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Highest historical GPA first. At least 100 letter grades over the five years through the selected term. Grades reflect past outcomes, not workload or a guaranteed result.
Historical grades cover up to five years through the selected term. Only courses with at least 100 letter grades are ranked.
Nuclear Materials Laboratory covers practical applications of materials issues for nuclear systems, including welding, microscopy, and understanding radiation damage and corrosion.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026A laboratory course covering experiments in nuclear instrumentation, counting, and data analysis.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Introduction to plasmas covering collective phenomena, waves, instabilities, and kinetic theory with applications to fusion and materials processing.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Oliver Schmitz: The course was rated as difficult, with a difficulty rating of 4, reflecting the challenges of the material and the online format during the pandemic.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Nuclear Engineering Materials covers the fundamentals of fuel and cladding behavior, focusing on thermal, chemical, and radiation damage properties.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Adrien Couet: The course involves a non-trivial amount of work; students must be prepared to treat it as a four-credit course and put in effort outside of class to learn the material.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025Covers fundamentals of nuclear engineering including nuclear structure, radioactivity, reactions, fission, and neutron moderation.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews indicate homework involves a lot of math, while exams are conceptual with usually one big math problem.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025