NSE at a glance
HIGHLIGHTS
Degrees offered
- Nuclear Science & Engineering | Bachelors, Masters, Nuclear Engineer, PhD, ScD
- Engineering | Bachelors
- LGO-NSE Dual MBA-Masters of Science Program
- Computational Nuclear Science & Engineering | Joint PhD
Fall 2023 enrollment = 165
- 136 Graduate students
- 29 Undergraduates
Degrees granted, AY 2022–23 = 38
- 9 SB
- 16 SM
- 13 PhD
Graduate student supported = 131
- 91 RAs. 5 TAs. 10 Internal NSE fellowships
- 13 Competitive external (non-MIT) fellowships
- 12 MIT-awarded fellowships
- 5 self-supported
Faculty + Academic Research Staff = 58
- 20 Tenured & Tenure-track Professors
• 3 assistant, 7 associate, 10 full professors
• 10 new faculty hired in the last 10 years - 3 Joint Professor
- 3 Active Emeritus Professors
- 1 Visiting Professor
- 3 Lecturers
- 1 Principal Research Scientist
- 3 Research Scientists
- 23 Post-doctoral Fellows/Associates
Indicators of Quality
- 6 National Academy of Engineering
- 8 National Faculty Early Career Awards
- 13 Graduate students holding nationally competitive fellowships
- 86% of NSE faculty with an award
- 2021 Awards
Instructional & Research Areas
- Advanced reactor design and innovation
- Nuclear fuel cycle and waste management technology
- Plasma physics and fusion
- Materials in extreme environments
- Advanced computation and simulation
- Radiation sources, detection, and control
- Nuclear security
- Nuclear economics, management, and policy
- Quantum engineering
Professional Education
- Reactor Technology Course for Utility Executives
- Nuclear Energy: Facts and Issues
- Nuclear Energy: Science, Systems and Society
- Nuclear Plant Safety Course
- Nuclear Operational Risk Management
Research funding = $ 28.36 million in FY23
NSE-Affiliated Research Centers
- Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems
- Plasma Science and Fusion Center
- MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (6 MW reactor)
- Industrial Performance Center
Research Laboratories
- Center for Science and Technology with Accelerators and Radiation
- Computational Reactor Physics Group
- Concrete Sustainability Hub
- H.H.Uhlig Corrosion Laboratory
- Laboratory for Advanced Modeling and Simulation
- Laboratory for Electrochemical Interfaces
- Laboratory for Innovation in Fusion Technologies
- Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy
- Laboratory for Reactor Thermal Hydraulics
- Nuclear Innovation in Fission Technologies
- Quantum Engineering Group
- Quantum Matter Group
Collaborating MIT Academic & Research Units
- Departments of Biological Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, and Political Science
- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- Laboratory for Nuclear Science
- MIT Energy Initiative
- MIT Quest for Intelligence
- Research Laboratory of Electronics
- MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
Major Partnerships
- Advanced Nuclear and Production Experts Group)
- Fluoride-Salt High Temperature Reactor Consortium
- Institute of Nuclear Power Operations
- National Nuclear Security Administration
- US National Labs: INL, ORNL, Sandia, Argonne, LLNL, BNL
November 2023
Department of Nuclear Science & Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, 24-107 (map)
Cambridge, MA 02139
nse-info@mit.edu