StudyQA — Bachelor: Nuclear Engineering — Pennsylvania State University (Page 3)

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The overall educational objective of the Nuclear Engineering program is to help prepare our graduates to function effectively in the marketplace in a wide range of career paths in Nuclear Engineering. The technical part of the curriculum, emphasizes nuclear power engineering, which refers to complex systems used to generate electricity. Because of our strong educational and research emphasis in nuclear power engineering is strong, and because a shortage for this expertise exists in the industry, generally the industry values our graduates highly. We recognize that nuclear science, including nuclear security and non-proliferation, is an important growth area. We constantly assess and review the needs of our undergraduate students and their most frequent employers and use this feedback to consider revisions to our curriculum so that it is responsive to the needs of our constituents.

Program Educational Objectives:

Accordingly, we will endeavor to maintain and provide a curriculum that prepares our graduates such that:

Within two to three years of graduation, we expect the majority of our B.S. graduates to:
- be working in industry, especially related to nuclear power engineering,
- be working in government agencies or national laboratories,
- be pursuing advanced degrees.
We expect that our students will continue to develop professionally and establish themselves in their careers and in this way may take the opportunity to further their education and training by attending graduate school or by pursuing other professional development.

Course Nbr	Course Title	Typically Offered
299	Foreign Studies	Spring Only
301	Fundamentals of Reactor Physics	Fall Only
302	Introduction to Reactor Design	Spring Only
309	Analytical Techniques for Nuclear Concept	Fall Only
310	Issues in Nuclear Engineering
399	Foreign Studies	Spring Only
401	Introduction to Nuclear Engineering *** view multiple offerings	Fall Only
401	Introduction to Nuclear Engineering	Spring Only
403	Advanced Reactor Design	All Semesters
403	Advanced Reactor Design	Summer & Fall
403H	Advanced Reactor Design *** view multiple offerings	Fall Only
405	Nuclear and Radiochemistry *** view multiple offerings	Fall Only
406	Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics
406	Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics	Spring Only
409	Nuclear Materials *** view multiple offerings	Spring Only
420	Radiological Safety *** view multiple offerings	Fall & Spring
428	Radioactive Waste Control	Spring Only
430	Design Principles of Reactor Systems *** view multiple offerings	Summer & Fall
431	Nuclear Reactor Core Design Synthesis
441	Nuclear Security Threat Analysis and Assessments *** view multiple offerings
442	Nuclear Security System Design
450	Radiation Detection and Measurement	Spring Only
451	Experiments in Reactor Physics	Fall Only
470	Power Plant Simulation	Fall Only
494	Senior Thesis
496	Independent studies	All Semesters

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TOEFL: A minimum TOEFL score of 80 on the Internet-based TOEFL or 550 on the paper exam (code #2660)
IELTS: A minimum IELTS score of 6.5 on the academic test
Penn State requires first-year international students to submit an official score from the SAT or ACT examination.Please note: The writing component of standardized tests (SAT or ACT) is not required. The writing component will not be used as part of our evaluation. If your test scores include the writing component, by all means, have those scores sent to Penn State. Additionally, we do not require SAT Subject Tests.