Facts & Figures

Degrees Offered

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

Degrees Granted, Academic Year 2017-2018

• 38 BSE (includes 14 Engineering Physics),
• 23 MS/MSE (11 continuing PhD program)
• 18 PhD degrees

Fall 2018 Enrollments

• 140 graduate students (114 PhD students and 26 MS students)
• 113 undergraduate students (sophomores, juniors and seniors)
  (includes 47 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)

Faculty

• 28 tenured and tenure track faculty
  2 assistant (1 joint appointment), 2 associate, 24 full professors (2 joint appointments)
• 13 new faculty hired since September 2006
• 1 Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
• 14 research scientists (1 full + 1 full adjunct, 7 assistants, 5 associates (1 joint))
• 5 emeritus faculty, 12 adjunct faculty, 14 Post Doc Fellows
• 3 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

Research Funding

• $24M research expenditures, fiscal year 2018 external sponsored and internal research
• $12.4M Nuclear Engineering Laboratory (completed)

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