Congratulations to NC State Nuclear Engineering senior design teams, and undergraduate student researcher. They participated in the 2025 American Nuclear Society (ANS) Student Conference in Albuquerque, NM. The conference theme was “Old and Nu”, honoring New Mexico’s role in the dawn of the nuclear era and the vast role the state has played in the continued expansion of nuclear science and technology.
SC State University (SCSU) nuclear engineering student(s) attend NC State in their senior year and are included on the list below.
SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTS
Analysis of 18- and 24-Month Fuel Strategies in a Generation III Boiling Water Reactor
Student Team: Ethan Wilson, Nolan Lawrence, Eirena Klemes
Faculty adviser: Dr. Jason Hou
Conceptual Innovative Designs of Multi-Layer Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Cask
Student Team: Jason P. Clifford, Aidan Glickman, Katelyn Williams
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Zeinab Y. Alsmadi
Exploring the Benefits of Non-Uniformly Enriched Fuel Assemblies within a Westinghouse Electric Company 4-Loop PWR Core Loading Pattern
Student Team: Justin A. Overman, Tyler Kay, Johnathan W. Pack
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Maria Avramova and Kostadin Ivanov
Development of a Spectral Library for a Microwave Discharge using Zapdos
Student Team: Joshua C. Smith, Liam King, Noah Simon
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Steven Shannon
Optimizing Fuel Loading in a Westinghouse 2-Loop PWR Through Multiple Pin Enrichment
Student Team: Chadwick B. Carpenter, Robert D. Gregory, Eric Brown (SCSU)
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Maria Avramova and Kostadin Ivanov
SUMMIT: Sodium-cooled University Mixed-spectrum Multi-enrichment Integral Test and research reactor
Student Team: Pavel G. Simeonov, Ryan Perry, Owen Wells, Grier Neese
Faculty Adviser: Dr. John Zino
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Automating Spectroscopic Analysis of Lithium Isotopic Composition with Convolutional Neural Networks
Student Team: Jason P. Clifford, Lauren A. Kohler, Julianna M. White, Nusrat Karim
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Elizabeth Kautz and Xu Wu
Explicit Modeling of B4C in Neutron Absorber Plates
Eirena M. Klemes