A trip to France immerses students in unique, hands-on learning experience in nuclear fuel reprocessing
Embarking on the week-long visit to France, students visited the La Hague plant, the world's largest commercial scale nuclear reprocessing site, and the Melox plant, a uranium-plutonium mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication plant.
VCU College of Engineering to offer six new minor programs
The College of Engineering launches new minors in artificial intelligence, aerospace engineering, nuclear engineering, software engineering, cybersecurity and data science.
Mechanical and nuclear engineering professor receives $5 million Department of Energy grant
DOE’s RENEW initiative supports 40 minority-serving institutions to build a diverse STEM workforce.
U.S. Department of Energy awards VCU College of Engineering $1.5 million toward a research, education and training Center of Excellence
Engineering foundation professor and director of nuclear engineering programs, Supathorn Phongikaroon, Ph.D., will bring together nuclear engineering faculty at VCU, VCU’s School of Business, VUU and VSU faculty members in Department of Energy-funded research project.
VCU Nuclear Engineering program wins four awards at the American Nuclear Society conference
Twenty-seven students attended to present their work with four winning awards, three for best presentations and one for best paper.
Doctoral student receives 2021 Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Award
Dimitris Killinger (B.S.’15), a doctoral student in VCU’s Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, has received the 2021 Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Award.
Faculty members receive promotions and tenure
Please join us in congratulating 15 faculty members who have received academic promotions and/or tenure. These appointments will take effect July 1, 2021.
VCU Engineering undergraduate and graduate students receive American Nuclear Society national scholarships
Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering students Sierra Tutwiler and Dimitris Killinger have received national scholarships from the American Nuclear Society (ANS) for 2020-21.
Nuclear engineering Ph.D. student wins Roy G. Post Foundation Scholarship
Dimitris Killinger (B.S.’15) , a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, has received a Roy G. Post Foundation Scholarship for 2020. He is one of eight graduate-level recipients selected internationally for this award, which recognizes students with outstanding research achievements in safe management of nuclear materials.
Supathorn Phongikaroon, Ph.D., to direct VCU’s nuclear engineering education program
The VCU College of Engineering has named Supathorn Phongikaroon, Ph.D., director of nuclear engineering. A nationally recognized expert on nuclear waste minimization, Phongikaroon is an associate professor in the College of Engineering’s Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering.
