NSE at a glance
HIGHLIGHTS
Degrees offered
- Nuclear Science & Engineering | Bachelors, Masters, Nuclear Engineer, PhD, ScD
- Engineering | Bachelors
- Computational Nuclear Science & Engineering | Joint PhD
Fall 2020 enrollment = 121
- 95 Graduate students
- 26 Undergraduates
Degrees granted, AY 2019–20 = 34
- 9 SB
- 10 SM
- 15 PhD
Graduate student support
- 74 RAs. 3.5 TAs. 8 Internal NSE fellowships
- 12 Competitive external (non-MIT) fellowships
- 5.5 MIT-awarded fellowships + self-supported
- 4 International-sponsored
Faculty + Academic Research Staff = 52.5
- 18.5 Tenured & Tenure-track Professors
• 5 assistant, 5 associate, 8.5 full professors
• 5 new faculty hired in the last 5 years - 1 Joint Professor
- 5 Active Emeritus Professors
- 1 Visiting Scientists
- 1 Principal Research Scientist
- 8 Research Scientists
- 18 Post-doctoral Fellows/Associates
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
Executive Education
- Reactor Technology Course for Utility Executives
- Nuclear Plant Safety Course
- Risk-Informed Operational Decision Management
Research funding = $26.4 million in FY20
NSE-Affiliated Research Centers
- Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES)
- Plasma Science and Fusion Center
- Industrial Performance Center
Research Laboratories
- Center for Science and Technology with Accelerators and Radiation
- Concrete Sustainability Hub
- H.H.Uhlig Corrosion Laboratory
- Laboratory for Advanced Modeling and Simulation (with 3 high-speed parallel computer clusters)
- Laboratory for Electrochemical Interfaces
- Laboratory for Innovation in Fusion Technologies
- Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy
- Laboratory for Reactor Thermal Hydraulics
- MIT Computational Reactor Physics Group
- Quantum Engineering Group
- Quantum Matter Group
Collaborating MIT Academic & Research Units
- Departments of Biological Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Political Science, and Science, Technology and Society
- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
- Laboratory for Nuclear Science
- MIT Energy Initiative
- MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (6 MW reactor)
- Research Laboratory of Electronics
- Schwarzman College of Computing
Indicators of Quality
- 6 National Academy of Engineering
- 6 National Faculty Early Career Awards
- 11 Graduate students holding nationally competitive fellowships
Major Partnerships
- Accident Tolerant Fuels consortium (with AREVA, U. Wisconsin, PSU and TAMU)
- Fluoride-Salt High Temperature Reactor Consortium (with U of Wisconsin & UC Berkeley)
- Institute for Nuclear Power Operations
- National Nuclear Security Administration
- US National Labs: INL, ORNL, Sandia, Argonne, LLNL, BNL
October 2020
Department of Nuclear Science & Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, 24-107 (map)
Cambridge, MA 02139
nse-info@mit.edu