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