School of Nuclear Engineering (Graduate)

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Website URL:

https://engineering.purdue.edu/NE/Academics/Graduate/index.html

Department/School Head:

Klod Kokini, Interim Head

Admission Requirements:

Master’s Degree Program Basic Requirements

• Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average:
  3.2 or equivalent required
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE):
  Not required, but strongly recommended

International Applicant Requirements:

• Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average:
  3.2 or equivalent required
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE):
  Not required, but highly recommended
• TOEFL for Non-Native English Speakers:
  Minimum Paper-Based Test (PBT) Score Required: 550
  Minimum Internet-Based Test (IBT) Overall Score Required: 77
  With the following minimum section requirements:
  Reading: 19
  Listening: 14
  Speaking: 18
  Writing: 18
• IELTS (Academic Module):
  An alternative to the TOEFL, scores of 6.5 or higher will be accepted
• Pearson Test of English (PTE) (Academic Module):
  An alternative to the TOEFL, scores of 58 or higher will be accepted
• TWE for Non-Native English Speakers:
  Not required, but recommended

Doctoral Degree Program Basic Requirements

• Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average:
  3.5 or equivalent required
• Master’s Degree Completion:
  Required, with a grade point average of 3.5 or equivalent
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE):
  Not required but strongly recommended

International Applicant Requirements:

• Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average:
  3.5 or equivalent required
• Master’s Degree Completion:
  Required, with a grade point average of 3.0 or equivalent
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE):
  Not required
• TOEFL for Non-Native English Speakers:
  Minimum Paper-Based Test (PBT) Score Required: 550
  Minimum Internet-Based Test (IBT) Overall Score Required: 77
  With the following minimum section requirements:
  Reading: 19
  Listening: 14
  Speaking: 18
  Writing: 18
• IELTS (Academic Module):
  An alternative to the TOEFL, scores of 6.5 or higher will be accepted
• Pearson Test of English (PTE) (Academic Module):
  An alternative to the TOEFL, scores of 58 or higher will be accepted
• TWE for Non-Native English Speakers
  Not required, but recommended

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

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

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

• Applied Intelligent Systems
• BioElectrics and ElecrtoPhysics (BEEP)
• Center for Materials Under Extreme Environment 
  • Fusion Technology
  • Materials under Intense Particle Beans Irradiation
  • Ultrashort Laser-Matter Interactions
    • Cold Atmospheric Plasmas for Medical and Biological Applications
    • Modeling of Materials Evolution in Extreme Environment
    • Ion Channel Protein and Blood Flow in Head Simulation
• Fuel Cycle and Waste Management
• Hydrogen and Fuel Cell
• Nuclear Systems Simulation
• Reactor Physics
• Thermal Hydraulics and Reactor Safety

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Chan Choi
Ahmed Hassanein
Takashi Hibiki
Mamoru Ishii
Shripad Revankar
Rusi Taleyarkhan
Lefteri Tsoukalas
Won Sik Yang

Associate Professor

Hany Abdel-Khalik
Martin Lopez-De-Bertodano
Gennady Miloshevsky

Assistant Professor

Robert Bean
Allen Garner
Tatyana Sizyuk

Emeritus Faculty

Arden Bement
Victor Ransom
Alvin Solomon

Research Faculty

Miltiadis Alamaniotis
Valeryi Sizyuk

Programs

• Nuclear Engineering, PHD

• Nuclear Engineering, MS
• Nuclear Engineering, MSNE

Courses

• NUCL 50100 - Nuclear Engineering Principles
• 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 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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