Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Delivery Modes in Nuclear Engineering

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Holloway, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

two effects really compensate each other? Additionally, are we successfully accounting forthe path-length generated within the region due to particles born from a volumetric source? We now challenge the students with this problem: Imagine an arbitrary 3-D body Γ, and select a direction Ω ˆ and differential solid 2 ˆ angle d Ω around it. The flux ψ(r, Ω) is known, as is the volumetric source Q(r, Ω) ˆ throughout Γ (including external sources and inscatter sources). Select a differential tube through this body with cross sectional area dA (See Fig. 2) and compute the path-length generated within this tube during a time interval T by particles traveling

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Delivery Modes in Nuclear Engineering

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kendra Foltz Biegalski, University of Texas-Austin; Steven Biegalski, University of Texas-Austin; Paul Johnson, University of Texas-Austin; Sean O'Kelly, University of Texas-Austin

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

337C, Introduction to Nuclear Power Systems, is an undergraduate technical elective offeredat The University of Texas at Austin (UT) every Fall semester. It is based on the Introduction toNuclear Engineering textbook by J. Lamarsh.1 The course starts out with an introduction tonuclear reactions, and includes such topics as Q values, number densities, cross-sections, andreaction rates. The course then covers the creation of power by nuclear reactions and thenfocuses on solving the diffusion equation with different geometries and boundary conditions.ME 337C is a pre-requisite for the Reactor Theory I course.As with all of the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program courses, ME 337C is digitallybroadcast and recorded for viewing by distance