MSE & NE students Attend the USA Science and Engineering Festival
NE Grad named to Forbes 30 under 30 in Energy
Jacob DeWitte is a founder and the CEO of UPower. He graduated with a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Florida in 2008 and has been named to the 2014 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the energy… Read More
UF Nuclear Engineering Team Wins the ANS Design Competition
Every year, the American Nuclear Society (ANS) holds a design competition to select the best Student design projects. A panel of industry judges reviews the submitted projects and selects two undergraduate and two graduate teams to make oral presentations in… Read More
Dr. Andreas Enqvist joins UF MSE as Assistant Professor in Nuclear Engineering
Andreas Enqvist, Ph.D., received a Master of Science in physics at Gothenburg University, Sweden and his doctorate in Nuclear Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) in 2010. Dr. Enqvist worked as a postdoc and assistant research scientist from 2010… Read More
UF receives $1.6M award from DTRA to develop low-cost radiation detectors
James Baciak, Ph.D., Jiangeng Xue, Ph.D., and Juan Nino, Ph.D., received a Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) award for $1.6 Million to develop organic photodiodes as low-cost, radiation-resistant alternatives to traditional photomultiplier tubes for next-generation gamma-ray spectrometers.
UF receives $1.8M from DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy for R&D
Researchers in the Nuclear Engineering Program at the UF Department of Materials Science & Engineering have received Department of Energy University Program grants for conducting research to mitigate the Fuel Cladding Chemical Interactions (FCCI) in a sodium-cooled fast reactor and… Read More