Facts & Figures

Degrees Offered

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

Degrees Granted, Academic Year 2018-2019

• 39 BSE (includes 17 Engineering Physics),
• 19 MS/MSE (9 continuing PhD program)
• 19 PhD degrees

Fall 2019 Enrollments

• 133 graduate students (104 PhD students and 29 MS students)
• 113 undergraduate students (sophomores, juniors and seniors)
  (includes 50 Engineering Physics undergraduate students)

Graduate Student Support

• 70 graduate student research assistants
• 8 DOE fellowships
• 3 internal fellowships
• 5 graduate student instructors
• 3 NSF fellowships
• 19 other fellowships (GEM, NRC, NPSC, NANT, SMART, ANS, CVT, MTV)

Faculty

• 29 tenured and tenure track faculty
  2 assistant (1 joint appointment), 4 associate, 21 full professors (1 joint appointments)
• 17 new faculty hired since September 2006
• 14 research scientists (1 full + 1 full adjunct, 6 assistants, 4 associates)
• 8 emeritus faculty, 14 adjunct faculty, 12 Post Doc Fellows
• 2 National Academy of Engineering Members
• 2 E.O. Lawrence Award Winners
• 4 ANS Holly Compton Awardees
• 1 Vannevar Bush Award
• 1 National Medal of Technology

Instructional and Research Areas

• Fission systems, radiation transport, thermal hydraulics multiphase flow
• Plasma physics and fusion
• Materials
• Measurements, nuclear nonproliferation
• Climate Change

Research Funding

• $25M research expenditures, fiscal year 2019 external sponsored and internal research

Research Facilities

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