Practical Experience Integration into the Univ. of NV, Reno Nuclear Packaging Graduate Certificate - 18210

Conference · Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018

OSTI ID:22975382

Greiner, Miles ^[1]; Liu, Yung ^[2]; Shuler, James ^[3]

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1. University of Nevada, Reno (United States)
2. Argonne National Laboratory (United States)
3. US DOE (United States)

In 2015, the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) Mechanical Engineering (ME) Department began offering a 9-credit, regionally accredited Graduate Certificate in Nuclear Packaging (GCNP). The certificate's program educational objectives are to provide the necessary applied knowledge and skills that mechanical, materials, or nuclear engineers require to be successful as nuclear packaging designers, analysts and users. This includes knowing how to apply required quality assurance methods, regulations, and design goals. It also includes gaining added depth in those required topics, and/or a breadth beyond those topics, to support the certificate holder to excel in the nuclear packaging industry. The GCNP courses draw heavily on nuclear packaging safety content that experts at Argonne, Laurence Livermore and Savannah River National Laboratories developed and taught over the past 20 years with support from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Packaging and Certification Program (PCP). The national laboratories continue to teach the GCNP required courses, which present the essential information, and several elective courses. UNR offers some elective courses. Oak Ridge and Sandia National Laboratories are currently developing new elective courses. This paper describes the development and requirements of a new 3-credit elective course UNR is developing, entitled Nuclear Packaging Internship (ME 699). The student learning outcome of that course is to provide project-based supervised practical training at a national laboratory or DOE site that contributes to the student's depth and breadth of nuclear packaging knowledge and skills. (authors)

• Research Organization: WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
• OSTI ID: 22975382
• Report Number(s): INIS-US-20-WM-18210; TRN: US21V0196015424
• Resource Relation: Conference: WM2018: 44. Annual Waste Management Conference, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 18-22 Mar 2018; Other Information: Country of input: France; 4 refs.; Available online at: https://www.xcdsystem.com/wmsym/2018/index.html
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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