Programme content
The primary objective of the BNEN programme is to educate young engineers in nuclear engineering and its applications and to develop and maintain high-level nuclear competences in Belgium and abroad. BNEN catalyses networking between academia, research centres, industry and other nuclear skateholders.
Courses are organised in Englhi and in a modular way: teaching in blocks of one to three weeks for each module allows optimal time management for students and lecturers, facilitates participation for individual modules, and allows easy access for international students.
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
As the BNEN is a Master after Master programme it relies on knowledge, skills and competences in the domains of mathematics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, general physics, chemistry, materials science and electromagnetism that were acquired in the initial engineering master. It is clear that these tools from previously acquired knowledge and competences are intensively used in the lectures, exercises and laboratory sessions as well as for the master thesis of the BNEN programme.
The BNEN programme educates engineers to identify problems related to nuclear power engineering, to understand and model the physics involved, to find innovative solutions and to evaluate them numerically. By educating the students into the fundamental scientific approach of nuclear engineering they are prepared for undertaking doctoral studies or personal research in the related scientific fields and this with the aim to maintain an academic pole of competence in Belgium.
In order to achieve these goals the students are offered an academically oriented programme, not overspecialising in reactor operation but stressing the scientific-technical basis of the chosen options for present and future practical exploitation of nuclear energy and other nuclear applications.