Innovations in nuclear engineering distance education at the University of Tennessee

Conference · Sat Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2006

OSTI ID:22039636

Miller, L; Pevey, R; Hines, W; Townsend, L; Upadhyaya, B; Groer, P; Grossbeck, M; Dodds, H ^[1]

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1. Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 (United States)

The Univ. of Tennessee Dept. of Nuclear Engineering (UTNE) offers both graduate and undergraduate internet-based courses that support a Master of Science (MS) degree and several certificate programs. In particular a MS degree can be conveniently obtained through distance classes. In addition certificates in Nuclear Criticality Safety and in Maintenance and Reliability can be obtained by completing a subset of courses offered for the MS degree. Students enrolled in these courses are predominately located in East Tennessee, but many live throughout the United States and in several foreign countries. An innovation of significant benefit to the UTNE undergraduate program is the implementation of reactor and laboratory experiments that are conducted over the Internet on the PULSTAR reactor at North Carolina State Univ. (NCSU). These experiments are conducted live with video, audio, and data transmission, and to date experiments involving approach to critical, rod calibration using incremental and inverse kinetics methods, thermal calibration of neutron detectors, and reactivity coefficients have been conducted. Neutron scattering experiments are planned for remote control by students. The use of internet-based education has enhanced the undergraduate program at the UTNE, and it has created opportunities for students with Internet access to obtain a quality education in Nuclear Engineering. (authors)

• Research Organization: American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
• OSTI ID: 22039636
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
96 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND PRESERVATION
CALIBRATION
CRITICALITY
DATA TRANSMISSION
EDUCATION
EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
INTERNET
NEUTRON DETECTORS
NEUTRON DIFFRACTION
NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
PULSTAR-RALEIGH REACTOR
REACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS
REACTOR KINETICS
REACTOR MAINTENANCE
REACTOR SAFETY
RELIABILITY
REMOTE CONTROL