NPRE Prof. Rizwan Uddin and Adjunct Professor William R. Roy have been honored with the 2011 American Nuclear Society Student Chapter Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
NPRE Department Head James F. Stubbins has been honored with the Engineering Council Award
for Excellence in Advising.
An NPRE alumnus (MS 83, PhD 87), Uddin has been on faculty in the department since 1996, with research interests in advanced theoretical and CFD computational methods; radiation transport and reactor physics; reactor engineering; multiphase flow; reliability and risk analysis; and virtual reactor simulation.
Teaching courses including NPRE 100, Orientation to Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, NPRE 455, Neutron Diffusion & Transport, and NPRE 501, Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering, Uddin has been included on the List of Teachers Ranked Excellent for over a decade.
Appointed as an NPRE affiliate faculty member in 2004 then an adjunct professor in 2007, Roy teaches NPRE 442, Radioactive Waste Management. He has been included on the List of Teachers Ranked Excellent the last three years for teaching the course.
Roy is a Senior Geochemist for the Illinois State Geological Survey.
Stubbins has been on faculty in the department since 1980, and has been NPRE Department Head since 1999.
The top 10 percent of engineering advisors are chosen for the Engineering Council’s advising award, recognizing the important role that advisors play in the academic planning process of every engineering student on campus. Students nominate the candidates.