<p>Hopefully the title has lured some people. Common, lets really make it official (as in the one-stop place for everything u want to know in nuclear engineering at MIT)</p>
<p>After having listed out my real areas of interest in physics, I understood I was looking at a nuclear engineering degree program. And a couple of topics corresponded to microbiology.
I’ve read this: Course</a> 22: Nuclear Science and Engineering
And this: <a href="http://www.trtr.org/Links/finalblue.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.trtr.org/Links/finalblue.pdf</a></p>
<p>The latter is a bit worrying but the former is very exciting. So if there are nuclear engineers out there, please tell us how u feel about the course. My psychic powers tell me the first response would be … ‘It’s challenging, rigorous, hard…’ Anyway, we need real life situations to support those adjectives. So cough up!
This could make up for the lack of Course 22 buffs on the blogs.</p>
<p>Superb link: FAQ</a> | Careers | MIT Dept of Nuclear Science and Engineering
FAQ on the degree.</p>
<p>MIT students can work in the nuclear reactor (whether or not you're 22 - I know a Course 18 guy in there), but you can only really get in freshman year, so look into that!</p>
<p>Also realize, though, that if you do work in the reactor, you're pretty much not going to UROP. Ever.</p>
<p>U mean that if i am not a course 22 and if i opt to work in the reactor I would not be able to do UROP, right?
Just asked to make sure coz the site mentioned that u would be able to do UROP as part of course.</p>
<p>The thing about working at the reactor is it takes up as much time as a UROP - and most students don't have time for 2 UROPs =P</p>
<p>Oh :0o. I get it. Anyway-from the look of it, the program is very versatile, quite broad. Not just the power generation aspect of nuclear science. Can't find a similar combination in any other colleges i checked. Approximately, what percentage of folks in mit take nuc. eng. ?</p>
<p>It's a pretty small department -- last year they graduated 20 undergrads. (Numbers for every department here</a>.)</p>
<p>Thanks for the link mollie. It is a really miniscule dept. I think most people prefer sciences (physics) when it comes to NS & eng.</p>
<p>There are some departments with just one or two graduates in total. I suppose those ppl took those majors as a second one?</p>
<p>Sometimes, but not always =D</p>