minor code: NCHE
Faculty Steward: Andersen
The Department of Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering at New Mexico State University offers a minor in Nuclear Chemical Engineering. This program focuses on the front and back ends of the nuclear fuel cycle (i.e., the processing of nuclear materials before and after the nuclear reactor). A student must pass 18 credits from the list below with a grade of C or better. No courses may be taken S/U. All prerequisites for the classes must be met or the consent of the instructor obtained before enrolling in a class.
Available to undergraduate students.
Two (2) required courses: 6 cr.
- CHME 470. Introduction to Nuclear Energy
- CHME 476. Nuclear Fuel Cycles
Four (4) elective courses selected from: 12 cr.
- C E 452 Geohydrology
- C E 470. Design of Municipal and Hazardous Waste Landfills
- CHEM 422 Environmental Chemistry
- CHEM 451 Special Topics (f-element related)
- CHEM 471 Advanced Integrated Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Lab
- CHEM 473 Radiochemistry
- CHME 307. Transport Operations III: Staged Operations
- CHME 370V, Discovery and Use of Radioactive Materials
- CHME 471. Health Physics
- CHME 479. Degradation and Corrosion of Materials*
- CHME 491. Special Topics (nuclear-related)
- CHME 497 Undergraduate Special Topics (nuclear-related)
- CHME 498. Undergraduate Research (nuclear-related)
- ENVS 312. Emergency Response to Hazardous Materials Incidents
- ENVS 452. Geohydrology
- ENVS 462. Sampling and Analysis of Environmental Contaminants
- ENVS 470. Environmental Impacts of Land Use and Contaminant Remediation
- ENVE 455. Solid and Hazardous Waste Systems Design
- GEOL 312 Minerology
- GEOL 360 General Geochemistry
- GEOL 452 Geohydrology
- GEOL 462 Analytical Geochemistry
- GEOL 465 Isotope Geochemistry
- GEOL 480 Seminar (f-element related)
- GEOL 520 Special Topics (f-element related)
- ME 456 Introduction to Robotics
- ME 487 Mechatronics
- MGMT 344 Production and Operations Management
- MGMT 351 Supply Chain Management
- MGMT 449 Strategic Management (critical materials related)
- PHYS 303V Energy and Society in the New Millennium
- PHYS 315. Modern Physics
- PHYS 325 Intermediate Experimental Physics
- PHYS 454. Intermediate Modern Physics I
- PHYS 455. Intermediate Modern Physics II
- PHYS 493 Experimental Nuclear Physics
- SOIL 424 Soil Chemistry (cannot receive credit for both SOIL 424 and SOIL 479)
- SOIL 479. Environmental Soil Chemistry
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| NMSU CHME students pursuing a minor in nuclear energy in containment at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station during an outage in 2013. |
