Conference Session

Nuclear and Radiological Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bryndol A. Sones, United States Military Academy

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Nuclear and Radiological

Curriculum is shown in Figure1, and Figure 2 offers an accompanying legend with course titles. Figure 1 showsthe default sequencing of the required courses by year where the unshadedcourses represent the common core courses, and the shaded courses represent therequired courses for the NE Major. For those courses in the NE Major, those withthe prefix “NE” or “PH” are taught in our department, and the others shown initalics are taught outside of this department, e.g., EE, ME, MC, and MA whichrepresent courses in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, civilengineering, and mathematics, respectively. Two points are important tohighlight from this NE curriculum review. First, there are more credit hours togeneral education (54.0) than there are

Conference Session

Nuclear and Radiological Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masoud Naghedolfeizi, Fort Valley State University; Sanjeev Arora, Fort Valley State University

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Nuclear and Radiological

been instrumental in acquiring, through various grants, computers, and software for the physics laboratory at FVSU. Some of his funded grant proposals are as follows: 1) Establishing a Nuclear Science and Engineering Minor at Fort Valley State University 2) Establishing an Undergraduate STEM Teaching and Research Laboratory at FVSU 3)Establishing an Interdisciplinary Bioinformatics Laboratory at Fort Valley State University 3) Computer-based Instrumentation Laboratory for Undergraduate Science and Mathematics Programs at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Fort Valley State University. 4) Developing an Undergraduate Minor in Computer-based Mea- surement and Instrumentation at Fort Valley State

Conference Session

Nuclear and Radiological Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yaël-Alexandra Jackie Monereau, Elyape Consulting, LLLP; University of Tennessee

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Nuclear and Radiological

value of people is increased or decreased based on knowledge, this information may beobtained through multiple facets. Taking an in-depth look at the multiple Implementations inEngineering Practices that are being introduced across the various industries, there are some verystrong differences in delivery methods; however the similarities far out-weigh the variances.Utilizing Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) environments in addition totraditional teaching practices allows for a comprehensive view to what can only be experiencedthrough doing. Simulation type teaching is built on the premise of, "I hear and I forget. I see andI remember. I do and I understand." Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC) [1].It is imperative to remember that

Conference Session

Nuclear and Radiological Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas E. Adams, NSWC Crane / Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shripad T. Revankar, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Nuclear and Radiological

. Page 26.1334.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Research, Development and Evaluation Capabilities for Betavoltaic Power Sources1. IntroductionRadiation interaction with materials can have beneficial uses, such as in betavoltaic cells, a typeof radioisotope power source that utilize energy of beta radiation converted into electricity [1].The specific development of betavoltaic devices has arisen out of the need for reliable, long-lived, high energy density power sources for operating electrical systems in hostile andinaccessible environments, such as -40°C and 80°C. It is well established that conventionalelectrochemical batteries, despite their

Conference Session

Nuclear and Radiological Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Prins, United States Military Academy; Bryndol A. Sones, United States Military Academy; Daniel Schlich , U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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Nuclear and Radiological

time military training. Subsequently, thenecessary paperwork was filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to allow licensed sealedsources to be used on a specific training site, commonly referred to as Camp Shea (Figure 1).During summer training operations, Camp Shea is used as a military operations in an urbanterrain (MOUT) training range.Figure 1. Pictures showing the entrance to the Camp Shea training complex located on thegrounds of the United States Military Academy and cadets conducting radiation surveyoperations.The West Point NE program is fortunate to possess numerous radiation detectors across thedetection spectrum of ionization chambers, scintillation detectors, and Geiger-Mueller detectors.Likewise, radiation dosimetry is