Program Information

Background and Overview

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Sunday, June 6, 2004, ran an article by Dave Copeland entitled “Nukes lacking people power.” A quote from Ted Quinn, co-chair of the American Nuclear Society’s special commission on workforce development, says “The average age in plants today is 49 to 50, and in five years, those people are going to be retiring, so we have a pretty big shortage of workers coming up.”

To help address this need, the Office of Continuing & Distance Education in Engineering and the Department of Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering has developed a series of courses, that are delivered live and/or on-demand video over the Internet, and will lead to a Master’s of Engineering in Nuclear Engineering degree. The Master of Engineering degree requires 27 credits of course work plus 3 credits of research/paper writing to complete the degree.