Nuclear Engineering

Graduate student Ronald Gatchalian is using machine-learning techniques to predict the physics parameters of a source-driven reactor configuration in a subcritical domain, which can increase safety while reducing experimentation costs and time.

Several nuclear engineering students were recognized at the annual and student meeting of the State of Texas Chapter of the Health Physics Society held in San Antonio.

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents approved a $15.1 million budget to begin construction on the new Nuclear Engineering Education Building, which will add more than 25,000 square feet of research and office space to the Department of Nuclear Engineering.

Texas A&M University, The Ohio State University and Idaho National Laboratory researchers are using fiber optics to develop and demonstrate gamma thermometers that are capable of high-resolution power measurements that provide more accuracy at lower costs.

Matt Fransted won The Association of Former Students’ 12 Under 12 Young Alumni Spotlight for 2023.

Two nuclear engineering faculty, Dr. Karen Kirkland and Dr. Sunil Chirayath, were recognized at the annual Texas A&M University College of Engineering Faculty Awards Banquet.

Jordan Hillis and Dr. Craig Marianno collaborated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa to use nuclear science in a novel method to deter rhino poaching and help restore South Africa’s dwindling rhino population.

Dillon Caldwell, a sophomore in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University, won third place in the 2022 Raymond Ideas Challenge hosted by the McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship.

Nuclear security and plutonium science expert Dr. Siegfried Hecker will lead the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Board of Sponsors.