Facts & Figures

Degrees Offered

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

Degrees Granted, Academic Year 2015-2016

• 38 BSE (includes 10 Engineering Physics),
• 30 MS/MSE (18 continuing PhD program)
• 25 PhD degrees

Fall 2016 Enrollments

• 127 graduate students (95 PhD students and 32 MS students)
• 101 undergraduate students (sophomores, juniors and seniors)
  (includes 31 Engineering Physics undergraduate students)

Graduate Student Support

• 74 graduate student research assistants
• 17 DOE fellowships
• 11 internal fellowships
• 6 graduate student instructors
• 5 NSF fellowships
• 24 other fellowships (GEM, NRC, NPSC, NANT, SMART, ANS, CVT)

Faculty

• 27 tenured and tenure track faculty
  2 assistant, 3 associate, 22 full professors, 2 joint appointments
• 12 new faculty hired since September 2006, 2 searches underway
• 1 Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
• 11 research scientists (1 full, 7 assistants, 3 associates)
• 5 emeritus faculty, 11 adjunct faculty, 15 Post Doc Fellows
• 2 National Academy of Engineering Members
• 2 Young Investigator Awards (NSF & AFOSR)
• 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

Research Funding

• $22M research expenditures, fiscal year 2016
• $12.4M Nuclear Engineering Laboratory under construction

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