THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Nuclear Engineering Program

206 West 18th Avenue

Columbus, OH 43210-1154

TEL: (614) 292-8519 FAX: (614) 292-7559

http://rclsgi.eng.ohio-state.edu/nuclear

E-Mail: nuclear@osu.edu

NE Graduates

 

Graduate Student Enrollment: 23

[B.Sc. (NE Option) in Engineering or Engineering Physics

M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering]

ABET Accreditation: B.Sc. in Engineering with Nuclear Option

 

 

Audeen W. Fentiman, Associate Professor and Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Nuclear Engineering (614-292-7930); [fentiman.1@osu.edu]; Ph.D. The Ohio State University 1982; Nuclear waste management, fuel management, criticality safety. 

Brian K Hajek, Research Scientist and Associate Chair, Nuclear Engineering (614-292-5405); [hajek.1@osu.edu]; M.Sc. The Ohio State University 1972; Reactor operations and regulation, licensing and safety, personnel training, artificial intelligence applied to plant operations. 

Tunc Aldemir, Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering (614-292-4627); [aldemir.1@osu.edu]; Ph.D. University of Illinois 1978; Risk analysis, numerical methods, systems dynamics of nuclear plants, reactor physics, in-core fuel management, risk assessment, inherently safe reactors. 

Robert E. Bailey, Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering (614-292-5485); [bailey.13@osu.edu]; Ph.D. Purdue University 1963; Energy impact assessments, measurement with nuclear radiation, neutron radiography. 

Thomas E. Blue, Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering (614-292-0629); [blue.1@osu.edu]; Ph.D. University of Michigan 1978; Radiation protection, boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT), development of an accelerator-based neutron source for BNCT, nuclear instrumentation, radon transport and measurement. 

Richard N. Christensen, Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering (614-292-0445); [christensen.3@osu.edu]; Ph.D. Stanford University 1974; Heat transfer, boiling and condensation, nuclear energy, inherently safe reactors and passive safety systems.

Richard S. Denning, Professor, Nuclear Engineering (614-292-5736); [denning.8@osu.edu]; Ph.D. University of Florida 1967; Reactor safety, probabilistic risk assessment, behavior of severe accidents in nuclear plants, design of inherently safe reactors.

Don W. Miller, Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (614-292-7979); [miller.68@osu.edu]; Ph.D. The Ohio State University 1971; Reactor instrumentation, reactor dynamics and control, nuclear medical instrumentation, dynamic safety systems, safety critical software, digital x-ray radiography.

Other Faculty

Shoichiro Nakamura, Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering (614-292-0121); [nakamura@lcro.eng.ohio-state.edu]; Ph.D. Kyoto University 1967; Computational fluid mechanics, reactor physics, numerical analysis and computational methods.

Giorgio Rizzoni, Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering (614-292-3331); [rizzoni.1@osu.edu]; Ph.D. University of Michigan 1986; System simulation and modeling, fault detection.