, radiation engineering, research reactor beam port experiments, radioactive wastemanagement and reactor and computational nuclear engineering, homeland security and non-proliferation. As a result of the ever broadening educational and research needs, ten years agothe nuclear program changed its name to Nuclear and Radiation Engineering to better reflect itsnew directions. In spring 2007, we were funded by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission toimplement at new undergraduate technical option in the Nuclear and Radiation EngineeringProgram at The University of Texas at Austin The overall objective is to to provide: (1) aNuclear Certificate geared towards undergraduate students in engineering and individuals in thenuclear industry consisting of courses in
discrete ordinates equations in slab geometry subjectto reflecting boundary conditions. Figure 1 shows how an animation helps explain the conceptsof iterating on the scattering source, assembling the angular fluxes ψi,ng for each mesh point i,ordinate n and group g via successive left-to-right and right-to-left sweeps, and banking scatteredand reflected neutrons for use in the next iteration.In the animation, of which only a snapshot can be depicted in this paper, a source of reflectedneutrons is present at the left-hand edge of the slab of transporting material (yellow). Theanimation shows how the reflected neutron field is used to determine the ordinate fluxes for therightward-directed ordinates at the first mesh boundary point x1/2. The
students participated in various chemicalengineering related projects in the past three years along with eight nuclear engineering students.At conclusion of the research projects the students were asked to give feedback on their overallexperience in nuclear engineering department and on the particular projects. Here some ofstudent’s feedbacks are summarized that reflect the need to integrate some of the chemistry,chemical engineering and nuclear engineering topics in undergraduate education (1) The nuclear engineering undergraduates expressed strong interest in taking advanced chemistry courses in reaction kinetics as it helps them understand the chemical reactions and models. The current curriculum lacks higher chemistry
, homeland security and non-proliferation. As a result of the ever broadening educational and research needs, ten years agothe nuclear program changed its name to Nuclear and Radiation Engineering to better reflect itsnew directions. In spring 2007, we were funded by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission toimplement at new undergraduate technical option in the Nuclear and Radiation EngineeringProgram at The University of Texas at AustinObjective The overall objective is to provide: (1) a Nuclear Certificate geared towardsundergraduate students in engineering and individuals in the nuclear industry consisting ofcourses in nuclear safety, nuclear security, nuclear environmental protection, and reactoroperations including 15 overall credits with 3