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ENGR 380A5 - Principles of Nuclear Engineering

  • 3 credits
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Radiation science and protection, nuclear reactor engineering, and introductory operating principles of nuclear power plants, including nuclear processes, nuclear reactor design and operation, the nuclear fuel cycle, and the nuclear power enterprise. Considers critical nuclear news and events.

Prerequisite

MATH 159 (One Year Calculus IB (GT-MA1)) or MATH 160 (Calculus for Physical Scientists I (GT-MA1)); PH 122 (General Physics II (GT-SC1)) or PH 141 (Physics for Scientists and Engineers I (GT-SC1))

Textbooks and Materials

Please check the CSU Bookstore for textbook information. Textbook listings are available at the CSU Bookstore about 3 weeks prior to the start of the term.

Instructors

Vinnie Paglioni

Vincent.Paglioni@colostate.edu

Dr. Vincent “Vinnie” Paglioni’s research is focused on the risk and reliability of complex engineering systems with human involvement. His work seeks to understand human-machine teaming and the risks involved with human operators in complex systems, and ultimately to improve the safety and reliability of critical systems (e.g., energy, transportation, defense).

Dr. Paglioni’s research views the human and machine elements of a system as working symbiotically to complete high-level objectives, which may fail in a variety of manners that must be accounted for in a robust model of system risk. His work focuses on conceptualizing and modeling systems with causal Bayesian networks to visualize and quantify the relationships between risk contributors and objectives/tasks. Much of his work is focused on nuclear power operations, although the principles developed are broadly applicable to many complex engineering systems.

His background is in nuclear and radiological engineering, reliability engineering, and human reliability analysis.

Learn more at: https://www.engr.colostate.edu/se/Vincent-Paglioni/