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)