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Research and Education in Radiation and Radiologic

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Nuclear and Radiological

. There is a strong interest among faculty to seek interested undergraduatestudent participation in their research projects. The undergraduate research has often been usedas a recruitment tool for graduate schools. The undergraduate research participation in generalhas benefitted both students and the faculty and has given rich experience to the graduatestudents and researchers who otherwise would not interact with undergraduate students. TheNuclear Engineering student groups are generally small and this interaction has more impact onstudent learning. The undergraduate research during summer and during academic year innuclear engineering program is reviewed. Key lessons learnt by faculty and graduate studentsand feedback by undergraduate students

Conference Session

Research and Education in Radiation and Radiologic

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Nuclear and Radiological

. A project in progress,this paper reports on initial observations. Page 13.873.2 Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering EducationMatriculation - Progress towards Degree Nuclear Engineering enrollment figures have increased over an eight year periodby 74% (Figure 1), and the number of un-matriculated students (students showing anintent to major in nuclear engineering) has increased 55% from 15 to 52 (Figure 2). Overthis same period, the portion of the entire undergraduate student body these numbersrepresent

Conference Session

Research and Education in Radiation and Radiologic

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shripad Revankar, Purdue University

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Nuclear and Radiological

Nuclear Hydrogen -Chemical and Nuclear Engineers’ DreamAbstractNuclear energy is one of the practical energy sources to produce CO2 free hydrogen. Thisnuclear hydrogen technology requires both Nuclear and Chemical Engineers. At anundergraduate level this concept of bringing chemical engineers and nuclear engineers to worktogether in future energy technology is exciting and has created interest in chemical engineeringundergraduate students to participate in research activities in Nuclear Engineering discipline. Anaccount of projects on nuclear hydrogen area carried out by chemical engineering undergraduatesin nuclear engineering school is presented. The projects were on thermochemical water splitting,sodium borohydride hydrolysis, and fuel cell

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Teaching Models in NRE

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas at Austin; Elmira Popova, University of Texas; Kendra Foltz-Biegalski, University of Texas; Steven Biegalski, University of Texas at Austin; Michael Krause, University of Texas

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Nuclear and Radiological

researchers from Brazil to forecast energy pricing and load. One of her current projects, in collaboration with the McCombs School of Business, concerns risk-informed asset management for electric and nuclear power generation. The project addresses risk assessment, risk management, and reliability problems that arise in electric power generation. The research seeks to help industry officials make the best operational and executive management decisions by more accurately accounting for seemingly unpredictable issues such as outage duration and regulatory safety constraints, as well as uncertainty related to energy prices, mechanism failures, repair costs and other factors.Kendra Foltz-Biegalski

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Teaching Models in NRE

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erich Schneider, University of Texas at Austin

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Nuclear and Radiological

welllogging problem to a study of the effects of homogenization in TRISO fuel kernels, were quitesuccessful and will be used as case studies in future offerings of the class.The remainder of this paper is structured as follows. Section 2, Curriculum, describes thematerials covered during the six week module. In Section 3, Exercises, the three computationalproblems and one NJOY exercise assigned to the students are presented. Section 4, Projects,addresses the students’ self-directed application of their SN codes to problems germane to theirresearch.2. CurriculumSince the module was to be presented in just six weeks, coverage of the material in the text(Lewis and Miller2) was necessarily abbreviated. Table 1 shows the schedule followed duringthe seven

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Teaching Models in NRE

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas at Austin; Rose Stiffin, Flroida Memorial University; Dimitri Tamalis, Florida Memorial University; Michael elliott, Flroida Memorial University; Ayivi Huisso, Florida Memorial Univeristy

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Nuclear and Radiological

(RIAM) program that is a joint effort between the Operations Research and IndustrialEngineering Graduate Program at The University of Texas at Austin, the Risk ManagementGroup at South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company (STPNOC), and the Nuclear AssetManagement Program at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). The main objective of theRIAM program is: to make optimal risk-informed decisions at both operational and executivemanagement levels by taking into account budget, internal project dependencies, outageduration, and regulatory safety constraints; to appropriately model and include the uncertaintyrelated to rates of return on investments, energy prices, failure mechanisms, and costs forreplacement and spare parts; and to provide