NPRE Overview
216 Talbot Laboratory
104 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801-2983
nuclear@illinois.edu
Head, Professor Rizwan Uddin
217-333-2295
rizwan@illinois.edu
Download a .pdf version of the 2018 NPRE FACT SHEET Overview. (last updated 10/22/2018)
GROWTH AND RECOGNITIONS
The NPRE Department has doubled its faculty since 2011. Two tenure-track positions are open positions.
2018 National Honors/Awards
- ANS Fellow
- ANS Mark Mills Award
- ANS Arthur Holly Compton Award
- ANS Landis Public Comm and Ed Award
- ANS FED Tech Achievement Award
- ANS Radiation Sci and Tech Award
- SPIE Senior Member
Previous Years Awards, Honors
- 9 ANS/IEEE/APS/AVS Fellows
- 9 ANS Mark Mills Award
- 3 ANS Landis Young Member Award
- 3 ANS MJ Oestmann Award (2015-2017)
- 3 ASEE Glenn Murphy Award
- ANS Arthur Holly Compton Award
- ANS Outstanding Achievement Awards
- (FED, Mat Sci & Tech Div)
- ANS Radiation Sci and Tech Award
- ANS Seaborg Medal
- ANS Young Member Excellence Award
- AESJ Shorei-Sho Award
- DOE Presidential Young Investigator Award
- IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Award
DEGREES OFFERED
- BS, MS and PhD in Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
- Three degree paths: 1) Plasma and Fusion; 2) Power, Safety and the Environment; 3) Radiological, Medical and Instrument Applications
ENROLLMENTS FALL 2018
- 123 Undergraduates - NPRE
- 95 Graduate Students - NPRE
- 30 Graduate Students - Master of Energy Systems
DEGREES GRANTED
* August 2017-May 2018
- 37 Bachelor of Science Degrees
- 16 Master of Science Degrees
- 15 Master of Engineering Degrees
- 16 Doctor of Philosophy Degrees
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPPORT
- 55 Research Assistants
- 7 Teaching Assistants
- 5 Graduate Assistants
- 11 Combined RA/TA/GA
- 4 DOE Fellowships
- 2 NSF Fellowships
- 2 NRC Fellowships
- 8 Internal College/Department Fellowships
- 1 International Fellowship
FACULTY
- 15 FTE Faculty Members (6 Assistant; 3 Associate; 6 Full Professors)
- 2 Open Tenure-track Positions
- 2 Endowed Professorships
- 1 Research Professor
- 7 Affiliate Faculty
- 14 Adjunct Faculty
- 4 Emeritus Faculty
RESEARCH AND ENDOWMENT
- $7M in FY18 sponsored research expenditures (up 13 percent from FY 17)
- $10.7 million, new awards since August 2017
- $800K, new undergraduate scholarships (3x growth in one year)
- $300K, new endowed fellowship
RESEARCH CENTERS AND LABORATORIES, INITIATIVES
- Center for Plasma-Material Interactions
- Computational Plasma Physics Lab
- Functional X-ray Imaging Lab (FXIL)
- HIDRA (tokomak/stellarator)
- High Temperature Corrosion Lab
- High Temperature Nuclear Materials Lab
- Magnetron Sputtering Lab
- Multiphase Thermo-Fluid Dynamics Lab
- Neutron Metrology Lab
- Radiation Detection & Imaging Lab
- Radiological Instrumentation Lab
- Radiation Surface Science and Engineering Lab
- Socio-Technical Risk Analysis (SoTeRiA) Lab
- Soft Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Lab
- Virtual Education and Research Lab
- Micro and Nanotechnology Lab
- Seitz Materials Research Lab
- Beckman Institute for Adv Sci & Tech
- Blue Waters Sustained Petascale Computing
- Faculty & Facilities brochure
North American Technical Center (NATC), Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE)
(The other three such centers are in Vienna, Tokyo and Paris.)
• Industry-sponsored research for plasma-radiation-material interactions, and nuclear power
INSTRUCTIONAL AND RESEARCH AREAS
Three paths for undergraduate concentration:
- Nuclear Power, Safety, Environment, and Reliability/Risk
- Plasma and Fusion Science and Engineering
- Radiological, Medical and Instrument Applications
Graduate research is broadly classified in five areas:
- Nuclear Power (reactor physics, thermalhydraulics, fuel cycle, radiation transport, I&C)
- Plasma and Fusion (modeling, plasma-material interactions)
- Radiological Sciences (detectors, imaging, health physics, medical applications)
- Material Science (nuclear fuels, structural materials)
- Risk and Policy (PRA, safety, energy, arms controls, disarmament, security)