Rad Health at UM

[kearfott@engin.umich.edu]

Although the University of Michigan continues to offer its program in
radiation safety  through the Environmental and Industrial Health
Department (as an Environmental and Industrial Health Engineering degree),
the Department of Nuclear Engineering now also offers a program (a
COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT degree program called Master of Engineering in
Radiological Health Engineering) which is geared specifically to
individuals who have undergraduate degrees in physics and engineering. This
program has 16 full-time on-campus Master's degree students enrolled in it
(and one PHD student who just passed a qualifier examination specialized in
the area), each of whom has at least a partial scholarship for tuition
(this will be the case next year as well). The department, over the last
two years, has also developed four new health physics courses, including a
new course in medical health physics. The courses offered by Professor
Glenn Knoll in the radiation detection area also continue to be offered,
and a new faculty member was hired to build up the NE side of the option
(that's me-- a CHP who is an Associate Editor of Health Physics and on the
Board of Directors of the Health Physics Society). We are, in addition,
also initiating a search for an additional faculty member. The program
includes many of the courses offered throught the Envionrmental and
Industrial Health Department, but does not require a master's thesis
(instead, students take a more intense course load and may complete the
degree in one year). The program was recently approved for participation in
all of the fellowship programs in health physics offered by the Department
of Engineering, NRC, etc. There are currently two DOE fellows and two HPS
fellowship winners in the program.

Additional information may be obtained by contacting me.

Enjoy!

 

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              Kim Kearfott, Sc.D., C.H.P.
          Professor, Dept. Nuclear Engineering
 Program Advisor, Radiological Health Engineering
                University of Michigan
             108 Cooley Lab, North Campus
               Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2104
              telephone: (313) 763-9117
                 fax: (313) 763-4540
        electronic mail: kearfott@engin.umich.edu
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