Annual Report

Teaching
At Imperial College we continue in our mission to deliver the highest
quality teaching across a broad range of nuclear engineering
topics. Delivery of our key courses span both undergraduate
(MEng), post graduate (MSc and MRes) and research level degrees
(PhD). Our graduates continue to achieve excellence and many of
our alumni are now employed in planning for the next generation
of reactors, both fission and fusion, managing the existing fleet,
and in decommissioning and waste management. Our graduates
are employed not only in the UK, but also across the world, providing
a global impact in securing a low CO2 future. Our programmes
all build upon our long standing interests in nuclear and at Imperial
we have been nuclear engineering continuously at ICL since
the 1950s.
We have three undergraduate MEng degrees
in Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering,
Chemical & Nuclear Engineering,
Materials & Nuclear Engineering. Annually
30-35 students graduate from these
courses, most of whom join the nuclear
industry (e.g. EdF Energy, Rolls-Royce,
AWE) or pursue PhDs.
We have our flagship one-year MSc in Nuclear
Engineering which graduated a cohort of 30
students last year, drawn from the Centre for
Doctoral Training (CDT) and 1 year taught masters
cohorts. This year we have split this into an
MSc in Advanced Nuclear Engineering and the
MRes in Nuclear Energy. The MSc is designed to
transition a budding nuclear engineer into an
expert well targeted for developing a leading
industry career or further PhD study. The MRes
enhances the research aspect of the programme
and is part of our leading CDT programme, led
by Imperial but together with Cambridge and
Open Universities (the ICO team).
The MSc in Advanced Nuclear Engineering consists
of focussed 1 year programme. It is broadly
split into three sections: Core Courses that
cover essential topics for any nuclear engineer,
ranging from nuclear physics towards materials
selection for cladding materials; Short Courses
provide a state-of-the-art taster of important
and exciting emerging and growing areas,
such as Nuclear Fusion (kindly provided by col-
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