Category Archives: Students
Destiny White’s Research, Experiences Emphasize Importance of Empathy in Nuclear Engineering
Master’s student Destiny White blends nuclear justice into NE education, ensuring that nuclear engineers ethically achieve their energy and defense goals.
NE Students Poised to Benefit from Orano’s Facility
Orano USA is building a centrifuge uranium enrichment facility in Oak Ridge that will benefit UT students through internships and other collaborations.
Y-12 NE TAP Boosts UT Student-Career Pipeline
The Y-12 Technology Accelerator Program gives NE students the chance to experience careers in nuclear security while contributing to the sector’s advancement.
Sophomore Samuel Haid Contributes to ITER Research
Samuel Haid unravels the factors leading to formation of tungsten “fuzz” and helium bubbles that could threaten ITER’s fusion reactions.
Positive Reactors: NE Students Study Abroad
12 students from the Department of Nuclear Engineering visited the Czech Republic and Austria for hands-on experience in the field and cultural immersion.
The Nuclear Soccer Referee
Graduate research assistant Promise Adebayo-Ige is pursuing his dual passions of studying nuclear engineering and becoming a professional soccer official.
UT Senior Design Project team wins 2023 ANS Student Design Competition
Four UT NE students won the 2023 American Nuclear Society Student Design Competition with a subcritical assembly proposal created for their Senior Design Project.
Nuclear Engineering Team Collaborates for Dual Best Paper Awards
Nuclear engineering Associate Professor Nick Brown and colleagues collaborated on research that earned two Best Paper awards.
Houston Earns Prestigious Nuclear Nonproliferation International Safeguards Fellowship
UT nuclear engineering student Emma Houston earned a highly coveted Nuclear Nonproliferation International Safeguards Graduate Fellowship.
Another Strong Year for Department in Nuclear Engineering University Program Awards
UT’s nuclear engineering department did very well in earning DOE-funded Nuclear Engineering University Program awards.