Master of Engineering in Nuclear Engieering
Graduate Certificate in Engineering - Nuclear Engineering
For more information contact:
Dr. Mohammad Modarres, Professor
Nuclear Engineering
0151C, Glenn L. Martin Hall
301-405-5226
Email: modarres@umd.edu
Master of Engineering Core Courses
The following four core courses are required for non-nuclear engineerng undergraduate majors. Students will also select one of the four specialized tracks to best suit their educational neds. Students with an undergraduate degree in Nuclear Engineering will consult with the academic advisor to determine the appropriate core courses.
ENNU 440 Nuclear Technology Laboratory (3) One hour of lecture and four hours of laboratory per week. Techniques of detecting and making measurements of nuclear or high energy radiation. Radiation safety experiments. Both a subcritical reactor and the swimming pool critical reactor are sources of radiation.
ENNU 450 Basic Nuclear Engineering (3) Required for non-nuclear undergraduates. Elementary nuclear physics, reactor theory, and reactor energy transfer. Steady-state and time dependent neutron distributions in space and energy.
ENNU 465 Nuclear Reactor Safety and Systems (3) Power reactor (BWR,PWR,HTGR) system design and analysis. System specifications and modes of operation. Plant documentation (PSAR,FSAR, etc.). Piping and instrumentation drawings. Theory and application of pump and piping calculations. Steam power plant cycles and calculations. Steam plant equipment (turbines, heaters, condensers, etc.) analysis.
ENRE 620 Methods of Engineering Analysis (3) Application of selected mathematical techniques to the analysis and solution of engineering problems; included are the applications of matrices, vectors, tensors, differential equations, integral transforms, and probability methods to a wide range of problems.
Recommended Core Course
ENNU 609 Seminar in Nuclear Engineering (1)
Elective Tracks
ENNU 655 Radiation Engineering (3) An analysis of such radiation applications as synthesizing chemicals, preserving foods, control of industrial processes, design of irradiation installations. E.G., Cobalt 60 gamma ray sources, electronuclear machine arrangement, and chemonuclear reactors.
ENNU 631 Applied Radiation Physics (3)
ENMA 624 Radiation Engineering in Polymers (3) Ionizing radiation, radiation dosimetry and sensors, radiation processing, radiation effects on; polymers, metals, semiconductors, liquid, and gas, radiation in advance manufacturing, radiation-physical technology
ENNU 648A Reactor Operations (3)
ENNU 648B Nuclear Fuel Cycle Safety (3)
ENNU 648E Advanced Nuclear Reactor Systems: Physics and Engineering (3)
ENNU 648K Severe Nuclear Accidents (3)
ENNU 648R Risks of Energy Systems (3)
ENRE 447 System Safety Engineering (3) Role of system safety, the language of system safety, and programs for achieving safety, such as the problem solving process, safety criteria, safety descriptors, checklist-timeliness elements, safety training, hazard analysis, and uncertainty in safety measurements. Time-phased indicators, hazard nomenclature, hazard mode and effect analysis, hazard classification, hazard probability, survival rate, distributions applied to human performance.
ENRE 640 Collection and Analysis of Reliability Data (3) Prerequisites: ENRE 620 and ENRE 602. Probabilistic life models, for components with both time independent and time dependent loads. Data analysis, parametric and nonparametric estimation of basic time-to-failure distributions. Data analysis for systems. Accelerated life models. Repairable systems modeling.
ENRE 655 Advanced Methods in Reliability Modeling (3) Prerequisites: None. Bayesian methods and applications, estimation of rare event frequencies, uncertainty analysis and propagation methods, reliability analysis of dynamic systems, analysis of dependent failures, reliability of repairable systems, human reliability analysis methods, and theory of logic diagrams and application to systems reliability.
ENRE 670 Risk Assessment for Engineers I (3) Prerequisite: ENRE 602. Also offered as ENNU 651. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENNU 651 or ENRE 670. Why study risk, sources of risk, probabilistic risk assessment procedure, factors affecting risk acceptance, statistical risk acceptance analysis, psychometric risk acceptance, perception of risk, comparison or risks, consequence analysis, risk benefit assessment. Risk analysis performed for light water reactors, chemical industry, and dams. Class projects on risk management concepts.
ENRE 671 Risk Assessment for Engineers II (3) Prerequisites: ENRE 670. The course covers advanced techniques for performing quantitative risk assessment. The fundamental theory of systems risk modeling, methods for vulnerability identification, risk scenario development. and probability assessment are presented. Also covered are methods for risk results presentation, and several example applications.
ENME 632 Advanced Convection Heat Transfer (3) Prerequisites: ENME 315, 321 , 342, 343, and 700 or equivalent or permission of instructor . Statement of conservation of mass, momentum and energy. Laminar and turbulent heat transfer in ducts, separated flows, and natural convection. Heat and mass transfer in laminar boundary layers. Nucleate boiling, film boiling, Leidenfrost transition, and critical heat flux. Interfacial phase change processes; evaporation, condensation, industrial applications such as cooling towers, condensers. Heat exchanger design.
ENME 633 Advanced Classical Thermodynamics (3) Prerequisite: ENME 315 or equivalent or permission of instructor . This course will focus on the interactions between molecules, which govern thermodynamics relevant to engineering. This course will develop an appreciation for both classical and statistical approaches to thermodynamics for understanding topics such as phase change, wetting of surfaces, chemical reactions, adsorption, and electrochemical processes. The course will investigate statistical approaches and molecular simulation tools to understand how microscopic analysis can be translated to macroscopic problems.
ENME 640 Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics (3) Prerequisite: ENME 700 or equivalent or permission of instructor . Equations governing the conservation of mass, momentum, vorticity and energy in fluid flows. Equations are illustrated by analyzing a number of simple flows. Emphasis on physical understanding facilitating the study of advanced topics in fluid mechanics.
ENME 656 Physics of Turbulent Flow (3) Prerequisites: ENME 640 and 641 or equivalent or permission of instructor. Definition of turbulence and its physical manifestations. Statistical methods and the transport equations of turbulence quantities. Laboratory measurement and computer simulation methods. Isotropic turbulence. Physics of turbulent shear flows.
Graduate Certificate in Engineering Courses
ENNU 450, ENNU 440, ENNU 465 , and one 600 level ENNU elective .
ENNU 440 Nuclear Technology Laboratory (3) One hour of lecture and four hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: MATH240; and PHYS263. Techniques of detecting and making measurements of nuclear or high energy radiation. Radiation safety experiments. Both a subcritical reactor and the swimming pool critical reactor are sources of radiation.
ENNU 450 Basic Nuclear Engineering (3) Required for non-nuclear undergraduates. Elementary nuclear physics, reactor theory, and reactor energy transfer. Steady-state and time dependent neutron distributions in space and energy.
ENNU 465 Nuclear Reactor Safety and Systems (3) Prerequisites: (MATH246; and {PHY 270 and 271 (Formerly PHY 263)}; and ENN 455) or permission of both department and instructor.
Power reactor (BWR,PWR,HTGR) system design and analysis. System specifications and modes of operation. Plant documentation (PSAR,FSAR, etc.). Piping and instrumentation drawings. Theory and application of pump and piping calculations. Steam power plant cycles and calculations. Steam plant equipment (turbines, heaters, condensers, etc.) analysis.
