Minor in Nuclear Engineering
26.0 quarter credits
The Nuclear Engineering minor is open to all engineering majors. The minor consists of a minimum of six required courses for 17.0 credits and an additional 9.0 credits of elective courses.Prerequisites
The minor assumes that students will have a background in mathematics and physics equivalent to that covered in the first two years of the engineering curriculum. Specifically, students are required to complete the following pre-requisites: PHYS 101 Physics I; PHYS 102 Physics II; ENGR 210 Intro to Thermodynamics and ENGR 220 Fundamentals of Materials. Courses taken to meet these pre-requisite requirements will not count toward the minor.
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| ECEP 401 | Radiation Detection and Control | 3.0 | ||
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| ECEP 402 | Theory of Nuclear Reactors | 4.0 | ||
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| ECEP 404/ MEM 371 | Introduction to Nuclear Engineering i | 2.0 | ||
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| ECEP 406 | introduction to Radiation Health Principals | 3.0 | ||
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| MATE 450 | The Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Materials | 3.0 | ||
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| PHYS 330 | Introduction to Nuclear Physics | 2.0 | ||
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Students select 9.0 credits from at least two of the following principal areas:
| Industrial Applications Electives | ||||
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| ECEP 403 | Nuclear Power Plant Design and Operation | 4.0 | ||
| MEM 402 | Power Plant Design | 3.0 | ||
| MEM 448 | Applications of Thermal Plasmas | 3.0 | ||
| MEM 449 | Applications of Non-Thermal Plasmas | 3.0 | ||
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| Power Engineering Electives | ||||
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| ECEP 352 | Electric Motor Control Principles | 4.0 | ||
| ECEP 354 | Energy Management Principles | 4.0 | ||
| ECEP 411 | Power Systems I | 3.0 | ||
| ECEP 412 | Power Systems II | 4.0 | ||
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| Nuclear & Thermal Engineering & Science Electives | ||||
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| MEM 446 | Fundamentals of Plasmas I | 3.0 | ||
| MEM 447 | Fundamentals of Plasmas II | 3.0 | ||
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| Materials Electives | ||||
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| MATE 221 | Introduction to Mechanical Behavior of Materials | 3.0 | ||
| MATE 341 | Defects in Solids | 3.0 | ||
| MATE 355 | Structure and Characterization of Crystalline Materials | 3.0 | ||
| MATE 370 | Mechanical Behavior of Solids | 3.0 | ||
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| Transport Phenomena Electives | ||||
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| CHE 302 | Process Fluid Mechanics | 4.0 | ||
| CHE 303 | Process Heat Transfer | 3.0 | ||
| CHE 310 | Transport Phenomena | 4.0 | ||
| CHE 311 | Fluid Flow and Transport | 3.0 | ||
| CIVE 320 | Introduction to Fluid Flow | 3.0 | ||
| MEM 220 | Basic Fluid Mechanics | 4.0 | ||
| MEM 345 | Heat Transfer | 4.0 | ||
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| Simulation Electives | ||||
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| PHYS 105 | Computational Physics I | 3.0 | ||
| PHYS 305 | Computational Physics II | 3.0 | ||
| PHYS 405 | Advanced Computational Physics | 3.0 | ||
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