Nuclear Engineering Minor
Diversify your career options by studying for a nuclear engineering minor. With almost 20% of the electricity generation in the United States being from nuclear power, this industry will only continue to grow in the future. Make yourself more marketable as an engineer by adding this program to your education.
Program Overview
With a nuclear engineering minor, you’ll gain a basic understanding of the nuclear engineering field and how it relates to various industries. Learn about the fundamentals of nuclear reactors, radiation interactions, power plant design concepts, and more.
Why Get a Minor in Nuclear Engineering?
The nuclear power field is only continuing to grow, so obtaining a nuclear engineering minor would be beneficial to your career. With the ability to choose courses in varied topics, you can take charge of the direction of nuclear engineering you want to study.
Featured Courses
NE 200 Introduction to Nuclear and Radiological Engineering
Get an introduction to topics and issues in nuclear engineering, with scientific and technical topics interspersed with discussions about policy, lifelong learning and professional responsibility/ethics.
NE 433 Principles of Health Physics
This class covers Radiation quantities, limits and risk assessment, external and internal dosimetry, biological effects of radiation, radiation detection, radiation interactions and decay, applications.
NE 404 Nuclear Fuel Cycle
In this course, students will learn about all relevant components of the commercial nuclear fuel cycle, including methods for mining and milling, physics of uranium enrichment, fuel fabrication, in-core fuel management strategies, reactor physics, spent fuel storage, reprocessing, and disposal of high-level radioactive wastes.
NE 406 Radiation Shielding
Learn about the types of radiation sources, fundamentals of gamma ray and neutron attenuation, biological effects, approximate methods of shield design, and use of modern analysis tools.
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