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Degrees Offered

  • Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences | BSE, MS, MSE, PhD
  • Engineering Physics | BSE

Degrees Granted, Academic Year 2020–2021

  • 25 BSE (includes 10 Engineering Physics),
  • 10 MS/MSE (6 continuing PhD program)
  • 16 PhD degrees

Fall 2022 Enrollments

  • 116 graduate students (96 PhD students and 20 MS students)
  • 115 undergraduate students (sophomores, juniors, and seniors)
    (includes 61 Engineering Physics undergraduate students)

Graduate Student Support

  • 78 graduate student research assistants
  • 7 internal fellowships
  • 10 graduate student instructors
  • 3 NSF fellowships
  • 23 other fellowships (GEM, NRC, NPSC, NANT, SMART, ANS, CVT, MTV)

Faculty

  • 27 tenured and tenure-track faculty
    2 assistant, 4 associate (+1 joint appointment), 19 full professors (+1 joint appointment)
  • 15 research scientists 2 full, 1 full adjunct, 5 assistants, 7 associates)
  • 10 emeritus faculty, 16 adjunct faculty, 17 Postdoctoral Fellows
  • 2 National Academy of Engineering Members
  • 1 E.O. Lawrence Award Winners
  • 3 ANS Holly Compton Awardees
  • 1 Vannevar Bush Award
  • 1 National Medal of Technology

Research Areas

  • Fission Systems & Radiation Transport
  • Plasmas & Nuclear Fusion
  • Materials & Radiation Effects
  • Radiation Measurements & Imaging
  • Policy & Climate

Research Priorities

  • Clean, Affordable, and Reliable Nuclear-Inclusive Energy Systems
  • Nuclear Security and Homeland Defense
  • Environment and Health
  • Scientific Discovery

Research Funding

  • 32M research expenditures, fiscal year 2021 external sponsored and internal research

Research Facilities

  • Detection for Nuclear Nonproliferation Laboratory
  • Experimental and Computational Multiphase Flow Laboratory (ECMF)
  • High Field Science Laboratories (CUOS)
  • High-Resolution TH Imaging Laboratory
  • High-Temperature Corrosion Laboratory (HTCL)
  • Irradiated Materials Testing Complex (IMTL)
  • Materials Preparation Laboratory
  • Metastable Materials Laboratory
  • Michigan Center for Microstructure Characterization
  • Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory
  • Neutron Science Laboratory
  • Nuclear Measurements Teaching Laboratory
  • Nuclear Plant Simulation Laboratory (NPSL)
  • Plasma Science and Technology Laboratory
  • Plasma, Pulsed Power, and Microwave Laboratory
  • Position-Sensing Semiconductor Radiation Detector Laboratory
  • Radiation Detection Laboratory
  • Radiation Effects and Nanomaterials Laboratory
  • Radiation Imaging Laboratory
  • Radiological Health Engineering (RHE) Laboratory
  • Thermal-Hydraulics Lab

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