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NUCL 20000 - Introduction to Nuclear Engineering
Credit Hours: 3.00. A course designed to acquaint students with the field of nuclear engineering and design. Concepts of fission, fusion, radioactivity, and neutron physics are introduced. Nodern applications of nuclear technology, including nuclear medicine, food preservation, space reactors and propulsion. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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NUCL 20500 - Nuclear Engineering Undergraduate Laboratory I
Credit Hours: 2.00. A laboratory course designed for the study of the properties of radiation, radioactive material, and radiation detectors. The hazards of radiation and safe handling techniques are emphasized. Typically offered Spring.
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NUCL 21100 - Fundamentals Of Nuclear Reactors
Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to nuclear energy, nuclear reactor principles, and nuclear power plants. Intended primarily for students in the School of Technology. Typically offered Spring.
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NUCL 27300 - Mechanics Of Materials
Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of stress and strain; equations of equilibrium and compatibility; stress-strain laws; extension, torsion, and bending of bars; membrane theory of pressure vessels; combined loading conditions; transformation of stresses and principal stresses; elastic stability, elected topics. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUCL 29100 - Industrial Practice I
Credit Hours: 0.00. Practice in industry and comprehensive written reports of this practice. For cooperative program students only. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUCL 29199 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op I
Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional experience in Nuclear Engineering. Program coordinated by school with cooperation of participating employers. Students submit summary report and company evaluation. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUCL 29200 - Industrial Practice II
Credit Hours: 0.00. Practice in industry and comprehensive written reports of this practice. For cooperative program students only. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUCL 29299 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op II
Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional experience in Nuclear Engineering. Program coordinated by school with cooperation of participating employers. Students submit summary report and company evaluation. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUCL 29800 - Sophomore Seminar
Credit Hours: 0.00. Career areas in nuclear engineering, job opportunities, areas of related study, topics of current interest, orientation, professional ethics, and responsibility. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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NUCL 30000 - Nuclear Structure And Radiation Interactions
Credit Hours: 3.00. Review of atomic properties and introduction to nuclear models. Discussion of radioactive decay and the interaction of nuclear radiation and reaction products with matter. Energetics and cross-sections of nuclear reactions with applications to problems typical of nuclear engineering. Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 30500 - Nuclear Engineering Undergraduate Laboratory II
Credit Hours: 2.00. Continuation of NUCL 20500 . Experiments with scintillation detectors, multichannel analyzers, neutron detectors, the subcritical pile, and the reactor will be performed. Measurements will be made to demonstrate neutron activation analysis techniques, neutron slowing down, neutron flux distributions, and the effects of control rods on neutron fluxes. Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 31000 - Introduction To Neutron Physics
Credit Hours: 3.00. Development of diffusion theory for neutrons. Neutron interactions and development of one-group neutron diffusion theory with point, plane, and fission sources. Application to one- and two-region reactors. Introduction to buckling, multiplication constants, critical size, neutron slowing down, and resonance capture. Applications using two-group theory. Typically offered Spring.
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NUCL 32000 - Introduction To Materials For Nuclear Applications
Credit Hours: 3.00. Nuclear environments and materials selection for nuclear applications, bonding, crystal structure and symmetry, defects and irradiation, chemical thermodynamics, phase equilibria, phase transformations, and corrosion in nuclear systems and design. Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 32500 - Nuclear Materials Laboratory
Credit Hours: 3.00. Nuclear materials laboratory that evaluates various characterization techniques and technologies, tensile properties, hardness, fracture toughness, microstructures, X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, mechanical properties of thin-films, NDE techniques and data acquisition in materials characterization techniques. Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 35000 - Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulics I
Credit Hours: 3.00. The first of an integrated two-course sequence introducing the concepts of nuclear reactor thermal transport and associated hydraulics with applications to design and safety. Macroscopic balances, dimensional analysis, and flow measurement. Fluid behavior, momentum transfer, and applications to reactor systems and design. Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 35100 - Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulics II
Credit Hours: 3.00. Emphasis is given to the fluid transport of heat from reactor fuel elements. Heat transfer in fluids, analogies, and applications to reactor coolant channel analysis. Two-phase flow and convective boiling. Radiative heat transfer. Applications to safety analysis and reactor design. Typically offered Spring.
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NUCL 35500 - Nuclear Thermohydraulics Laboratory
Credit Hours: 3.00. Laboratory course corresponding to NUCL 35000 and NUCL 35100 . Various fluid flow and heat transfer phenomena applied to nuclear reactor systems and design. Typically offered Spring.
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NUCL 38199 - Professional Practice Co-Op I
Credit Hours: 0.00. To obtain professional practice with qualified employers within industry, government, or small business. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUCL 38299 - Professional Practice Co-Op II
Credit Hours: 0.00. To obtain professional practice with qualified employers within industry, government, or small business. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUCL 38399 - Professional Practice Co-Op III
Credit Hours: 0.00. To obtain professional practice with qualified employers within industry, government, or small business. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUCL 39300 - Industrial Practice III
Credit Hours: 0.00. Practice in industry and comprehensive written reports of this practice. For cooperative program students only. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUCL 39399 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op III
Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional experience in Nuclear Engineering. Program coordinated by school with cooperation of participating employers. Students submit summary report and company evaluation. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUCL 39400 - Industrial Practice IV
Credit Hours: 0.00. Practice in industry and comprehensive written reports of this practice. For cooperative program students only. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUCL 39499 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op IV
Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional experience in Nuclear Engineering. Program coordinated by school with cooperation of participating employers. Students submit summary report and company evaluation. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUCL 39500 - Industrial Practice V
Credit Hours: 0.00. Practice in industry and comprehensive written reports of this practice. For cooperative program students only. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUCL 39599 - Professional Practice Extensive Co-Op V
Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional experience in Nuclear Engineering. Program coordinated by school with cooperation of participating employers. Students submit summary report and company evaluation. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUCL 39699 - Professional Practice Internship
Credit Hours: 0.00. To obtain professional practice with qualified employers within industry, government, or small business. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUCL 39800 - Junior Seminar
Credit Hours: 0.00. Continuation of NUCL 29800 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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NUCL 40200 - Engineering Of Nuclear Power Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. Principles and practice of power plant systems with design applications; thermal cycles, heat transport, mechanical designs, control, safety analysis, shielding analysis, fuel cycles; resources, optimization, options, waste management. Fusion and alternate energy sources. Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 42001 - Radiation Interaction With Materials And Applications
Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamental of radiation interaction with materials and applications, types of radiation and radiation sources, physical mechanisms of radiation interaction with solids, radiation damage, ion mixing, applications in nuclear fission and fusion reactors, applications in materials synthesis. Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 44900 - Senior Design Proposal
Credit Hours: 1.00. The course outcome is the writing and presentation of a proposal for the senior design project, NUCL 45000 . The tasks include the selection of project design topics (various nuclear engineering components and systems designs), the selection of teams, introduction to design process, team management, communication, and engineering ethics, literature and patents survey, initiation of design activities and familiarization with design tools (for example software). Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 45000 - Design In Nuclear Engineering
Credit Hours: 3.00. Application of the design process to the project design topics identified in NUCL 44900 . The design process usually includes, but not limited to, mathematical modeling in design, neutronic, thermal-hydraulics and safety studies, risk assessment, economics, policy and regulation, environmental impact. Typically offered Spring.
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NUCL 46000 - Introduction To Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion
Credit Hours: 3.00. Energy resources and the potential role of nuclear fusion. Ignition and breakeven conditions for fusion power plants. Particle and energy confinement in linear and toroidal magnetic fields. Review of magnetic and inertial confinement experiments and conceptual reactor configurations. Typically offered Spring.
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NUCL 47000 - Fuel Cell Engineering
Credit Hours: 3.00. The principles of electromechanical energy conversion for a single fuel cell, fuel cell stack, process engineering in the fuel and oxidizer supply systems. Principles, components, operation and performance for alkaline, phosphoric acid, solid polymer, molten carbonate and solid oxide fuel cells. Provides broad insight into science, technology, system design, and safety concerns in design and operation of fuel cells. Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 48000 - Nuclear Engineering Technical Communications
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course makes students aware of the importance of communication skills-written, oral, graphical and interpersonal-in a successful nuclear engineering career and gives them the opportunity to develop and practice those skills. Students will learn how to access, evaluate, use and synthesize relevant technical literature. In addition, through the writing and speaking assignments, students develop team work skills, gain an understanding of professional and ethical responsibilities of engineering, learn to write a simple propose and learn about selected contemporary global economic, social and political issues, particularly with respect to nuclear topics. Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 49500 - Professional Internship
Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional experience in Nuclear Engineering. Program coordinated by school with cooperation of participating employers. Students submit a summary report. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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NUCL 49700 - Selected Topics In Nuclear Engineering
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Topics vary. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUCL 49800 - Senior Seminar
Credit Hours: 0.00. Lectures to acquaint the senior students with professional ethics, job opportunities, graduate schools, continuing study, and services of professional societies. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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NUCL 50100 - Nuclear Engineering Principles
Credit Hours: 3.00. A first course for graduate students desiring a nuclear engineering sequence and an elective for students in science or engineering. The course is structured in four parts: (1) Nuclear structure and radiation, biological effects and medical applications of radiation. (2) Basics of neutron and reactor physics, neutron diffusion and reactor criticality. (3) Nuclear materials and waste. (4) Reactor systems and safety. Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 50300 - Radioactive Waste Management
Credit Hours: 3.00. Will familiarize students with the nature of the risks associated with radioactive waste and the history, regulations, and worldwide status for the safe storage of various types of radioactive waste. The sources, characteristics, and magnitudes of radioactive wastes are described, and the current and proposed engineered waste management systems are examined along with the analysis of their associated risks. Typically offered Spring.
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NUCL 50400 - Nuclear Engineering Experiments
Credit Hours: 3.00. A laboratory course that, when coupled with NUCL 50100 , produces a sequence that contains both the theoretical and engineering aspects of nuclear engineering. Topics include radiation detection and analysis, neutronics, and nuclear reactor experiments. Typically offered Spring.
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NUCL 51000 - Nuclear Reactor Theory I
Credit Hours: 3.00. Methodologies of neutron flux calculations, diffusion and slowing down theory, flux separation, material buckling, resonance absorption, Doppler effect, 2-group and multi-group theories, and reactivity balances for design and operation. Introduction to reactor kinetics, delayed neutrons, point reactor kinetics, transient behavior, load changes, reactivity feedback, and safety implications. Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 51100 - Reactor Theory And Kinetics
Credit Hours: 3.00. Advanced methodologies for neutron flux calculation, nodal methods, introduction to transport theory, transport correction, multigroup theory, and introduction to the generation of group constants. Reactor kinetics, perturbation theory, adjoint fluxes, reactivity calculation from perturbation theory, reactivity coefficients due to Doppler effect, temperature and density changes, void coefficient, and energy and power coefficients. Microkinetics, theory of reactivity measurements, approximate methods: prompt jump approximation, and prompt kinetics. Transients with feedback, safety implications, and spatial kinetics. Typically offered Spring.
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NUCL 51200 - Computers In Reactor Analysis
Credit Hours: 3.00. The application of computational methods in reactor systems analysis. Theory behind modern numerical methods (e.g. SOR, Conugate Gradient, etc.) for solving large, sparse systems on linear equations that result from the discretization of elliptical and parabolic partial differential equations. Applications include the multigroup, multi-dimensional neutron transport equation and two-phase flow fluid dynamics. Extensive use of MATLAB, FORTRAN, and UNIX(tm). No written exams, and the majority of problem sets are performed as group projects. Knowledge of FORTRAN required. Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 52000 - Radiation Effects And Reactor Materials
Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to radiation effects in solids and a survey of nuclear reactor materials. Radiation interaction mechanisms and effects on properties. Reactor material characteristics, selection criteria, testing, and economic considerations. Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 55100 - Mass, Momentum, And Energy Transfer In Energy Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. Formulations for analyzing complicated thermal-hydraulic phenomena in energy systems. Derivation of two-phase flow field equations and constitutive relations. Thermal-hydraulic modeling of nuclear reactor systems. Analyses of nuclear reactor safety related phenomena based on conservation principles. Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 55200 - Thermal-Hydraulics And Reactor Safety
Credit Hours: 3.00. Applications of thermal-sciences to nuclear reactor safety design and risk assessment. Emphasis on illustrating the use of basic principles in quantitative safety assessments of practical and current interest. The basic topics revolve around multiphase transients and applications which include study of accident analysis and its applications to licensing for light water reactor systems and for liquid metal fast breeder reactor. Typically offered Spring.
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NUCL 55300 - Nano-Macro Scale Applications Of Nuclear Technology
Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction of the principles of nuclear science and engineering for addressing industrial and scientific issues ranging from sub nano-to-macro scales. Areas to be covered include: propulsion, high-energy density materials, supercooling, medical applications, sonoluminescence, novel detection systems for special nuclear and contraband materials, and advanced nuclear fusion power systems. Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 55500 - Thermal Hydraulics Measurement And Instrumentation
Credit Hours: 3.00. Measurement techniques in fluid flow, heat transfer, and multi-phase flow. The principle and practice of measurement of temperature, flow, level, pressure, and void fraction (in two-phase flow systems) as applied to nuclear reactor systems. Instrument error and measurement errors, and data acquisition system using PC. Hands-on experience in the laboratory with instruments. Typically offered Spring.
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NUCL 56000 - Introduction To Fusion Technology
Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to electricity and magnetism, magneto-fluid-mechanics and plasma physics. Thermonuclear reactions, power balances, macroscopic and microscopic instabilities. Principles of operation and conceptual design of Tokamaks, Mirror, Theta-Pinch, and Laser-Driven fusion reactors. Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 56300 - Direct Energy Conversion
Credit Hours: 3.00. Review of energy sources and study of the basic processes of direct energy conversion and their applications to energy utilization, based on both conventional and nuclear energy conversion schemes. Conventional schemes include thermoelectric, photovoltaic, thermionic, magnetohydrodynamic generators, fuel cell systems, etc.; and nuclear energy conversion schemes correspond to nuclear radiation and fusion energy conversion. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Spring.
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NUCL 57000 - Fuzzy Approaches In Engineering
Credit Hours: 3.00. Presentation of the mathematical fundamentals of fuzzy logic theory and a survey of engineering applications. Fuzzy sets; the extension principle; fuzzy numbers; fuzzy relations and composition; linguistic descriptions; implication operators and fuzzy algorithms are formally developed. Applications emphasize the engineering utilization of approximate reasoning to diagnostics, control, safety, and decision-making problems. Typically offered Spring.
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NUCL 57500 - Neural Computing in Engineering
Credit Hours: 3.00. Mathematical fundamentals of computing with neural networks. Survey of engineering applications. Computational metaphors from biological neurons. Artificial neural networks modeling of complex, nonlinear and ill-posed problems. Emphasizes engineering utilization of neural computing to diagnostics, control, safety, and decision-making problems. Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 59700 - Nuclear Engineering Projects I
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Development of individual research and study projects. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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NUCL 61000 - Nuclear Reactor Theory II
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course covers advanced reactor physics topics including the neutron transport theory, slowing down and resonance escape, and generalized perturbation theory. The neutron transport theory is the fundamental theory describing the neutron flux behaviors in nuclear systems. The slowing down and resonance escape calculations are essential for generating the multi-group cross sections required in the whole-core neutron transport calculations. The generalized perturbation theory is a powerful method for determining the changes in response parameters due to the variations in nuclide densities and microscopic cross sections. Prerequisites: NUCL 51000 and advanced engineering mathematics covering complex analysis, partial differential equations, and integral equations.. Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 61200 - Applied Reactor Analysis
Credit Hours: 3.00. Reactor physics analysis of existing reactors and critical experiments through the use of digital computers and reactor programs. One-, two-, and three-dimensional solutions of the diffusion and transport equations. Calculation methods for lifetime effects on excess reactivity, power distribution, breeding ratio, and temperature, void, and Doppler coefficients of reactivity. Fuel shuffling and safety calculations for fuel handling and storage. Concurrent Prerequisite: NUCL 61000 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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NUCL 64000 - Fast Reactor Theory
Credit Hours: 3.00. Course is designed to teach reactor physics specific to fast spectrum reactors and the associated computational methods. Topics include breeding and actinide burning capabilities, core design implications, and reactivity feedback mechanisms. Computational methods will be specific to fast reactor physics analysis and include the fast neutron spectrum calculation, group constant generaton and reactivity feedback calculations for Doppler, thermal expansions, and sodium void. Prerequisites: NUCL 51100 and advanced engineering mathematics covering complex analysis, partial differential equations, and integral equations. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUCL 65000 - Thermal Hydraulics For Nuclear Reactor Safety
Credit Hours: 3.00. Safety philosophy, levels and goals of safety. Approaches used for nuclear reactor safety for the protection of public health. Design basis accidents. Engineered safeguards and inherent safety features. Fundamentals of safety related thermal-hydraulic phenomena and their integration into a methodology for containment assessment. Prerequisite: ME 50500 . Typically offered Spring.
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NUCL 65500 - Two-Phase Flow Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications
Credit Hours: 3.00. The course guides the student to two-fluid model solutions using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Topics include: review of the two-fluid model, review of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations, description of numerical algorithms, and two-phase flow channel and jet flows. Prerequisite: NUCL 56000 . Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 66000 - Magnetic Confinement Fusion
Credit Hours: 3.00. Applications of plasma physics for analysis and design of plasma configurations in fusion reactors. Topics include beam-driven fusion systems, plasma heating and ignition via neutral beams and RF wave heating, plasma waves, kinetic and fluid descriptions of plasmas, and energy transport; blanket neutronics for tritium breeding, energy conversion, and reactor design considerations. Prerequisite: NUCL 56000 . Typically offered Spring.
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NUCL 66100 - Inertial Confinement Fusion Technology
Credit Hours: 3.00. Inertially confined thermonuclear fusion reactions and energy gains; laser-plasma interactions; hydrodynamic compression; energy transports including electron thermal conduction and radiation transport; beam transport and instabilities; driver energy deposition and the driver development for lasers, particle beams and accelerators; and target designs. Approval of Instructor required. Prerequisite: NUCL 56000 or equivalent. Typically offered Fall.
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NUCL 69600 - Nuclear Engineering Seminar
Credit Hours: 0.00. Discussion by graduate students and invited speakers of their research projects and topics of interest in nuclear engineering. Prerequisite: Master’s student standing and Nuclear Engineering majors only. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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NUCL 69700 - Nuclear Engineering Projects II
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Development of individual research and study projects. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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NUCL 69800 - Research MS Thesis
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research MS Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUCL 69900 - Research PhD Thesis
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research PhD Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUPH 41200 - Diagnostic Imaging I
Credit Hours: 1.00. The overall objective of this course is to introduce the concepts of diagnostic imaging and clinical applications as relevant to the practice of pharmacy. Basic principles applicable to instrumentation, the design of diagnostic imaging drugs, and clinical concepts are emphasized. In addition to specific diagnostic drugs and therapeutic adjuncts used with various imaging modalities, the advantages and limitations of each modality are presented. Typically offered Fall.
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NUPH 41300 - Diagnostic Imaging II
Credit Hours: 1.00. Continuation of information on diagnostic imaging modalities as relevant to pharmaceutical care as well as emphasis upon examples of nuclear medicine procedures of specific interest to pharmacy. Fundamental concepts of radiation effects on living systems are applied to medical applications of radioactivity. Typically offered Fall.
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NUPH 41400 - Nuclear Pharmacy Laboratory
Credit Hours: 2.00. Instrumentation and procedures basic to radiopharmaceutical preparation and analysis; health physics and regulatory aspects essential to the practice of nuclear pharmacy. Typically offered Spring.
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NUPH 41600 - Practicum In Nuclear Pharmacy
Credit Hours: 1.00. A structured, supervised practice experience in nuclear pharmacy. Typically offered Summer.
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NUPH 49000 - Special Topics
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. An honors course for superior students to be used in relation to, and to supplement, an existing course; an in-depth approach to topics of current interest utilizing the original literature as prime source material. A laboratory project may be included. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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NUPH 49100 - Introduction To Nuclear Pharmacy
Credit Hours: 1.00. This course will serve as an introduction to nuclear pharmacy practice and serve as the first course in the nuclear pharmacy elective series. Successful completion of the nuclear pharmacy series can be used to meet the 200 hour didactic training requirement set forth by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) towards achieving Authorized User status. This course will provide basic information about the profession of nuclear pharmacy, as well as an introduction to radioactive material and radiation safety concepts. The course will conclude with guest lectures from practitioners in several different areas of nuclear pharmacy practice to provide information about the different areas of practice available to nuclear pharmacists. Typically offered Spring.
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NUPH 49200 - Basics Of Nuclear Pharmacy Practice
Credit Hours: 1.00. This course emphasizes some of the daily tasks performed by nuclear pharmacist when working in the nuclear pharmacy. Typically offered Fall.
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NUPH 49300 - Regulatory Considerations For Nuclear Pharmacy Practice
Credit Hours: 2.00. This is the second course in the nuclear pharmacy series, with an emphasis on the regulatory oversight of nuclear pharmacy practice. While the previous course dealt with radiation safety issues, this course outlines how these safety skills relate to the regulatory requirements set forth by the various regulatory agencies. Typically offered Fall.
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NUPH 49400 - Clinical Aspects Of Nuclear Pharmacy Practice
Credit Hours: 2.00. This course will be offered as a short course that will primarily be offered as a lecture format with some interactive discussion and problem solving applications. This course will count towards the 200 hours of didactic training required for Authorized Nuclear Pharmacists (ANP) status. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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NUPH 49600 - Case Studies In Clinical Nuclear Medicine
Credit Hours: 1.00 or 2.00. Introduction to the clinical applications of radiopharmaceutical drug products and the associated practice of nuclear medicine, through analysis of a series of current clinical case studies. Factors examined include: patient medical history, with emphasis on recent diagnostic procedures and pharmacotherapy; radiopharmaceutical selection, dosage, and preparation; possible contraindications for the nuclear medicine procedure and associated interventional agents; diagnostic findings; and the impact of study outcome on subsequent patient treatment. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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NUPH 55000 - Introduction To Positron Emission Tomography
Credit Hours: 2.00. Introduction to the principles and applications of positron emission tomography (PET). Topics include: instrumentation; radionuclide production; synthesis and applications of 15O, 11C, 13N, and 18F radiopharmaceuticals; quantitative tracer kinetic modeling; and regulatory issues in clinical PET. Typically offered Spring.
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NUPH 69000 - Special Problems
Arrange Hours and Credit. Individual investigations in the applications of radionuclides to research and nuclear pharmacy. Hours and credits to be arranged. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUPH 69600 - Seminar In Nuclear Pharmacy
Credit Hours: 0.00 or 1.00. Selected topics in nuclear pharmacy, radiopharmaceutical chemistry, health physics, and radiation biology, presented by staff, students, and invited speakers. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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NUPH 89500 - Clerkship In Nuclear Medicine
Credit Hours: 4.00. Four-week Doctor of Pharmacy clinical rotation designed to develop the student’s clinical knowledge and skills with regard to diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine and associated nuclear pharmacy practice. The contributions of nuclear medicine and nuclear pharmacy to patient care will be evaluated through study of clinical cases and outcomes. NUPH 41600 and NUPH 55000 recommended. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUR 10800 - Introduction To Nursing
Credit Hours: 1.00. Introduce students entering the nursing profession to foundations of the baccalaureate nursing curriculum, including concepts, competencies, mandatory requirements and responsibilities within the profession. Students are introduced to the rigor of the curriculum and begin to build a sense of community within the Purdue School of Nursing. Typically offered Fall.
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NUR 21400 - Introduction To Pathophysiology
Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to pathophysiological alterations in major regulatory mechanisms of the body. Provides a foundation for understanding general nursing practice, various diagnostic procedures, and selected therapeutic regimens. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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NUR 21801 - Health Assessment And Essentials Of Nursing Practice I
Credit Hours: 5.00. Focuses on the beginning concepts and principles for the professional nurse while developing fundamental skills in a nursing process framework. Through lecture and clinical learners begin to apply skills in communication and assessment. Emphasis is placed on developing physical examination skills, obtaining health histories and performing client centered safe nursing care to meet basic healthcare needs in diverse populations across the lifespan. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUR 21901 - Pathopharmacology I
Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to the study of underlying changes in primary physiologic regulatory mechanisms affecting homeostasis, metabolic processes, immune response, circulation, renal elimination, fluid/electrolyte and acid/base balance, sensory perception and alteration in comfort and the pharmacotherapies utilized as treatment for alterations and disease states. This introductory knowledge provides the foundation for the understanding and practice of general nursing. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUR 22001 - Essentials Of Nursing Practice II
Credit Hours: 5.00. Continues to expand on the professional nursing role supported by fundamental concepts and principles of the nursing process in lecture and clinical settings. Learners apply communication, assessment and nursing skills while caring for the needs of clients in diverse populations across the lifespan. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUR 22101 - Pathopharmocology II
Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to the study of underlying changes in primary physiologic regulatory mechanisms affecting respiratory, hematologic, endocrine, neurologic, neuromuscular, gastrointestinal and reproductive function and the pharmacotherapies utilized as treatment for alterations and disease states. This course builds on the learning objectives from Pathopharmacology I to provide the foundation for the understanding and practice of general nursing. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUR 22201 - Population Health
Credit Hours: 2.00. A comprehensive introduction to population health concepts and practices through examination of philosophy, purpose, functions, activities and tools. Multiple determinants (genetics, cultural, social, and behavioral factors) that influence population health and illness are explored including the contribution of these factors to health disparities. Population-focused initiatives for health promotion and disease prevention are examined within the context of local to global public health systems. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUR 22301 - Foundations Of Research And Evidence-Based Practice
Credit Hours: 4.00. Students gain foundational competencies for evidence-based practice (EBP), including computer literacy, information literacy, and professional communication. Students learn the principles of research process and identify strengths and limitations of research articles in relation to EBP in nursing and healthcare. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUR 31401 - Health Alterations In Adults I
Credit Hours: 6.00. One of two courses focusing on providing nursing care to adults with an emphasis on the application of the nursing process to assist diverse populations reach their optimal level of wellbeing as they experience health care across the delivery system continuum. Emphasis will be on promoting clinical reasoning skills, integrating best practices, and ensuring patient safety. The course concentrates on adults experiencing alterations in tissue integrity related to surgical interventions, cellular division, reproductive function, elimination, nutrition and sensoryfunction that typically result in hospitalization. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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NUR 31501 - Nursing Of Childbearing Families
Credit Hours: 5.00. Promotes the development of nursing skills when caring for families and their newborns during uncomplicated and/or complicated childbearing experiences within a variety of clinical settings. Emphasizes the study and application of the nursing process, integrating evidence based practice while meeting the health and safety needs of diverse childbearing families. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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NUR 31601 - Integration Seminar I
Credit Hours: 1.00. In this course, students will be challenged to identify appropriate nursing interventions for patients with a combination of medical and obstetrical diagnoses. Through the course activities the students will be challenged to look at healthcare from a patient perspective. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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NUR 31701 - Health Alterations In Adults II
Credit Hours: 6.00. One of two courses focusing on providing nursing care to adults with an emphasis on the application of the nursing process to assist diverse populations reach their optimal level of wellbeing as they experience health care across the delivery system continuum. Emphasis will be on promoting clinical reasoning skills, integrating best practices, and ensuring patient safety. The course concentrates on adults experiencing alterations in health related to oxygenation, circulatory dynamics, endocrine regulation, neurological regulation, immune regulation and musculoskeletal dynamics that typically result in hospitalization. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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NUR 31801 - Psychosocial Nursing
Credit Hours: 5.00. Focuses on providing nursing care that supports mental health and the care of persons with mental illness while providing a conceptual integration of the nursing process, theories, and research from the biopsychosocial sciences and humanities. Demonstrates the relevance of psychiatric-mental health nursing concepts to all areas of professional practice. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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NUR 31901 - Integration Seminar II
Credit Hours: 1.00. In this course, students will be challenged to identify appropriate nursing interventions for patients with a combination of medical and psychiatric diagnoses. Through the course activities, the students will be challenged to look at healthcare from a patient perspective. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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NUR 32800 - Clinical Applications Of Pathophysiology
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course organizes physiological principles into a rationale for commonly encountered signs, symptoms, and therapy of selected disorders and diseases. Students are encouraged to synthesize these principles into a basis for formulating and evaluating the nursing care of clients. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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NUR 34800 - Spanish For Health Care Professionals
Credit Hours: 3.00. To improve the ability of health care professionals to communicate with Spanish-speaking clients and families in health care settings. Typically offered Fall.
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NUR 38199 - Professional Practice Co-Op I
Credit Hours: 0.00. Program coordinated by Nursing with cooperation of participating employers and the Office of Professional Practice. Students will submit summary reports and company evaluations related to the experience. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUR 38299 - Professional Practice Co-Op II
Credit Hours: 0.00. Program coordinated by Nursing with cooperation of participating employers and the Office of Professional Practice. Students will submit summary reports and company evaluations related to the experience. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUR 38399 - Professional Practice Co-Op III
Credit Hours: 0.00. Program coordinated by Nursing with cooperation of participating employers and the Office of Professional Practice. Students will submit summary reports and company evaluations related to the experience. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUR 39699 - Professional Practice Internship
Credit Hours: 0.00. Program coordinated by Nursing with cooperation of participating employers and the Office of Professional Practice. Students will submit summary reports and company evaluations related to the experience. Professional Practice students only. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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NUR 39801 - International Special Topics
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Course taken during an international experience that is recognized by the University. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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