Nuclear Engineering - Graduate Level Distance Education

What is it?
Distance education involves the linking of teacher(s) and student(s), through technology rather than face-to-face interaction. Distance education serves the educational needs of people who cannot come to a Penn State campus due to job, family, time, distance, economic, or other constraints.

Penn State’s first distance education courses, developed over one hundred years ago, used the U.S. mail to link students and teachers. Today, we employ various technologies, including: the Internet, CDs, DVDs, interactive video conferencing, live or on-demand streaming media, videotapes, fax, and e-mail to deliver and facilitate the interaction between learners and teachers. The tremendous technological advances in recent years in computing power, storage technology, and communication links have set the stage for marvelous advances in the quantity and quality of distance education. Penn State faculty and staff are working to bring you new and exciting learning opportunities through distance education.

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.

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Schedule of Previously Offered Distance Education Courses

	Spring	Summer	Fall
2003	Nuc E 428 Nuclear Waste (3 cr) (Scheetz)	Nuc E 497C Radiation Measurement (1 cr) (Brenizer)	Nuc E 523 Environmental Degradation of Materials in a Nuclear Power Plant (3 cr) (Motta/Macdonald)
2003			Nuc E 403 Advanced Reactor Design (3 cr) (Azmy)
2004	Nuc E 521 Neutron Transport Theory (3 cr) (Azmy)	Nuc E 530 Parallel/Vector Algorithms for Scientific Applications (3 cr) (Azmy)	ME 515 Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer (3 cr) (Hochreiter)
2004			Nuc E 408 Radiation Shielding (3 cr) (Azmy)
2005	Nuc E 597D Nuclear Reactor Safety (3 cr) (Hochreiter)	Nuc E 497A RAMP Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering (3 cr) (Ivanov)	Nuc E 497A RAMP Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering (3 cr) (Ivanov)
	Nuc E 420 Radiological Safety (3 cr) (Brenizer)	ME/Nuc E 460 Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering (3 cr) (Kurtz)	Nuc E 525 Monte Carlo Methods (3 cr) (Ivanov)
			Nuc E 512 Fuel Management (3 cr) (Ivanov)
2006	Nuc E 597B Subchannel Reactor Analysis (3 cr) (Hochreiter)	Nuc E 497A RAMP Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering (3 cr) (Ivanov)	Nuc E 497A RAMP Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering (3 cr) (Ivanov)
	Nuc E 403 Advanced Reactor Design (3 cr) (Azmy)	Nuc E 597C Professional Topics in Nuclear Engineering (3 cr)	Nuc E 403 Advanced Reactor Design (3 cr) (Azmy)
	Nuc E 597C Professional Topics in Nuclear Engineering (3 cr)	Nuc E 497C Radiation Measurement (1 cr) Brenizer) On-site at PSU	Nuc E 408 Radiation Shielding (3 cr) (Azmy)
	Nuc E 597K Reactor Kinetics (3 cr) (Ivanov)		Nuc E 501 Reactor Engineering (3 cr) (Hochreiter)
			Nuc E 597C Professional Topics in Nuclear Engineering (3 cr)
2007	Nuc E 497A RAMP Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering (3 cr) (Ivanov)	Nuc E 497A RAMP Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering (3 cr) (Ivanov)	Nuc E 497A RAMP Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering (3 cr) (Ivanov)
	Nuc E 597C Professional Topics in Nuclear Engineering (3 cr)	Nuc E 597C Professional Topics in Nuclear Engineering (3 cr)	Nuc E 597C Professional Topics in Nuclear Engineering (3 cr)
	Nuc E 597D Subchannel Reactor Analysis (3 cr) (Hochreiter)	Nuc E 497C Radiation Measurement (1 cr) Brenizer) On-site at PSU	Nuc E 408 Radiation Shielding (3 cr) (Azmy)
	Nuc E 420 Radiological Safety (3 cr) (Brenizer)	Nuc E 512 Fuel Management (3 cr) (Ivanov)	Nuc E 428 Nuclear Waste (3 cr) (Scheetz)
			Nuc E 525 Monte Carlo Methods (3 cr) (Ivanov)

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