University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Grainger College of Engineering
Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering

NPRE Fact Sheet

NPRE Quick Facts

Degrees Offered

  • BS, MS and PhD in Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
  • Master's in Engineering
    • Energy Systems
    • Plasma Engineering
  • Three degree paths:
    • Plasma and Fusion
    • Power, Safety and the Environment
    • Radiological, Medical and Instrument Applications
  • Five research areas:
    • Materials Science
    • Nuclear Power
    • Plasma Physics and Fusion
    • Radiological Science
    • Reliability and Risk

Degrees Granted

* August 2021-May 2022

  • 23 Bachelor of Science Degrees
  • 11 Master of Science Degrees
  • 9 Master of Engineering Degrees
  • 10 Doctor of Philosophy Degrees

Graduate Student Support

  • 60 Research Assistants
  • 6 Teaching Assistants
  • 13 Combined RA/TA/Departmental Fellowships
  • 9 DOE-1, NSF-2, NRC-5, NASA-1 (and other prestigious national fellowships
  • 1 International Fellowship

Faculty

  • 13 FTE Faculty Members (1 Assistant; 6 Associate; 6 Full Professors)
  • Multiple Open Tenure-track Positions
  • 3 Endowed Professorships
  • 2 Research Professors
  • 22 Affiliate/adjunct Faculty
  • 5 Emeritus Faculty

Research Endowments

  • $8.9 M in FY22 sponsored research expenditures
  • $5.3 million in new awards since August 2021

When you’re an electrical engineer, you’re behind the electronic systems that we use every day and that are propelling us into the future. You work in areas like energy and power, circuits, optics, remote sensing, communications, networking and computing systems, and much, much more. To learn all this you take classes like signal processing, circuits and electromechanics, and green electric energy. You can do a lot with this degree, including jobs like design engineer, technology analyst, system engineer at companies like Microsoft, GE Energy, Texas Instruments, and Goldman Sachs. Our electrical engineering grads make an average starting salary of $69,881.

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Research Centers, Laboratories and Initiatives

 

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Growth and Recognition

Recent Industrial Partnerships
  • Applied Materials
  • ASML
  • DuPont
  • Exelon Corporation
  • General Fusion
  • General Motors
  • LAM Research
  • Lockheed Martin
  • Lyten
  • POSCO
  • South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Co.
  • Starfire Industries, LLC
  • Tokamak Energy
  • Tokyo Electron Ltd.

National Awards

  • 11 ANS Mark Mills Award (3 in the past 5 years)
  • 10 ANS/IEEE/APS/AVS Fellows
  • 3 ANS Landis Young Member Award
  • 3 ANS MJ Oestmann Award (2015-2017)
  • 3 ASEE Glenn Murphy Award
  • 2 ANS Radiation Science and Technology Award
  • ANS Arthur Holly Compton Award
  • ANS Don Miller Award
  • ANS Outstanding Achievement Award (FED, Mat Sci & Tech Div)
  • ANS Landis Public Communication and Education Award
  • ANS Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award
  • ANS Mishima Award
  • ANS Seaborg Medal
  • ANS Young Member Excellence Award
  • AESJ Shorei-Sho Award
  • AVS Gaede-Langmuir Award
  • DOE Presidential Young Investigator Award
  • IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Award

127

NPRE Undergraduates

101

NPRE Graduate Students

41

Master of Engineering
Graduate Students

Enrollments Fall 2022

General Questions

Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering
Suite 100 Talbot Laboratory, MC-234
104 South Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801

217/333-2295
fax: 217/333-2906

nuclear@illinois.edu

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