Instructor: Raluca Scarlat.
5 credits: 5 hours of in-class time, 10 hours of independent work per week
MW 11.30am – 2pm, EH 2331
Course objectives
- Apply nuclear engineering technical skills in the context of design.
- Learn design thinking methodology as applied to engineering design.
- Learn about quality assurance and documentation.
- Develop peer review as second nature.
- Learn about testing, and design of experiments.
- Learn how to build a team.
- Practice managing uncertainty in decision-making. “How do you take risks?”
- Practice leadership and project management.
Graded Assignments
- Assignment #1: News – personal
- Assignment #2: Project Proposal – personal – graded 10%
- Meeting memos – team/personal
- Prototypes #1, #2, #3 – team
- Peer reviews #1, #2, #3 – team – graded 30%
- Mid-semester reflection – personal
- Final Report & Final Presentation team – graded 60%
- End of semester reflection – personal
A > 90%, B > 80%, C > 70%, D > 60%, F > 50%
You must pass all pass/no pass assignments in order to get passing grade in the class.
Class format
Class time will be used for guest lectures, in-class exercises, team meetings, and discussions about ethics in nuclear engineering lead by NE 231 students. You attendance is expected.
Slack
Use slack to reach me, your colleagues in the class, and the seniors students. You can ask questions, answer questions, share interesting resources, and send direct messages to me or anyone in the class.
Edublogs
Each team has to create a blog to which you will post all of your assignments for this course. The purpose of submitting your assignments online is to share what you learn with everybody else in rest of the world that’s interested in learning about nuclear engineering.
You are welcome to post to this blog any other interesting material or resources that you wish, in order to make it a more comprehensive and useful website. It is something you can showcase and share with your friends, potential employees, colleagues. You can continue to develop it after the end of the semester.
Academic integrity
The honor system applies for all work and activities related to this class, and academic integrity is expected. Please refer to The Academic Integrity Statement of UW-Madison Division of Student Life.
Diversity and Inclusion
Please do your part in creating a productive learning environment for yourself and for everyone in the class. Pay attention, take initiative, speak up, don’t be afraid to make mistakes.
Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.
The University of Wisconsin Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background – people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.