President of UB’s Nuclear Energy in Clean Energy (NiCE) Maximus Wunderlich said that talks of the addition of a nuclear engineering minor have been put on the table.
Thomas O’Connor, the club’s advisor, said that the curriculum would roughly have a total of 12 courses, with 6 courses overlapping with the engineering curriculum and the rest being new nuclear courses.
Wunderlich said that UB NiCE will continue meeting with heads in physics and chemical and biological engineering departments, along with the UB administration to further outline the curriculum, but it’s “only a matter of time.”
Making the curriculum official requires one single caveat: six faculty members are needed to teach the courses.
Kemper Lewis says that responses showed interest, but also showed a lack of experience in the subject.
So far, Maura Sepesy, a chemical professor in chemical engineering and biological engineering, has agreed to teach a nuclear Engineering related course for the minor.
“Every couple of years we will spit out a new minor to keep up with what's going on,” Lewis said.
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