Key benefits

The Nuclear Engineering IDC represents a new working culture for PhD study, fostering relationships between teams in universities and forging lasting links with industry.

Students will receive a formal programme of taught courses and design coursework to develop and enhance their technical interdisciplinary knowledge, and broaden their set of skills. Alongside this they will undertake a challenging and original research project at PhD level, with each project completed in collaboration with the nuclear engineering industry.

The Nuclear Engineering IDC will:

• Produce internationally competitive doctoral graduates who can engage with today's diverse nuclear engineering issues and contribute to the development of a high level knowledge-based UK nuclear sector.
• Combine teaching and research expertise to deliver significant added value to the traditional PhD programme, with a leading focus on developing the skills and knowledge base required by industry.
• Provide a structured, dynamic research environment where students gain a broad knowledge base of the subject and a greater strength in core skills.
• Train students in research skills, advanced techniques, and adaptive and flexible problem solving in the context of a major industrially relevant research project.
• Challenge students and promote independent problem-solving and interdisciplinarity, as well as exposing students to industrial innovation, exciting new science and the international research community.
• Expose students to a greater depth of transferable skills training, to better prepare them for leadership, management and team working roles in industry.