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Innovations in nuclear engineering distance education at the University of Tennessee
Abstract
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 inmore »
- Authors:
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- Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 22039636
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: PHYSOR-2006: American Nuclear Society's Topical Meeting on Reactor Physics - Advances in Nuclear Analysis and Simulation, Vancouver, BC (Canada), 10-14 Sep 2006; Other Information: Country of input: France; 4 refs.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 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
Citation Formats
Miller, L, Pevey, R, Hines, W, Townsend, L, Upadhyaya, B, Groer, P, Grossbeck, M, and Dodds, H. Innovations in nuclear engineering distance education at the University of Tennessee. United States: N. p., 2006.
Web.
Miller, L, Pevey, R, Hines, W, Townsend, L, Upadhyaya, B, Groer, P, Grossbeck, M, & Dodds, H. Innovations in nuclear engineering distance education at the University of Tennessee. United States.
Miller, L, Pevey, R, Hines, W, Townsend, L, Upadhyaya, B, Groer, P, Grossbeck, M, and Dodds, H. 2006.
"Innovations in nuclear engineering distance education at the University of Tennessee". United States.
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author = {Miller, L and Pevey, R and Hines, W and Townsend, L and Upadhyaya, B and Groer, P and Grossbeck, M and Dodds, H},
abstractNote = {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)},
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