Nuclear Engineering and Technology

By: Manish Kumar Sharma M.Tech., Nuclear Engineering and Technology IIT Kanpur Date: July 2, 2010 Comments(1)

Nuclear Engineering is considered to be highly intellectually challenging, exciting and vigorous discipline having variety of applications. Nuclear Engineering has emerged as an important discipline and world is looking towards it, as a promising candidate for the energy and other fields, such as medical applications. The research in fission and fusion is growing with new efforts towards the development of advance technologies. The employment opportunities for the graduating students are in DAE (Department of Atomic Energy, India) and the private sector. The strong flavor of computational skills results in, and not surprisingly, some students joining the leading software companies. In the past four years, there is a resurgence of interest in pursuing higher studies.

Research
Research program in the department (at IIT Kanpur) can be broadly classified in the following areas:
• Image Reconstruction in Tomography
• Fusion and Plasma Physics
• Simulation of Heat Exchanger and Two Phase Flow under Transient Conditions
• Nuclear Reactor Dynamics
• Radiation Detectors using Amorphous Silicon
• Nondestructive Testing

These links may be useful for exploring more about the Nuclear Engineering:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): http://web.mit.edu/nse/

The Ohio State University: http://www.nuclear.osu.edu/

Texas A&M University: http://nuclear.tamu.edu/

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur: http://www.iitk.ac.in/net/

Other Nuclear Engineering Programmes in India: http://www.iitk.ac.in/net/onp.htm