Each year nuclear engineering senior design projects are invited to present at the American Nuclear Society (ANS) Winter Meeting.

At the 2023 meeting, Maddison Barber (now at GE-Hitachi), May Wells (now at Duke Energy) and Alex Chaisson (Navy) were finalists in the senior design competition. The paper was entitled “Event Sequence Analysis to Support a Full Scope Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment Framework for the PULSTAR Research Reactor”. Their faculty adviser was Dr. Mihai Diaconeasa.

This team was one of ten senior design projects from the 2022-23 academic year.