Master degree program
Nuclear Engineering

Nuclear Engineering

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Engineering Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

LO-1. Calculate the parameters (including polarization and nonlinear) of charged particle beams in elements of cyclic and linear accelerators, necessary for the development and construction of accelerators.
LO-2. Use analytical and numerical methods for calculating and optimizing leading fields in linear and nonlinear magnetic structures of modern accelerator installations.
LO-3. Independently set and solve specific problems of diagnosing beams of charged particles; using modern mathematical methods and software and hardware systems, process data to solve the problem of finding the parameters of the examined beam of charged particles.
LO-4. Independently formulate the requirements and design the magnetic structures of modern sources of synchrotron radiation, make estimates of the necessary spectral photon fluxes for the implementation of basic techniques using synchrotron and undulator radiation; independently design the main components of free electron lasers.
LO-5. Use analytical and numerical methods for calculating the parameters of synchrotron and undulator radiation and free electron laser radiation; conduct an effective analysis of scientific and technical information in the field of creation and use of free electron lasers and synchrotron and undulator radiation installations.
LO-6. Carry out calculations related to the diffusion and moderation of neutrons, calculations related to determining the critical dimensions of reactors necessary for the development and construction of homogeneous and heterogeneous thermal neutrons reactors.
LO-7. Carry out calculations related to cross sections in the field of fast and intermediate neutrons and calculations related to the general design of fast neutron reactors, necessary for its development and construction.
LO-8. Use analytical and numerical methods for calculating and optimizing the leading physical characteristics and parameters of magnetic and inertial thermonuclear reactors.
LO-9. Independently set and solve specific problems related to stationary and non-stationary processes in nuclear and thermonuclear reactors using modern equipment and computer technologies.
LO-10. Using modern software and hardware systems, solve various problems related to nuclear electronics.
LO-11. Independently plan and organize the educational process in organizations of higher and postgraduate education, use the principles of student-centered learning and assessment, use methods and technologies of practice-oriented learning.
LO-12. Timely identify current trends in the field of nuclear engineering. Based on them, independently develop educational and methodological materials in the taught disciplines, taking into account the integration of education, science and innovation, maintain academic standards and promote the development of students, as well as conduct scientific research with them in the field of nuclear engineering.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Nuclear Engineering
Speciality Code
7M07136
Faculty
of Physics and Technology

disciplines

Beam diagnostics in accelerator technology
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - This aims to familiarize master's students with methods for determining various parameters of charged particle beams used in modern accelerator complexes and colliders. At the beginning of the course general information about diagnostic tasks is given, then methods and devices based on them that are suitable for specific tasks are discussed. The presentation of the material is divided according to the physical principles of operation of sensors - contact, optical, electromagnetic.

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of the course is acquisition and improvement of competencies in accordance with the international standards of foreign language education, which allows to use a foreign language as a means of communication in the intercultural, professional and scientific activities of the future specialist. Practical knowledge of a foreign language also implies the ability to work with authentic literature on the specialty, writing a message, reports, mastering technologies of public speaking in line with professional interest.

History and philosophy of science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to be considered on the basis of historical dynamics and in a historically changing socio - cultural context. Introduces the problems of the phenomenon of Science, which is a subject of special philosophical analysis, forms knowledge about the history and theory of Science, the laws of the development of Science and the structure of scientific knowledge, the features of science as a specialty and social institution, the role of Science in the development of society.

Monte Carlo Methods and Simulations in Nuclear Technology
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to familiarize undergraduates with methods for solving nuclear engineering problems in numerical form. The discipline contains consideration of a number of basic issues of computational methods used in nuclear engineering. The course covers the basic concepts of machine arithmetic, numerical solutions of equations with one unknown, quadrature formulas, interpolation formulas and numerical formulas for the integration of ordinary differential equations.

Nuclear Electronics
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purposes of the discipline are to provide students with the basics of the design and use of electronics in modern experiments in nuclear and elementary particle physics, in accelerator technology and the technics of nuclear and thermonuclear reactors. The course of “Nuclear Electronics” consistently presents electronic methods, principles of constructing instruments and automated systems used in the physics of nuclei and elementary particles, in accelerator technology and the technology of nuclear and thermonuclear reactors. Particular attention is paid to the use of microelectronics, computers, microprocessors and software-controlled modular systems.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research (in English)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose – to form the ability to plan, prepare, organize and conduct independent research. Within the framework of the discipline, the following are studied: the international system of scientific publications; copyright in the system of international scientific publications; methodology and methods of scientific research; organization of the text of the original article for the journal; laws of development of science; rules for registration and protection of research results; review procedure; commercialization of scientific developments and its legal support; implementation of scientific research and its effectiveness.

Pedagogy of higher education
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is the formation of the ability of pedagogical activity through the knowledge of higher education didactics, theories of upbringing and education management, analysis, and self-assessment of teaching activities. The course covers the educational activity design of specialists, Bologna process implementation, acquiring a lecturer, and curatorial skills by TLA-strategies.

Psychology of Management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of the course is to develop systemic knowledge of the fundamental concepts of management psychology, the creation of prerequisites for theoretical understanding and practical application of the most important aspects of the field of management in the process of professional development. The basic principles of management psychology, the personality in managerial interactions, the management of personal behavior, modern ideas about management by values, and the psychology of managing group phenomena are considered.

Sources of charged particle beams and magnetic systems of accelerators
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline aims to provide information on methods for obtaining and forming beams of charged particles of various types, on the principles of operation and design of accelerator magnetic elements and systems, as well as the technologies used in their creation. The course describes: processes of emission and formation of a beam of charged particles; evolution of the energy distribution function of charged particles during beam acceleration; its rapid and adiabatic acceleration; methods for determining the temperature of charged particles and processes of temperature relaxation in a beam after acceleration.

Statistical Methods in Nuclear Engineering
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline is intended to teach students the basics of probability theory, mathematical statistics and Monte Carlo methods. The main goal of mastering the discipline is to become familiar with the methods of modeling and statistical data processing adopted in leading centers of nuclear physics and particle physics. The course is based on modern achievements and needs of experimental and engineering nuclear physics, particle physics and nuclear and thermonuclear reactor technology.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Cyclic accelerators
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - This discipline aims to provide information about the operating principles and design of the main components of modern cyclic accelerators, as well as the main physical phenomena affecting the parameters of charged particle beams. The course describes the types of cyclic accelerators, issues of excitation of accelerating structures, the accelerating structures themselves and methods for their research. Issues of longitudinal and transverse dynamics of particles in cyclic accelerators and focusing issues are presented. The dynamics of a single relativistic bunch, excitation potentials and impedances are considered.

Free electron lasers
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline aims to provide information about the principles of operation and design of free electron lasers, as well as the technologies used in their creation. This discipline is intended to train specialists who will, in their subsequent work, use knowledge about the structure and operating principle of new technologically complex components of modern sources of electromagnetic radiation operating on the basis of relativistic electron beams.

Kinetics and heat - mass transfer in nuclear reactors
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline of “Kinetics and heat and mass transfer in nuclear reactors” aims to: 1. familiarize students with the physical foundations of non-stationary processes occurring in a nuclear reactor in the absence of a control system and temperature feedback on reactivity; 2. provide information on a wide range of heat and mass transfer issues that are most often encountered in nuclear power problems.

Linear accelerators
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - This discipline aims to provide information about the operating principles and design of the main components of modern linear accelerators, as well as the main physical phenomena affecting the parameters of charged particle beams. The course describes the types of linear accelerators, issues of excitation of accelerating structures, the accelerating structures themselves and methods for their research. Issues of longitudinal and transverse dynamics of particles in linear accelerators and focusing issues are presented. The dynamics of a single relativistic bunch, excitation potentials and impedances are considered.

Magnetic and inertial controlled thermonuclear fusion
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to familiarize undergraduates with the operating principles of magnetic controlled thermonuclear fusion installations, the design of their main components, as well as the basic physical processes occurring in them. This discipline outlines the theory of the physical processes underlying controlled thermonuclear fusion with magnetic confinement. Particular attention is paid to the main reactions of the thermonuclear cycle in nature and in thermonuclear devices.

Nonlinear Beam Dynamics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline “Nonlinear beam dynamics” aims to provide high-level up-to-date information about the creation technologies, physical characteristics and operating principles of the components of modern accelerator-storage complexes. In the course the equations of motion of a relativistic charged particle in the nonlinear fields of a cyclic accelerator are derived and studied. Various perturbation theory methods are used as a research tool (from power series expansion of the solution to canonical Lie theory). Such aspects of nonlinear dynamics as the dependence of the oscillation frequency on the amplitude, resonance phenomena, limitation of the region of stability of particle motion, etc. are studied in detail.

Nuclear reactions in Nuclear and Thermonuclear reactors
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to familiarize undergraduates with chain nuclear reactions of fission of heavy nuclei occurring in nuclear reactors and with thermonuclear reactions with light nuclei occurring in thermonuclear installations. The course examines successively different approaches to describing the mechanisms of nuclear reactions: resonance theory of nuclear reactions, models of direct nuclear reactions, statistical approach, theory of nuclear fission. The course concludes with a presentation of the microscopic approach to the theory of nuclear reactions.

Physical processes in plasma and plasma installations
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to familiarize undergraduates with the basics of plasma physics, the technology of plasma installations and methods for calculating the physical processes occurring in them. The course outlines the fundamentals of plasma physics and processes occurring in devices and installations intended for the creation and practical use of plasma, as well as information about emission phenomena used in plasma generation, information about the elements of ion and electron optics, about the physics of the main types of gas discharges.

Physics of fast neutron reactors
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to familiarize master's students with the fundamentals of the theory of fast neutrons nuclear reactors and with methods for calculating the physical processes occurring in them. This course outlines the physical foundations of power and research fast neutrons reactors. The methods of neutronics and thermal-hydraulic calculations and calculations related to the reactivity and efficiency of the controls of such a reactor are considered. The physical characteristics of reactors with mixed oxide fuel are described. Structural and circuit solutions for reactors with sodium coolant as well as problems of safety and economic feasibility of fast neutron reactors are considered.

Physics of thermal neutron reactors
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to familiarize master's students with the fundamentals of the theory of thermal neutrons nuclear reactors and with methods for calculating the physical processes occurring in them. The course outlines the physical foundations of power and research thermal neutrons reactors. Methods of neutronics calculations and calculations related to the critical dimensions of reactors and the efficiency of their control bodies are considered.

Polarized beams
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to provide master's students with basic knowledge, skills and abilities in the basic physics of polarized particle beams. Currently, most experiments in high-energy and nuclear physics are carried out at accelerators, where the primary particles have spin. Recent decades have demonstrated a growing interest among physicists in conducting experiments with polarized particles. For these purposes, intense sources of beams of polarized particles were developed, spin dynamics in accelerators were understood, and methods for controlling the direction and degree of polarization were developed.

Synchrotron radiation
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline aims to familiarize students with the properties of synchrotron radiation, the effects of synchrotron radiation on the parameters of electron beams in accelerators and with methods of using synchrotron radiation in fundamental and applied research. This discipline is intended to train specialists who will, in their subsequent work, use knowledge about the structure and operating principle of new technologically complex components of modern sources of electromagnetic radiation operating on the basis of relativistic electron beams.

Data for 2021-2024 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Formation of practical, educational-methodical skills of conducting lectures, seminars, creatively apply scientific, theoretical knowledge, practical skills in teaching activities, conduct training sessions in the disciplines of the specialty; own modern professional techniques, methods of training, use in practice the latest theoretical, methodological advances, make educational, methodological documentation.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice: gaining experience in the study of an actual scientific problem, expand the professional knowledge gained in the learning process, and developing practical skills for conducting independent scientific work. The practice is aimed at developing the skills of research, analysis and application of economic knowledge.

Data for 2021-2024 years