Associate Professor Robert Hayes demonstrating the physical components of a commercially available optically stimulated luminescence dosimeter in the departments newly established retrospective dosimetry and nuclear assay laboratories

New Health Physics Minor at North Carolina State University

NC State’s Nuclear Engineering Department now offers a minor in health physics and is open to any campus student. For students enrolled in the department’s 5-year accelerated bachelor-master program (ABM), they can also receive the health physics minor by taking the appropriate courses.

A multidisciplinary minor of engineering, science and statistics courses, it will equip students to work in various facets of nuclear science and engineering. Health physicists are crucial professionals to the nuclear energy and health enterprise and NC State’s Nuclear Engineering program is doing its part to prepare the next generation.

Required courses for the health physics minor include –

  • NE 202 Radiation sources, interaction and detection
  • NE 290 Introduction to health physics
  • NE 404/504 Radiation safety and shielding
  • NE 431/531 Nuclear waste management
  • NE 490/590 Radiological assessment and nuclear emergency response
  • NR 484 Environmental impact assessment
  • MEA 215 Introduction to atmospheric science
  • MEA 412 Atmospheric physics
  • AES 323 Water management
  • ET 105 Introduction to environmental regulations
  • ST 370 Probability and statistics for engineers