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Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Related Topics: Dynamics and reactor control; Environmental effects on materials; Intense electron beam accelerators; Ion beam processing; Nuclear fusion; Nuclear medicine; Radiation transport; Radioactive waste management; Radiological health engineering; Reactor design; Reactor design and analysis; Reactor kinetics; Reactor safety; Space nuclear power; Waste management

Related Places: Bioelectromagnetism Laboratory; Center for Advanced Computing; High Temperature Corrosion Laboratory; Irradiated Materials Testing Complex; Materials Preparation Laboratory; Metastable Materials Laboratory; Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory; Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences; Nuclear Measurements Teaching Laboratory; Plasma, Pulsed Power, and Microwave Lab; Position-Sensing Radiation Detector Laboratory; Radiation Detection Laboratory; Radiation Imaging Laboratory; Radiological Health Engineering Laboratory; The Plasma Science and Technology Laboratory

Description: Nuclear Engineering is a relatively young branch of the engineering sciences, and the University of Michigan has participated in its formation from the early days of fission reactor development. The first University of Michigan course in nuclear energy applications was taught in the College of Engineering in 1947, only five years after Enrico Fermi first demonstrated a controlled fission reaction during the Manhattan Project. In 1953 the country's first graduate program in Nuclear Engineering began as an interdepartmental program at the University of Michigan. The success of this graduate program led to the establishment of the Department of Nuclear Engineering in 1958. The Department granted only graduate degrees until 1965, when the undergraduate program was instituted by the University. To more accurately reflect the broad research and teaching activities in the Department, the name was changed in July 1995 to the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences by action of the Regents of the University. By January of 1995 the Department had awarded 576 bachelor's degrees, 781 master's degrees, and 359 doctoral degrees. Current enrollment includes 80 undergraduates in the Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics programs offered through the Department. Eighty graduate students are currently enrolled, with more than half pursuing their doctorates.