydraulic Design of Nuclear Reactors
• EMCH 756: Safety Analysis of Energy Systems
• EMCH 759: Waste Management
• EMCH 772: Nuclear Materials

(choose up to 1)

• Any NE elective (from above)
• A math course (should be advised as which would be most appropriate)
• Any Engineering course at 500 level or higher.
• GEOL 650: Microscopy & Microanalysis

• All above subject to 700 rule (half courses at 700 level).

Current and prospective graduate students should consult the Mechanical Engineering Department website for graduate students and in particular the graduate student handbook.

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Curriculum: Undergraduate, Minor

Required/Core Classes

• EMCH 552: Introduction to Nuclear Engineering (required)
• EMCH 553: Nuclear Fuel Cycles (required)

One of the following two:

• EMCH 557: Radiation Shielding (or EMCH757)
• EMCH 558: Nuclear Systems (or EMCH558)

Any College of Engineering and Computing Departmental or Technical Elective courses with a particular nuclear energy emphasis as approved by the nuclear engineering curriculum committee in the Department of Mechanical Engineering:

• EMCH 522: Design for Manufacture and Assembly
• EMCH 555: Instrumentation
• EMCH 561D: Nuclear Licensing
• EMCH 561F: Sustainable Energy
• EMCH 551: NE in Hydrogen Economy
• EMCH 754: Thermal hydraulic design of nuclear reactors
• EMCH 756: Safety Analysis of Energy Systems (PRA)
• EMCH 757 or EMCH 758 (one taken as an elective in addition to the one that is required as above)
• EMCH 772: Nuclear Materials
• ECHE 589V: Topics/Fluid Mechanics
• ECHE 705: Chemical Processes in Nuclear Engineering

• PHYS 307: Intro Modern Physics
• PHYS 511: Nuclear Physics
  
  

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