NUC E 401 INTRODUCTION TO NUCLEAR ENGINEERING ( 3) Fundamental concepts of nuclear engineering, including fission, reactor theory, shielding, and radioisotopes; intended for other than nuclear engineering students. Prerequisite: MATH 250 or MATH 251

NUC E 403 ADVANCED REACTOR DESIGN ( 3) Physical principles and computational methods for reactor analysis and design. Multigroup diffusion theory; determination of fast and thermal group constants; cell calculations for heterogeneous core lattices. Prerequisite: NUC E 302

NUC E 405 (CHEM) NUCLEAR AND RADIOCHEMISTRY ( 3) Theory of radioactive decay processes, nuclear properties and structure, nuclear reactions, interactions of radiation with matter, biological effects of radiation. Prerequisite: CHEM 452 , NUC E 301 , or PHYS 237

NUC E 408 RADIATION SHIELDING ( 3) Radiation sources in reactor systems; attenuation of gamma rays and neutrons; point kernel methods; deep penetration theories; Monte Carlo methods. Prerequisite: NUC E 301

NUC E 409 (MATSE) NUCLEAR MATERIALS ( 3) Nuclear reactor materials: relationship between changes in material properties and microstructural evolution of nuclear cladding and fuel under irradiation. Prerequisite: PHYS 214

NUC E 420 RADIOLOGICAL SAFETY ( 3) Ionizing radiation, biological effects, radiation measurement, dose computational techniques, local and federal regulations, exposure control. Prerequisite: NUC E 301 or NUC E 405

NUC E 428 RADIOACTIVE WASTE CONTROL ( 3) Nature, sources, and control of radioactive wastes; theory and practice of disposal processes. Prerequisite: NUC E 301 or NUC E 405

NUC E 430 DESIGN PRINCIPLES OF REACTOR SYSTEMS ( 3) Nuclear power cycles; heat removal problems; kinetic behavior of nuclear systems; material and structural design problems. Prerequisite: M E 412 ; NUC E 301 or NUC E 401

NUC E 431W NUCLEAR REACTOR CORE DESIGN SYNTHESIS ( 4) Technical and economic optimization of nuclear systems. Prerequisite: ENGL 202C ; NUC E 403 , NUC E 430

NUC E 444 NUCLEAR REACTOR OPERATIONS LABORATORY ( 1) Correlation of reactor physics and reactor theory with practical reactor situations that will be controlled by the student. Prerequisite: or concurrent: NUC E 302

NUC E 445 NUCLEAR DIGITAL INSTRUMENTATION ( 3) Interfacing nuclear instruments to microprocessors and computers. Prerequisite: E E 305

NUC E 450 RADIATION DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT ( 3) Theory and laboratory applications of radiation detectors, including proton, neutron, charged particle detectors, NIM devices, and pulse-height analysis. Prerequisite: NUC E 301 or NUC E 405 ; NUC E 309

NUC E 451 EXPERIMENTS IN REACTOR PHYSICS ( 3) Acquisition and processing of nuclear and atomic data; application to nucleonic phenomena of importance in nuclear engineering. Prerequisite: E E 305 , NUC E 450

NUC E 460 NUCLEAR SYSTEMS RISK ASSESSMENT ( 3) Probability concepts and distributions, failure data, reliability and availability of simple systems, fault and event tree analysis, risk concepts, nuclear power risks, WASH-1400. Prerequisite: NUC E 309 or STAT 401

NUC E 460 (M E) RELIABILITY AND RISK CONCEPTS IN DESIGN ( 3) Effective Date: FA2004 Introduction to reliability mathematics. Failure data collection and analysis. Components and systems reliability prediction. Effects of maintenance on reliability. Risk Analysis. Case studies in engineering applications. Prerequisite: MATH 250 or MATH 251 ; STAT 401 or I E 424 or NUC E 309

NUC E 470 POWER PLANT SIMULATION ( 3) Basic knowledge necessary for intelligent simulation and interpretation of simulations of transients in nuclear power plants. Prerequisite: M E 033 , MATH 251 , NUC E 302

NUC E 490 (AERSP;E E) INTRODUCTION TO PLASMAS ( 3) Plasma oscillations; collisional phenomena; transport properties; orbit theory; typical electric discharge phenomena. Prerequisite: E E 361 or PHYS 467

NUC E 494 SENIOR THESIS ( 1 - 9) Students must have approval of a thesis adviser before scheduling this course.

NUC E 496 INDEPENDENT STUDIES ( 1 -18)

NUC E 497 SPECIAL TOPICS ( 1 - 9)

NUC E 501 REACTOR ENGINEERING ( 3) Thermal hydraulic fundamentals applied to power reactors, thermal analysis of fuel elements and two-phase heat transfer in heated channels. Prerequisite: NUC E 430

NUC E 505 REACTOR INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL ( 3) Reactor control principles; classical control methods; operational control problems; control simulation using modern mainframe and microcomputer software packages; reactor instrumentation. Prerequisite: NUC E 302 OR NUC E 401

NUC E 506 NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY ( 3) Energetics, kinematics, and models of nuclear reactions; nuclear processes as chemical probes, mossbauer effect and perturbed angular correlation spectroscopy.

NUC E 512 NUCLEAR FUEL MANAGEMENT ( 3) Nuclear fuel inventory determination and economic value through the fuel cycle. Emphasis on calculational techniques in reactor, optimization, and design. Prerequisite: NUC E 302

NUC E 521 NEUTRON TRANSPORT THEORY ( 3) Derivation of Boltzmann equation for neutron transport; techniques of approximate and exact solution for the monoenergetic and spectrum regenerating cases. Prerequisite: NUC E 403 or PHYS 406

NUC E 523 (METAL) ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION OF MATERIALS IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS ( 3) Degradation of materials performance when exposed to the combination of high temperature, neutron irradiation, and aggressive electrochemistry found in nuclear reactors. Prerequisite: MATSE 420 or NUC E 409

NUC E 525 MONTE CARLO METHODS ( 3) Fundamentals of the probability theory and statistics, analog and non-analog Monte Carlo methods and their applications, random processes, and numbers. Prerequisite: MATH 141 , PHYS 237 , STAT 401

NUC E 530 PARALLEL/VECTOR ALGORITHMS FOR SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS ( 3) Development/analysis of parallel/vector algorithms (finite-differencing of PDEs and Monte Carlo methods) for engineering/scientific applications for shared and distributed memory architectures. Prerequisite: AERSP 424 or CSE 457

NUC E 540 (E E;AERSP) THEORY OF PLASMA WAVES ( 3) Solutions of the Boltzmann equation; waves in bounded and unbounded plasmas; radiation and scattering from plasmas. Prerequisite: E E 490

NUC E 541 (E E) PLASMA THEORY ( 3) Advanced topics in kinetic theory, fluctuation theory, microinstability, and turbulence. Prerequisite: AERSP 490 OR E E 490 OR NUC E 490

NUC E 590 COLLOQUIUM ( 1 - 3) Continuing seminars which consist of a series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers.

NUC E 596 INDIVIDUAL STUDIES ( 1 - 9) Creative projects, including nonthesis research, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.

NUC E 597 SPECIAL TOPICS ( 1 - 9)