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The objective of the Complementary Master’s course in Nuclear Engineering is to enable students to acquire the high level skills needed to design and run electro-nuclear power stations, taking into account the legal prescriptions and regulations relating to the safety of these plants. In a wider perspective, to enable students to acquire a university-level specialisation in nuclear science and technology which is recognised at the European level

This program comprises a core curricululum of 56 credits and 4 complementary credits to be chosen from the advanced seminars, the organisation of which varies from year to year in function of the high level scientific skills present at the Research Centre in Mol. By way of example, the following seminars were organised in recent years:

- Advanced seminar on accelerators and time of flight experiments
- Radioisotopes
- Safeguards

- Nuclear energy, future prospects

- Electricity, energy vector of the future

- Recycling of previously radioactive material
- Emergency Planning
- Experience with full scale MCNP modeling of research reactors
- Minimising waste production in a complex nuclear center : from conception to the decommissioning, the SCK.CEN reference case.

This program is set out in detail on the website of SCK.CEN à Mol at the address : http://www.sckcen.be/bnen/

Core curriculum of the Complementary Master in Nuclear Engineering

Electives of the Complementary Master in Nuclear Engineering

Tronc commun du master complémentaire en génie nucléaire

Cours au choix du master complémentaire en génie nucléaire

The program is organised conjointly by six universities: UCL, ULg, ULB, KULeuven, UGent, VUB. The courses are given in rooms made available to the universities by the Study Centre for Nuclear Energy at Mol (SCK.CEN). The practical work relies on the substantial infrastructure and laboratories of the Centre. The researchers of the Centre also assist with the practical work.

See the general admission requirements

Specific procedures :

Specific conditions

This program is open to students :

1) On the basis of their degree : holders of the following degrees :

“Ingénieur civil” of the French-speaking community
“Burgerlijk ingenieur” of the Dutch-speaking community
“Ingénieur civil polytechnique” of l’Ecole Royale Militaire, Brussels

“Burgerlijk ingenieur polytechnicus” of the “Koninklijke Militaire School”, Bruxelles

2) On the basis of a decision taken by the teaching committee (of this program) in function of an evaluation of the previous studies and experience of the candidates : candidates with another second cycle university degree or a degree from another institute of higher education of the French-speaking or Dutch-speaking communities (viz. Bio-ingénieur, Bio-ingenieur, Ingénieur civil architecte, Burgerlijk Ingenieur Architect, Licencié en Sciences, Licenciaat in Wetenschappen, Ingénieur Industriel, Industriëel Ingenieur,…)

3) Candidates with a foreign higher education degree may be admitted within the limits stipulated in the Decrees (Decree of the French-speaking Community of 31 March 2004 on the definition of higher education and its integration in the European system of higher education and the refinancing of universities ; corresponding Decrees of the Dutch-speaking Community), following evaluation and approval by the Teaching Committee and respecting the regulations and procedures of the universities participating in the program.

4) Holders of the new degrees (Master ingénieur civil and Master in ingenieurswetenschappen) awarded according to the above-mentioned decrees will have the same rights as soon as these degrees have been awarded by Belgian universities.

Students may enrol in the participating university of their choice. Students’ candidacies will first be submitted to the Teaching Committee of the BNEN which will then make a recommendation in function of the criteria set out above.

Adults taking up their university training

A significant number of the students (about half) are young engineers professionally involved in the Belgian nuclear sector. The complementary degree will give them access to positions of responsibility.

The advanced electives are in part intended as continuing training and are open to foreign participants.

To make it easier for adults to take these courses, they are given as modules. Each course runs from several days to two or three weeks according to its size (number of credits). The timetable is meticulously arranged in advance to enable students engaged in professional life to manage their time between courses and work in consultation with their employer. In addition, these students may spread their program over two years.

Access to the resources (researchers and laboratories with their major infrastructure) of the Centre d’Etudes Nucléaires (SCK•CEN) is indispensable to ensure the pedagogical quality of this program. The interuniversity partnership guarantees the availability of the diversity of expertises necessary, as well as the quality of the teaching staff.

The modular system of each course concentrated over a limited period from several days to three weeks facilitates the participation of students engaged in professional life as well as foreign students.

The learning activities are evaluated according to the rules in force at the University (see examination regulations), viz. written and oral examinations, laboratory examinations, individual and group work, public presentations of projects, and thesis defence.

The courses and practical work are given in English.

Since the foundation of the BNEN consortium (Belgian Nuclear higher Education Network), which has been in charge of the organisation of this program, the international dimension has been provided by student exchanges, as well as by the offer of three courses especially adapted to exchanges within the European Interuniversity Association ENEN (European Nuclear Education Network - http://www.enen-assoc.org/). Students have the possibility of following part of their course in another university of this association. If they have acquired 20 credits in this context, the ENEN association will award the certificate "European Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering". Some of these mobility exchanges can be financed within the Erasmus program.

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	Mandatory		Optional
	Courses not taught this academic year		Periodic courses not taught this academic year
	Periodic courses taught this academic year		Two year courses

Click on the course code to see detailed informations (objectives, methods, evaluation...)

Year

1

Le cours MECA 2648 est repris dans le programme interuniversitaire sous le sigle BNEN 2001. Le cours MECA 2647 constitue un partim de 3 crédits du cours BNEN 2000

LBNEN2000

Nuclear reactor theory and experiments

N.

8credits

x

LBNEN2001

Nuclear thermal-hydraulics

N.

6credits

x

LBNEN2002

Radiation protection and nuclear measurements

N.

6credits

x

LBNEN2003

Reliability and safety

N.

3credits

x

LBNEN2004

Operation and control

N.

3credits

x

LBNEN2008

Nuclear materials I

N.

3credits

x

LBNEN2009

Nuclear materials II

N.

3credits

x

LBNEN2010

Nuclear fuel cycle and applied radiochemistry

N.

3credits

x

LBNEN2990

Travail de fin d'études

N.

15credits

x

LBNEN2006

Nuclear energy: introduction

N.

3credits

x

LBNEN2007

Introduction to nuclear physics

N.

3credits

x

Legend

	Mandatory		Optional
	Courses not taught this academic year		Periodic courses not taught this academic year
	Periodic courses taught this academic year		Two year courses

Click on the course code to see detailed informations (objectives, methods, evaluation...)

Year

1

2

Un certain nombre de séminaires avancés, variant chaque année et valant de 1 à 4 crédits, sont organisés par le CEN de Mol : http://www.sckcen.be .L'étudiant les met à son programme à concurence de 4 crédits minimum. Ils sont repris globalement sous le sigle BNEN2012 . La coordination de ces activités est assurée par l'ULB

LBNEN2012

Advanced topics

N.

4credits

x

General presentation of the programme