Facts & Figures

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