School of Nuclear Engineering (Graduate)

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Website URL:

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

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

• 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

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

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

Associate Professor

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

Assistant Professor

Robert Bean
Allen Garner
Tatyana Sizyuk
Janelle Wharry

Emeritus Faculty

Arden Bement
Victor Ransom
Alvin Solomon

Programs

• Nuclear Engineering, PHD

• Nuclear Engineering, MSNE

Courses

• 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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