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No. 6
overall ranking among graduate nuclear engineering programs in the nation
U.S. News & World Report, 2024 Rankings
New Faces of NPRE
NPRE has hired five new faculty this year. With varying research interests and backgrounds, these additions will help bring the department into the future and raise NPRE to new heights.
Ruzic and IPI featured in Limitless
NPRE professor David Ruzic and his Illinois Plasma Institute have been featured in the Fall 2023 issue of Limitless, the Grainger College of Engineering's biannual magazine. In the article, Ruzic talks about IPI's mission to "rethink existing pathways to commercialization of new technologies developed in academic research settings.”
Liebenberg leads sustainability competition
NPRE professor Leon Liebenberg is the co-founder and organizer of the Reimagine Our Future sustainability competition, which recently brought students, faculty, and staff in Illinois and around the world to the UIUC campus. The event aims to inspire and empower students by challenging them to ideate solutions for a more sustainable world.
Nuclear-Powered UIUC
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working with Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation, is working on a project that would bring a microreactor to campus.
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Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering (NPRE) Admitted Student Info Session
ADMITTED STUDENTS: Sign up below for an Admitted Student Info Sessions, where you can learn more about the department and how to prepare for your first semester. Registration links will go to your My Illini account. The links are calendar view, so you will get to choose which date to register for once in your My Illini account.
Admitted students registration
Grainger Engineering's Plan a Visit (for admitted and prospective students)
Illinois Plasma Institute leads new era of translational research
Combining the best of both worlds, IPI provides a space where forward-thinking industrial partners are able to pair their own research and development staff with academic researchers closer to the underlying science behind a new technology.
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Looking for a Postdoc opportunity?
NPRE has multiple positions open for postdoctoral research.
Energize Your Future Faculty Career, Here.
Join our highly-ranked department. NPRE is currently hiring for multiple open-rank faculty positions.
Featured Faculty
Tomasz Kozlowski
Professor and Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs
The Analysis of Reactor Transients and Stability (ARTS) group headed by Professor Kozlowski performs deterministic safety analysis by developing and validating advanced methods to accurately determine reactor safety margins and reactor behavior. By performing high-fidelity numerical predictions of the reactor behavior in abnormal transient scenarios of safety significance, our work supports the nuclear reactor safety analysis, and increases the fidelity of primary system simulation.