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Nuclear Engineering 1st Edition 2011-12
PRESENTATION
Spain, and the European Union, has an energy dependency plants or to build new ones. In a very short period of time
problem that is periodically the source of fierce debate this sector will therefore need professionals who are
about degrees of efficiency of energy conservation and the specialized in this area so that the workforces at these
pros and cons of different power sources. The debate on nuclear centres can be renewed. This course aims to
energy becomes more intense in times of crisis or when train people to be able to quickly move into managerial
political conflicts affect the supply and price of the energy positions in different organizations, whether they are
we consume. Three fourths of the energy consumed companies within the nuclear sector or within the energy
in Spain is imported. Practically all of the oil and gas field. The participants on this Master’s course will learn
consumed comes from foreign countries, as well as an the competences needed to manage projects that are run
important amount of the coal used. Nuclear energy does within a company; material supply logistics, plant safety
have the potential to reduce our dependency on natural and technical management. This course is structured
gas and lower the cost of electricity that is currently priced into different subject areas that are linked transversally
quite highly. 20% of the electricity consumed in Spain is and go from theoretical fundamentals, calculations and
produced by nuclear power generation and in Catalonia it technologies involved, to a general view of the nuclear
is 45%. sector which includes specific analysis of technical
management of a nuclear power plant and the supply
Nuclear power meets the three requirements that any logistics process. In addition, students will do internships
energy policy must satisfy. Security of supply, the raw in companies and thus will be able to work with experts
materials come from politically stable countries, mostly in in the field who can offer them both their knowledge and
the OECD area. It is respectful to the environment by not experience.
emitting CO2 to the atmosphere, thus making it essential
in the strategy to fight climate change caused by global The nuclear industry is highly internationalized, with
warming. It offers a stable kWh cost which is resistant to companies from different countries involved in the same
the volatility of raw material prices. Furthermore, nuclear project. Therefore, this Master ‘s course will be taught
energy has another strategic competitive advantage which entirely in English with a dual aim; so that it can be taken
is the amount of energy accumulated in the small volume by foreign students and so that Spanish students are fully
required by uranium when compared to natural gas, which prepared to participate in projects abroad.
is much more difficult to store and requires large-scale
infrastructures both in the liquefied gas docks and in This pioneering Master’s course in Catalonia is strictly
underground storage. Nuclear energy has always been focused on nuclear power and is the result of various
a controversial subject and the source of intense social synergies and the coming together of many different
debate, often slanted by misinformation about its uses and parties including the School of Industrial Engineering
risks. Memories of the accidents at Three Mile Island, and of Barcelona, the Department of Physics and Nuclear
especially Chernobyl are ever present in discussions on Engineering, the Institute of Energy Technologies at the
nuclear energy. However, the lessons learned from these UPC and, in particular, ENDESA, which has provided their
incidents have resulted both in technological advances experience and full support for the internationalization of
and improved plant management, as undoubtedly will be this Master’s course. If we also add the close collaboration
seen in the recent Fukushima accident. between the Nuclear Safety Council and the UPC in terms
of nuclear safety, we can conclude that this Master’s
Despite all of these incidents, nuclear energy is safe, course provides all of the essentials needed to fulfil the
reliable and necessary. The age of the almost one expectations that exist within the sector and society alike
hundred and fifty nuclear power plants in Europe and and will fully satisfy the expectations of students.
the peremptory need for an energy supply with which we
are faced nowadays only leave us with two economically Lluís Batet
viable options; to extend the life of existing nuclear power Master’s CoordinatorINTRODUCTION AIMS METHODOLOGY
Worldwide demand for electricity is quickly This Master’s course has been designed to The courses will combine theoretical and
growing. According to the International help students: practice-based
Energy Agency (IEA, World Energy Outlook activities (demonstration classes, self-
• Achieve a deep understanding of the
2010) the demand for electricity will guided studies, using calculation codes
theoretical and practical fundamentals of
increase, on average, by 2.2% annually and laboratory practice) with guided
nuclear engineering and the technology
until 2035. In a scenario of energy policies visits to different nuclear installations An
associated with power production via nu-
aimed at increasing energy security and important part of the learning process
clear fission chain reactions.
reducing CO2 emissions, a significant for students will be combined problem
part of the new power generation capacity • Have both a clear and broad vision of the solving
installed worldwide will correspond energy transformation chain of nuclear
via Project Based Learning (PBL) projects,
to renewable energy technologies and fuel into its final useable form, from ura-
working mostly in small cooperative
nuclear power plants. nium mining to the management of used
groups
nuclear fuel.
There are no plans to build new plants in • Learn the lifecycle of the different insta-
Spain in the short term, but they will be llations, from the initial construction to ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
necessary in the mid-term, and it must the decommissioning and dismantling of
University Master’s degrees are open to
be taken into account that it takes several a nuclear facility.
holders of an official Spanish university
years from the start of construction to
• Have a profound understanding of regu- degree or holders of an official university
the commissioning of the plant. France,
lation and nuclear safety. degree awarded by a university that is part of
Finland and Slovakia are building new
the European Higher Education Area which
nuclear plants and in Eastern Europe new • Develop a strategic view of the sector,
allows access to Master’s degree courses in
nuclear programs are underway. In the and the ability to comprehend problems
the country in which it was awarded.
USA, this year the construction of two new and to make decisions.
technology projects AP-1000 will start.
University Master’s degrees are also open to
In China, currently 27 plants are being STUDENT PROFILE holders of a university degree awarded by a
built, in India 6. Finally, in South America,
This Master’s course is aimed at people with university in a country that is not part of the
countries like Brazil or Argentina are
university level studies in technical sciences European Higher Education Area, where this
considering new nuclear programs.
in the following areas: has been officially recognized as equivalent
to a Spanish qualification that provides
Globalization of the economy and the • Engineering: Industrial Technologies, access to University Master’s degrees. If the
growing presence of European companies Materials, Power, Chemistry, Mechanics applicant’s degree has not been officially
in a variety of projects have contributed and Electricity recognized, the University must first verify
considerably to the need for qualified that the course of study corresponds
personnel within the sector. This Master’s • Other engineering and technical engi- to a level of education equivalent to an
programme aims to train qualified staff to neering fields official Spanish university degree and that
fill the growing demand within the sector • Physics, Chemistry the qualification obtained would provide
and society. admission to a Master’s degree in the
country of award. Admission following this
STRUCTURE process under no circumstances implies
The programme focuses not only on
This programme is divided into required sub- the official recognition of the degree or its
training professionals to be highly prepared
ject areas (46.5 ECTS) that will provide stu- acceptance for any other purpose than
to reach positions of responsibility within
dents with the necessary multidisciplinary admission to the Master’s degree course
the nuclear power sector, but also to train
training, elective subject areas (13.5 ECTS)
personnel to be able to do research and
which students can use to complement their
development or to work as teachers in
training in different areas of interest, an obli-
this field.
gatory internship (15 ECTS) at a company in
the sector or in a research and develop-
ment centre and, finally, the completion of a
Master’s Final Project (15 ECTS), preferably
in conjunction with an internship.PROGRAMME
Fundamentals
Fuel Cycle
of Nuclear Nuclear
1st and
Semestre Engineering and Power
Environmental
Radiological Plants
Impact
Protection
Management
Regulations
2nd of Nuclear Elective
Semestre and
Power Block
Safety
Plants
3rd
Semestre Internship and Master’s Final Project
Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Management of Nuclear Power Plants (10.5 ECTS)
Protection (9 ECTS) • Design and Construction
• Nuclear Physics • Operation of Nuclear Plants
• Detection and Measurement of Radiation
• Fundamentals of Radiological Protection Elective Block (13.5 ECTS)
Every year a series of optional courses will be offered and
Nuclear Power Plants (15 ECTS) students should select 3 of them.
• Reactor Physics Among others, the following courses will be offered:
• Thermal-hydraulics • Nuclear fusion
• Systems and components • New designs in fission reactors
• Materials • Instrumentation
• Non-destructive testing methods
Fuel Cycle and Environmental Impact (6 ECTS) • Monte-Carlo methods for radiation transport
calculation
• The nuclear fuel cycle
• The environmental impact of nuclear installations
Internship (15 ECTS)
Master’s Final Project (15 ECTS)
Regulations and Safety (6 ECTS)Coordinator
Lluís Batet
PhD. in Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
Associate Professor and current director of the Nuclear Engineering
Section of the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering.
Lecturers
Lluís Batet Mercè Ginjaume
PhD. in Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. PhD. in Physics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Associate Professor and current director of the Nuclear Engineering Researcher at the Institute of Energy Technologies (INTE) at the
Section of the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering. UPC. Director of the Institute of Energy Technologies (INTE) (2005-
February 2011). Technical Director of the Dosimetry and Calibration
Francisco Calviño Laboratory at the UPC.
PhD. in Physics from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona.
Professor of the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering Carme Pretel
at the UPC. Associate Researcher at the European Organization for PhD. in Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
Nuclear Research. Representative for the UPC at the Centro Nacional Vice Director of the Institute of Energy Technologies (INTE). Professor
de Física de Partículas, Astropartículas y Nuclear (Spanish National of the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering at the UPC.
Particle Physics, Astroparticles and Nuclear Physics Centre).
Francesc Reventós
Guillem Cortes PhD. in Engineering from the Institut National Polytechnique in
PhD. in Physics from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Grenoble, Associate Professor of the Department of Physics and
Associate Professor of the Department of Physics and Nuclear Nuclear Engineering. Research collaborator at the Institute of Energy
Engineering at the UPC. Research collaborator at the Institute of Technologies (INTE) at the UPC.
Energy Technologies (INTE) at the UPC.
Josep Sempau
Alfredo de Blas PhD. in Physics from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
PhD. in Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Researcher at the Institute of Energy Technologies (INTE) at the
Associate Professor of the Nuclear Engineering Section of the UPC.
Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering.
Arturo Vargas
Javier Dies PhD. in Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
PhD. in Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Researcher at the Institute of Energy Technologies (INTE) at the
Chair Professor of the Department of Physics and Nuclear UPC.
Engineering at the UPC. Representative for the UPC at the European
Nuclear Education Network (ESES) that promotes the European
Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering (EMSNE).
Maria A. Duch
PhD in Physics from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
Researcher at the Institute of Energy Technologies (INTE) at the UPC.
Head of the Radiological Protection Service and Technical Director of
the Thermoluminescent Dosimetry Laboratory at the UPC.
This Master’s course includes the presence of prestigious internationally recognized visiting lecturers and expert professionals from
Endesa and the Nuclear Energy sector.Degree
Master’s Degree
ECTS European Credit
Transfer System
Duration
90 ECTS
The ECTS system allows for
measurement of the specific work
Language that must be completed by students
English to be able to obtain the knowledge,
abilities and competencies needed
to pass the different subject areas
Course Dates they are studying.
September 2011 to January 2013
Each ECTS is equivalent to 25 hours
of study and includes the time
Schedule dedicated to in-class sessions,
From Monday to Friday in the evening student work hours, tutoring sessions,
seminars, exercises, internships and
projects, as well as the time needed
Registration fee for preparing and taking exams and
13,500 euros evaluations.
Taught at
Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria
Industrial de Barcelona (ETSEIB-UPC)
The UPC into the EHEA
Av. Diagonal, 647 The UPC goes one step further
08028 Barcelona to offer a high level of quality
and excellence in its educational
programmes by integrating their
More Information course offerings into the European
Higher Education Area (EHEA).
The School of Industrial Engineering of
Barcelona (ETSEIB) Upon completion of the quality
Carles Oriol evaluation and accreditation
Phone: +34 93 401 59 77 process we give our students
master-nuclear.etseib@upc.edu access to programmes that are fully
recognised within the European
Endesa Energy School market: The workload of all
Pablo Fernández-Olano students is measured in ECTS (the
Phone: +34 91 213 10 06 European standard) and, follows the
pablo.fernandezolano@endesa.es provisions in the Bolonia process,
which is defined by the general and
ENDESA-UPC FINANCIAL AID PROGRAMME specific competencies that students
will attain once they have passed
This Master’s course is financially supported by their courses.
Endesa and there is an extensive scholarship
programme available for prospective students.
For more information
http://formaciocontinua.upc.edu/nuclearengineeringTHE UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA ENDESA ENERGY SCHOOL
The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya is a public research Endesa aims to use talent to help the company face its
and higher education centre that specialises in architecture, most important scientific and technological challenges for
sciences and engineering. The different faculties are refe- their business in the future. Our university also shares
rence centres both in Spain and internationally for research their belief that talent is the driving force that will power
and training professionals and researchers. The University is future development of the knowledge economy.
strongly committed to providing high quality technical edu-
cation to adequately respond to the educational needs that Five years ago Endesa founded the Energy School at a time
are required both in traditional and emerging productive sec- when the greatest challenges that would define the future
tors. We have 23 different schools and faculties involved in path of the energy sector were becoming clearer. Global
teaching, research and dissemination of knowledge. competition, declining energy sources, environmental
problems, constantly changing regulations, economic
One of these educational centres is the School of Industrial crises, etc. During this period the university consolidated
Engineering of Barcelona (ETSEIB) which combines both a its position as Endesa’s corporate University by selecting
longstanding tradition with a spirit of renewal and continuous and training professionals in order to face challenges and
improvement in order to become one of the best engineering achieve desired improvements.
schools in Spain and an internationally renowned educatio-
nal centre. The Endesa Energy School believes in aligning education
with needs that are generated by business strategies. We
The School maintains strong ties with the local industrial, are developing innovative educational solutions based
financial and social sectors and can boast significant inter- on advanced technologies using the Learning by Doing
national presence and recognition. methodology. We are also trying to create an effective
learning environment and we have set up agreements with
Research and technology/knowledge transfer done in the the most renowned knowledge centres around the world.
different research departments, centres and groups at the We wish to open knowledge up to collaborators, suppliers
School has helped it become a pioneer in many different and those involved within the company environment.
scientific and technological areas and has helped the ETSEIB
to foster a strong presence and involvement in industry. It is Endesa, together with the Universitat Politècnica de
both specialised and well recognised in architecture, scien- Catalunya (UPC), has launched the Master of Nuclear
ces and engineering. Engineering with the goal of creating an environment that
promotes the exchange of ideas and knowledge, a space
The UPC offers degree programmes that fully integrate the where innovation and technology contribute to advances in
changes required by the European Higher Education Area for the field of nuclear science and, in turn, will contribute to
Master’s and Doctorate degrees. In addition, the University making the world a more sustainable place.
permanently offers Master’s programmes and other courses
that are adapted to professional development needs.http://formaciocontinua.upc.edu/nuclearengineering Supporting by:
Escola Tècnica
Superior d’Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona
ETSEIB-UPC
Campus Diagonal Sud. Edifici PI (Pavelló I).
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