Graduate Program in Nuclear Engineering

Degress offered
The department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering at UNM offers an MS in Nuclear Engineering with several options for concentration and a PhD in Engineering with a Nuclear Engineering concentration.

Research Areas
The nuclear engineering research graduate programs at The University of New Mexico include:

Nuclear criticality safety Radiation transport Reactor theory Single and two-phase flow in microgravity Space nuclear power Thermal-hydraulics Fusion energy Accelerator physics and engineering Occupational and environmental radiation protection Plasma physics generation Nuclear activation diagnostics High energy density physics Reactor and shielding design

Time series analysis Nuclear fuel irradiation behavior Theoretical and numerical methods in neutral and stochastic transport theory Charged particle transporty Model-reference adaptive control of nuclear power plants Heat pipes for space application Computational methods for heat transfer and fluid flows Single phase laminar and combined flows Two-phase flows Probabilistic risk assessment Monte Carlo methods Computational radiation transport and reactor physics Application of information theory

See the faculty directory for more details.

Faculty
The department currently houses six faculty in Nuclear Engineering.

Research Facilities
The nuclear engineering laboratory is equipped with:

• Nuclear training reactor
• Hot-cell facility with remote manipulators
• Pulsed neutron generator
• Graphite pile
• Several solid state detectors for alpha, beta, and gamma radiation
• Computer based data acquisition, analysis and control systems
• Supporting radiation measurements systems

In addition to the well-equipped laboratories on campus, the advanced reactors and radiation equipment of Sandia National Laboratories, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Phillips Laboratory are utilized for instruction and research.

Graduate students also have access to resources available through our associated centers and affiliated reasearch facilities.

Contacts
Jocelyn White (jowhite@unm.edu), Program Coordinator for Advisement
Dr. Gary W. Cooper(garywc@unm.edu), Professor and Graduate Advisor