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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
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