Prestigious nuclear energy scholarship awarded to five VCU College of Engineering students by the U.S. Department of Energy
Five Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) College of Engineering students have been selected for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) University Nuclear Leadership Program (UNLP), a nationally competitive scholarship that supports the next generation of nuclear science and engineering professionals.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers honors mechanical engineering professors for Career Research Awards
Assistant Professor Lane B. Carasik, and Associate Professor Carlos E. Castano, Ph.D., from the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, were recently honored as Rising Stars in mechanical engineering by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition meeting in Portland, Oregon in November.
Researcher to build fuel database to improve nuclear reactor sustainability
Braden Goddard, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) to create a database for use in nuclear material control of pebble bed reactors (PBR).
