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Nuclear Engineering has demonstrated vast potential for growth in power generation, medicine, industrial processes, plasmas, space technologies, and national defense. The field will become even more important and diverse in the future. Nuclear engineers will contribute to advanced technologies such as advanced fission and fusion power generators, nuclear medicine, more powerful computational methods, deep-space probes and propulsion systems, semiconductor device processes, improved food safety, advanced materials processing and characterization, advanced imaging, the safe treatment and disposal of spent nuclear fuel, and new forms of industrial gauges.

Contact Info:
ne@purdue.edu 

2023 GRADUATE DATA
$71,371 Average Starting Salary

within 6 months of graduation

93% Average Placement Rate

in industry or graduate school

TOPIC AREAS in Nuclear engineering

radiation detection and instrumentation
Reactor Physics
Nuclear Power Systems
Nuclear Fusion
nuclear materials
Neural Fuzzy Approaches
Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics
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top employers

Constellation energy nuclear group llc – cneg
bechtel corporation
evergy
savannah river regulatory commission
united states air force
framatome
ge – general electric
entergy
naval nuclear laboratory
U.S. Nuclear regulatory commission
westinghouse
bwxt

top industries

Energy, Oil, & Gas
Engineering Services

Government & Military Services
Manufacturing and Machinery
Research