Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
98 University of North Texas (141986)
Principal Investigator: Choi,Tae-Youl
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 400,000
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 3/31/23 - 3/30/27
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Mechanical Engineering
Department, Center, School, or Institute: College of Engineering
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Nuclear Safety Testing and Analysis Research (NSTAR) Fellowship Program at The University of North Texas
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
CFDA: 77.007
Program Title: none
Note:
Justification SAM 1.3.2: The funds are requested to support two graduate fellows for their MS and PhD degrees. They will be writing and defending their thesis and dissertation based on their research outcomes. The proposed NSTAR fellowship program at UNT aims to reinforce the workforce in the nuclear energy safety community by engaging the selected fellowship students (fellows) with interdisciplinary education and research. The overarching theme and research focus of the proposed NSTAR program is acoustics-based non-destructive testing and analysis and nanoparticle processing for thermal management applications. An interdisciplinary research team will investigate these research areas with backgrounds in mechanical engineering, material science, and/or physics. The North Texas Institutes that will recruit fellows include UNT, Texas Woman’s University (TWU), and Austin College (AC). Qualified fellows will be from underrepresented groups of students (i.e., Women, Hispanics, and African Americans). The program will fully support two fellows over four years. The NSTAR program will provide full tuition, stipends, travel funds, and other financial aid expenses for books, health insurance, and engineering fees. Upon completion of the NSTAR program, fellows will be given the following benefits: (1) experience in novel research in nuclear engineering and science, (2) exposure to hands-on lab training, (3) networking opportunities with nationally recognized researchers, (4) full financial aids with competitive stipends and benefits until graduation with M.S. or Ph.D. degrees, and (5) successful employment in STEM-related industries, academia, or national labs after graduation.
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