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Department of Nuclear Engineering
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Michael Nastasi
  • The strength and perseverance of our faculty, staff and students have shone through, proving that our nuclear engineering family can do anything we set our minds to.

    — Michael Nastasi
A Message from the Department Head

Impacting the World

Illustration with seal of Department of Energy and American flag.

Former Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy Appointed Professor of Practice

Four group of students looking at a laptop.

Students Tackle Complex Nuclear Security Challenges

Cherenkov radiation facility.

Reactor Safety with Cherenkov Radiation

X. George Xu

Former Student Awarded Lifetime Achievement In Medical Physics

By the Numbers

#5

Graduate Program
Ranked No. 5 (Public)
(U.S. News & World Report, 2021)

Texas A&M University Department of Nuclear Engineering

Enrollment

258

Undergraduate
(Fall 2020, preliminary)

61

Master’s
(Fall 2020, preliminary)

84

Ph.D.
(Fall 2020, preliminary)

Faculty

18

Tenure-Track
Faculty

7

Non Tenure-Track
Faculty

Researchers

141

Graduate Students

9

Research Staff

Degrees Awarded

61

Bachelor’s
(2019-20)

11

Master’s
(2019-20)

8

Ph.D.
(2019-20)

Research Funding

$17M

(Fiscal Year 2019-20)

Research Focus Areas

Advanced Nuclear Reactors

Computational and Data Sciences Applied to National Security and Nuclear Engineering

Fuel Cycles and Materials

Health Physics, Radiation Biology and Medical Physics

Nuclear Power Engineering

Radiation Transport

Security, Safeguards and Nonproliferation

Thermal Hydraulics

Texas A&M University Department of Nuclear Engineering

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