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Resumen de Curriculum development for a nucleartrack in mechanical engineering

John E. Speich, James T. Mcleskey Jr., Mohamed Gad-El-Hak

  • With sponsorship from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) has developed a nuclearengineering track within its undergraduate mechanical engineering program. Eight courses from the mechanical engineering curriculumwere replaced with nuclear engineering courses to create the track. For the benefit of other universities which may be contemplating asimilar undertaking, the present article presents motivation for the track, justifies and describes the content of the nuclear courses thatare included, and explains the courses that were replaced. In contrast to a stand-alone nuclear engineering bachelor’s degree or a minorin nuclear engineering combined with a major in mechanical engineering, the VCU nuclear track equips graduates with both the breadthof an accredited mechanical engineering degree and a focused sequence of nuclear courses that is comparable to those taken in typicalnuclear engineering degree programs. To achieve the goals of the track, the challenges were to determine which courses to remove fromthe curriculum while maintaining an accredited mechanical engineering degree, and which courses to add so that the new sequencecompares well with typical nuclear engineering degree requirements.


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