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Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1 hour / session
Recitations to be scheduled with TA on a weekly basis.
There is no required text for this course.
There will be weekly assignments to be done for the next class depending on task.
| Activities | Percentages |
|---|---|
| Class Participation | 20% |
| Personal Work Contributed to Project | 50% |
| Final Project Report | 20% |
| Oral Presentation Quality | 10% |
Problems in nuclear engineering often involve applying knowledge from many disciplines simultaneously in achieving satisfactory solutions. Each student will be asked to support a team design project that integrates the profession of nuclear engineering. This term's project description is attached. It involves developing an experiment to measure a phenomenon that is import to the future of pebble bed reactors. The challenge is to identify the critical parameters, design the experiment, build the apparatus, and conduct the experiment reporting results to the MIT community.
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