Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Teaching Models in NRE

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shih-Liang (Sid) Wang, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

nuclearenergy to raise awareness of nuclear power and its related issues in security, safety, and nuclearenvironmental protection.Course modules are developed to supplement a required freshman engineering course GEEN 100Engineering Design and Ethics (Introduction to Engineering). The modules give an overview ofnuclear engineering to students to broaden their career options. Two new elective courses arebeing developed. An engineering elective is for engineering seniors on nuclear energy andnuclear engineering. It is intended to prepare students for the workforce and/or graduate studiesin the nuclear engineering field. The second elective is for all majors, and it will focus on energyfor America's future, covering nuclear energy among other alternatives

Conference Session

Research and Education in Radiation and Radiologic

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Marshall, North Carolina State University; Mohamed Bourham, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

engineering that students must navigate. Since most un-matriculated first-yearstudents will not have taken the nuclear engineering survey course (Introduction toNuclear Engineering), it is imperative that there be opportunities for students to engagewith the department.Engagement with Un-matriculated Students Student success literature points to the need for content specific material and itsrelevance to real-world applications as one of the key steps in forging alliances to what astudent studies.4,5 In the case of the un-matriculated student, this takes the form of anintroductory course in engineering and problem solving. Within this course studentsengage engineering through discipline exploration, career development, and a freshmandesign

Conference Session

Research and Education in Radiation and Radiologic

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shripad Revankar, Purdue University; Felix Mbuga, Otto H. York Department of Chemical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology,

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

wide undergraduate research programs inscience and engineering. The first institution-wide undergraduate research program at a majorresearch university was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969 and hasbeen followed by a number of other research universities. The National Science Foundation haspresented undergraduate research as a critical component of its core strategy for educationreform. The National Science Foundation began providing financial support for such efforts in1987 through the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, which was specificallydesigned to attract talented students into research careers in science and engineering. Someprograms now require undergraduate research as part of the B.S. degree

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Teaching Models in NRE

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erich Schneider, University of Texas at Austin

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

– while still in wide use areperhaps no longer being as intensively developed. This shift extends to the classroom in thesense that it is often easier to teach students to use Monte Carlo code packages especially whenthe system being studied contains irregular geometries.It can be argued that, since even PhD students will be unlikely to be called upon to develop theirown deterministic transport software during the course of their careers, teaching these methodsfrom other than a theoretical standpoint is not productive. On the other hand, it is very likely thatthese students will be called upon to make use of a ‘legacy’ deterministic transport code. Anumber of codes that use the discrete ordinates approximation to the transport equation remain in