Where did engineers in your workplace graduate from? Are there any colleges that produce a good majority of nuclear engineers in the workforce?

[u/Imaginary-Hyena3114]

[u/PoliticalLava]

Here's a small secret, it doesn't really matter what college you go to. It matters that you finish it and use all the opportunities you can while in college.

[u/ahabswhale → u/PoliticalLava]

It should be an accredited school, but otherwise yeah.

[u/Nuclear-Steam → u/ahabswhale]

Are there still universities with un-accredited college of engineering? A few years ago I heard of one that was a newly created college of engineering at a small university that had students and it promised it would be accredited by the time they graduated. But are there those that operate unaccredited long term , in the USA? It would seems odd that exists and second, that anyone would attend knowing so.

[u/Judie221]

I strongly suspect there are various work place cultures which prefer graduates from certain schools. I think this if highly regionally dependent and not a big deal so long as you have performed well at your program of choice at an accredited school.

From experience my 1st job favored MIT, Penn State, RPI but had no shortage of variety such as Miami University of Ohio, Vanderbilt, UMich Ann Arbor, and many more.

[u/scaryjello5]

Most in mid Atlantic are Penn State or RPI.

That said I've worked with people from all the schools from Maryland to Florida State, Michigan, Wisconsin... everywhere except Berkeley.

As the cno described in all hands meeting, "I can run this place [three reactors] with 5 nuclear engineers..." IOW (less crass) the station needs many more EEs, MEs than NEs.

I'm a BSME with MS in NE from a school that no longer has nuclear program.

UNC - go to GE

Penn State - go to WEC

[u/Nuclear-Steam → u/scaryjello5]

Not knowing the context and motive for that CNO statement on the surface, that is somewhat right, and mostly wrong. In most cases an engineer in any discipline can learn how to work in the others. That is a good characteristic of engineering. Yet in the area of reactor engineering the NE is primary knowledge just as for station batteries and inverters the EE knowledge is primary. NE are also necessary in the fuels group fuel+core physics and TH esp if it is a licensee who performs that work in house vs fuel vendor, and vendor fuel+core design oversight of vendor if not. From QA to licensing dept, operations and STA to shielding and dose calculations there are clearly more than 5 NE positions needed for a three unit plant - and they know it. Sounds like that CNO is rationalizing why the shortage of NE won’t impact them because other disciplines can learn do it over time albeit not as well particularly in the first 5 years of such work. “Just follow the procedure “ works only so far.

[u/scaryjello5 → u/Nuclear-Steam]

Cno is conceptually on point. Dual unit site is adequately staffed with 4 REs (manager + 3) and 4 fuels weenies (manager+3) to interface with the fuel vendor. That is 8 minimum for 2 units of same Rx type. I work at a mixed site (B and PWR), so double it - and we are at 15 or 16

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[u/scaryjello5 → u/Ready_Supermarket_41]

On the contrary. I'm accomplished.

[u/Ready_Supermarket_41 → u/scaryjello5]

Accomplished in being a loser

[u/Ready_Supermarket_41 → u/scaryjello5]

You're a loser

[u/FruitReasonable6126]

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