School of Nuclear Engineering (Graduate)

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Website URL:

https://engineering.purdue.edu/NE/for you/graduate

Department/School Head:

Seungjin Kim, Ph.D. Capt. James McCarthy, Jr. and Cheryl E. McCarthy Head of the School of Nuclear Engineering

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

The School of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University has students from a variety of undergraduate preparations which include other branches of engineering, various fields of science, and mathematics.  This diversity in conjunction with an open stance on interdisciplinary research enables us to accommodate the interests of our graduate students in exploring new opportunities and challenges in the rapidly broadening field of nuclear engineering advanced technologies as fission and fusion power generators, new medical technologies and procedures, improved food safety, advanced materials processing, advanced imaging, and the safe treatment and disposal of spent nuclear fuel.

• M.S.N.E. in Nuclear Engineering; Ph.D.

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

• Applied Intelligent Systems
• BioElectrics and ElecrtoPhysics (BEEP)
• Materials Under Extreme Environment 
• Nuclear Fusion and Fusion Technology
• Fuel Cycle and Waste Management
• Hydrogen and Fuel Cell
• Nuclear Materials
• Nuclear Systems Simulation
• Radiation and Neutron Detection and Interrogation
• Reactor Physics
• Thermal Hydraulics and Reactor Safety
• Nuclear Nonproliferation

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Chan Choi
Ahmed Hassanein
Mamoru Ishii
Seungjin Kim
Shripad Revankar
Rusi Taleyarkhan
Lefteri Tsoukalas

Associate Professor

Hany Abdel-Khalik
Martin Lopez-De-Bertodano
Allen Garner

Assistant Professor

Robert Bean
Tatyana Sizyuk
Janelle Wharry
Yunlin Xu

Emeritus Faculty

Arden Bement
Victor Ransom
Alvin Solomon
Takashi Hibiki

Programs

• Nuclear Engineering, PHD

• Nuclear Engineering, MSNE

Courses

• NUCL 50100 - Nuclear Engineering Principles
• NUCL 50200 - Nuclear Engineering Systems
• NUCL 50300 - Radioactive Waste Management
• NUCL 50400 - Nuclear Engineering Experiments
• NUCL 51000 - Nuclear Reactor Theory I
• NUCL 51100 - Reactor Theory And Kinetics
• NUCL 51200 - Computers In Reactor Analysis
• NUCL 52000 - Radiation Effects And Reactor Materials
• NUCL 55100 - Mass, Momentum, And Energy Transfer In Energy Systems
• NUCL 55200 - Thermal-Hydraulics And Reactor Safety
• NUCL 55300 - Nano-Macro Scale Applications Of Nuclear Technology
• NUCL 55500 - Thermal Hydraulics Measurement And Instrumentation
• NUCL 56000 - Introduction To Fusion Technology
• NUCL 56300 - Direct Energy Conversion
• NUCL 57000 - Fuzzy Approaches In Engineering
• NUCL 57500 - Neural Computing in Engineering
• NUCL 58001 - Essential Communication Skills For Nuclear Engineering
• NUCL 59700 - Nuclear Engineering Projects I
• NUCL 61000 - Nuclear Reactor Theory II
• NUCL 61200 - Applied Reactor Analysis
• NUCL 62000 - Advanced Topics In Radiation Damage
• NUCL 64000 - Fast Reactor Theory
• NUCL 65000 - Thermal Hydraulics For Nuclear Reactor Safety
• NUCL 65500 - Two-Phase Flow Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications
• NUCL 66000 - Magnetic Confinement Fusion
• NUCL 66100 - Inertial Confinement Fusion Technology
• NUCL 69600 - Nuclear Engineering Seminar
• NUCL 69700 - Nuclear Engineering Projects II
• NUCL 69800 - Research MS Thesis
• NUCL 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

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