i am planning to go in nuclear engineering, but not many universities offer nuclear program. so can i do BS in mechanical engineering and then PhD in nuclear.
I have a BS in NucE…. I think ME and NucE go together incredibly well. You should not go to the same university for grad school and undergrad – that is considered intellectual incest. Instead, choose your ME school. Once you are there, pick your grad school.
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January 23rd, 2012 at 12:38 am
I have a BS in NucE…. I think ME and NucE go together incredibly well. You should not go to the same university for grad school and undergrad – that is considered intellectual incest. Instead, choose your ME school. Once you are there, pick your grad school.
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January 23rd, 2012 at 12:56 am
Yes, it’s quite doable. Having transferred from one engineering discipline to another for grad school and having had no major issues. . . yes, I’d definitely say you can do that if that’s what you need to do. Are you sure you don’t want to go to any of the schools that still do offer NE programs, though, if that’s what you really want? They do still exist — my undergrad school still has one, for instance, as far as I know.
Oh, and you can stay at one school for 2-3 degrees if you want to. I’ve had lots of friends do a BS, MS, and a Ph.D. all at the same school. Nobody looks at that weird at all. . . I would have, too, except for I had a more interesting Ph.D. project pop up from another school as I was finishing up my MS.
I think what you describe is exactly what one of the professors I dealt with for a while in my undergrad school’s nuke program did, quite honestly. There’s a lot of heat transfer and such involved with reactors, and that fits in nicely with some of the big things in ME.
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