Mar 29, 2024  
2019-2020 Graduate Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Nuclear Engineering


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https://ne.utk.edu

J.W. Hines, Head
Jason Hayward, Director of Graduate Studies

Professors
Hall, H.L., PhD – California (Berkeley)
Hayward, J.P. (UCOR Fellow), PhD – Michigan
Hines, J.W. (Chancellor’s Professor and Postelle Fellow), PhD – Ohio State
Maldonado, G.I., PhD – North Carolina State
Wirth, B.D. (Governor’s Chair Professor), PhD – California (Santa Barbara)
Wood, R., PhD – Tennessee
Zinkle, S. (Governor’s Chair Professor), PhD – Wisconsin

Associate Professors
Brown, N.R., PhD – Purdue
Coble, J.B., PhD – Tennessee
Heilbronn, L.H., PhD – Michigan State
Lang, M.K., PhD – University of Heidelberg (Germany)
Lukosi, E., PhD – Missouri (Columbia)
Pevey, R.E., PhD, PE – Tennessee
Skutnik, S.E., PhD – North Carolina State

Assistant Professors
Donovan, D., PhD – Wisconsin

Emeriti Faculty
Dodds, H.L., PhD, PE – Tennessee
Groer, P.G., PhD – Vienna (Austria)
Kerlin, T.W., PhD – Tennessee
Miller, L.F., PhD, PE – Texas A&M
Townsend, L.W., PhD – Idaho
Upadhyaya, B.R., PhD, PE – California (San Diego)

Research Professors
Fontana, M.H., PhD, PE – Purdue
Ganapol, B.D., PhD – California (Berkeley)
Grossbeck, M.L. (Research), PhD – Illinois
Lillie, R.A., PhD – Tennessee
Melcher, C., PhD – California Institute of Technology
Mihalczo, J.T. (Research), PhD – Tennessee
Miller, J., PhD – Tennessee
Mynatt, F.R., PhD – Tennessee
Ruggles, A.E., PhD – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Research Associate Professors
Gribok, A.V., PhD – IPPE (Russia)
Valentine, T., PhD – Tennessee

Research Assistant Professors
Agarwal, S., PhD – France
Auxier, J., PhD – Tennessee
Chvala, O., PhD – Prague, Czech Republic
Moussa, H., PhD – Tennessee
Stephan, A., PhD – Tennessee
Terrani, K., PhD – California (Berkeley)

Professor of Practice
Lagdon, C., MEA – George Washington

Joint Faculty
Katoh, Y., PhD – University of Tokyo (Japan)
Sobes, V., PhD – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stowe, A., PhD – Florida State

Adjunct Faculty
Dr. Brian Anderson, Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr. Peter Angelo, Lecturer
Dr. Andrei I. Apostoaei, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Steven Arndt, Adjunct Professor
Dr. Birsen Ayaz-Maierhafer, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Jun Ding, Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr. Douglas Bowen, Lecturer
Dr. Joseph Bowling, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. David H. Cook, Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr. Philip Edmondson, Adjunct Associate Professor
Mr. Dyrk Greenhalgh, Lecturer
Dr. Mark Harrison, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Thomas Harrison, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Hash Hashemian, Adjunct Professor
Mr. Christopher Haught, Lecturer
Dr. Samantha Hedrick, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. David Hoelzer, Research Associate Professor
Dr. David E. Holcomb, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Michael Howard, Adjunct Professor
Dr. Erik B. Iverson, Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr. Jose March-Leuba, Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr. Gloria Mei, Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr. Trent Nichols, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Chet Ramsey, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Brandon P. Rasmussen, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Jadon Readle, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Mr. Christopher Robinson, Lecturer
Dr. Matthew Reinke, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Richard G. Taylor, Lecturer
Dr. Joseph Thie, Adjunct Professor
Dr. Aleksey H. Urmanov, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Colin West, Adjunct Professor
 

Majors, Degrees
Medical Physics Major, MS  
Nuclear Engineering Major, MS  
Dual MS-MBA Program, Nuclear Engineering - Business Administration  
Nuclear Engineering Major, PhD  
   Energy Science and Engineering Concentration
  Radiological Engineering Concentration
Reliability and Maintainability Engineering, MS   
  Nuclear Engineering Concentration
Graduate Certificates
  Medical Physics Graduate Certificate  
  Nuclear Criticality Safety Graduate Certificate  
  Nuclear Security Science and Analysis Graduate Certificate  
  Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Graduate Certificate   


The Department of Nuclear Engineering offers programs leading to the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees, and four Graduate Certificates. Students may elect a traditional nuclear engineering program focusing on fission energy or radiological engineering concentrationprogram, which prepares students for careers in the radiation safety field (health or medical physics). Both programs are designed for graduates of accredited undergraduate programs in engineering, physics, chemistry, or mathematics.

All entering students must have, as a minimum, competency in mathematics through ordinary differential equations. Admitted applicants will be advised of any prerequisite undergraduate courses that may be required for their graduate studies. In addition, students without a BS in nuclear engineering, or the equivalent, must take NE 433 , NE 470  both of which may be taken for graduate credit. However, students in the radiological engineering concentration will take NE 551  in place of NE 433 . Students electing the radiological engineering concentration must take NE 550 , NE 551 , NE 552  and NE 490  in their course of study. The department head is the contact for all interested students, both those with nuclear engineering degrees and those from other disciplines.

The Graduate Certificate in Medical Physics requires applicants to have earned a PhD in an appropriate field such as Nuclear Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, or other closely related science and engineering discipline.

Graduate Credit for Undergraduate Courses

400-level courses, listed in the Graduate Catalog, in nuclear engineering may be used for graduate credit. However, at least two-thirds of the minimum required credit hours in the MS must be taken in courses numbered 500 or above.

 

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