Nuclear Engineering

What is it? The MEng is a professional master’s degree culminating in a final project and report. The final project tends to focus on a problem in industry as opposed to a novel research idea, and the written report may be published.

Who is it for? The MEng is geared toward working professionals, and especially engineers with a degree outside of the nuclear sciences that work in the nuclear industry. However, anyone interested in expanding their nuclear engineering knowledge can apply. Applicants should have a bachelor’s degree in engineering or basic science with a strong understanding of trigonometry, exponentials, natural logarithms, derivatives, the chain rule for derivatives, integrals, vector operations, and some ordinary differential equations.

Degree requirements are comprised of the following:

• 30 credit hours
  • 12 credit hours of core coursework
    • NSEG 5124 Nuclear Reactor Analysis
    • NSEG 5204 Nuclear Fuel Cycle
    • NSEG 5424 Reactor Thermal Hydraulics or MSE 5384G Advanced Nuclear Materials
    • NSEG 5604 Radiation Detection and Shielding
  • 3 credit hours of graduate level math/statistics
  • 3-6 credits of project and report
  • 9-12 credit hours of elective courses
• Diversity and Inclusion requirement
• Ethics Requirement 

(CIP 14.2301)