Graduate Studies in Health Physics

["Tim Schley" <Tim.Schley@tdh.state.tx.us>]

The Nuclear Radiation Engineering Program at the University of Texas 
(UT) at Austin , is offering a Masters in Mechanical Engineering, 
with an emphasis in Health Physics, beginning in the Fall of 1998.

This graduate program will be offered by remote distance teaching 
from campuses at Austin and San Antonio.  The courses are developed  
for the working professional, full-time student, or persons 
interested in continuing education.  Only one course per term will be 
given, to include the summer session.  The first course to be given 
in Fall 1998 is Health Physics.   A list of courses follows:   

Health Physics 
Health Physics Instrumentation (2 weeks at UT Austin)  
Radioactive Waste management Interaction of Radiation with Matter
Introduction to Radiation Shielding
Introduction to Computational Methods
Radiation Biology (UT San Antonio)
Physics of Nuclear Medicine (UT San Antonio)

The courses will be given in the evenings or late afternoon.  
Students who live in the Austin area can attend class at UT as it is 
being transmitted to other sites.  It is intended to link up all the 
sites together.  The University of Texas Health Science Center at San 
Antonio will also give two courses.   A written research thesis 
can be obtained in any related professional work.  Other research 
opportunities in health physics or radioactive waste for theses may 
also be pursued.

The University of Texas has excellent experimental facilities in the 
Nuclear Engineering Teaching Lab, which houses the TRIGA nuclear 
research reactor.  A staff health physicist and a wide variety health 
physics instrumentation are available for routine and research work.  
Good research opportunities also exist with the Amarillo National 
Resource Center for Plutonium and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

For more information, please contact Dr. Sheldon Landsberger, 
Professor and Coordinator, Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program 
at (512) 232-2467, or by e-mail to <s.landsberger@mail.texas.edu>.
Additional information may also be obtained from these wedsites:
  <http://www.me.utexas.edu/%7Enuclear>
  <http://www.me.utexas.edu/~nuclear/>

Tim Schley