A Double Pipeline of US Domestic Undergraduates for the University of Cincinnati Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Graduate Program

摘要

Attracting a greater number of US domestic students into graduate programs and enhancing the ethnic diversity of the graduate student pool are goals shared by virtually all engineering graduate programs. For a nuclear engineering program, in particular, achieving or striving toward these goals can go beyond simply improving the visibility of a particular program. In fact, it can reshape and improve the attractiveness of the program to future graduate student recruits, it certainly improves the relationship with potential employers, and can ultimately materialize into increased federal funding from such sources as the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), organizations who share and support the above-noted goals. Accordingly, the University of Cincinnati's (UC) Department of Mechanical, Nuclear, and Industrial Engineering (MINE), specifically the Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Program, currently operates two successful programs that have been designed to explicitly "pipeline" talented US domestic undergraduates from various fields of science and engineering and from diverse ethnic backgrounds into its graduate program.