Research Facilities in Nuclear Engineering

Students in the Nuclear Engineering Option or Nuclear Science and Engineering Minor can participate in ongoing faculty and graduate research using a variety of modern research tools and facilities. Program faculty are involved with the UMass Lowell Radiation Laboratory which includes a 1 MW research reactor, a Co-60 irradiation facility, a 5 MeV van de Graaf accelerator, and a variety of radiation counting laboratories. The Center for Advanced Materials also houses state-of-the-art analytical equipment for the micro-characterization of materials. In addition to a large array of networked computer facilities throughout the University, the Department of Chemical Engineering also maintains a computer laboratory where students can work individually or in small teams to address a variety of homework and design projects, or perform advanced research. One of the major strengths of the UMass Lowell nuclear program lies in its emphasis in advanced computational techniques, with special focus towards the development and application of numerical methods for the analysis of nuclear systems.