Facts & Figures

Degrees Offered

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

Degrees Granted, Academic Year 2019–2020

• 34 BSE (includes 13 Engineering Physics),
• 21 MS/MSE (11 continuing PhD program)
• 19 PhD degrees

Fall 2020 Enrollments

• 128 graduate students (102 PhD students and 26 MS students)
• 118 undergraduate students (sophomores, juniors, and seniors)
  (includes 58 Engineering Physics undergraduate students)

Graduate Student Support

• 61 graduate student research assistants
• 1 DOE fellowships
• 2 internal fellowships
• 8 graduate student instructors
• 4 NSF fellowships
• 18 other fellowships (GEM, NRC, NPSC, NANT, SMART, ANS, CVT, MTV)

Faculty

• 28 tenured and tenure track faculty
  1 assistant, 5 associate (+1 joint appointment), 20 full professors (+1 joint appointment)
• 15 research scientists (1 full + 1 full adjunct, 7 assistants, 6 associates)
• 10 emeritus faculty, 15 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

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

• 26.5M research expenditures, fiscal year 2020 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