Nuclear Scholarship Deadline Extended to MARCH 4

Apply today — the full Nuclear Scholarship Deadline has been extended to March 4! Complete the online application at www.threerivers.edu/dominion.

The scholarships cover the full cost of tuition, books, and fees for a two-year associate degree program at Three Rivers Community College, starting with the Fall 2022 semester .  Additionally, students receive a $150 per month stipend during the nine-month academic year and have a twelve-week paid internship experience at the Millstone Nuclear Power Station during the summer between their first and second academic year.  This gives the students the opportunity to see nuclear utility operations first hand and develop significant practical work experience.

Through classroom, laboratory, and simulator instruction, this program educates students in the theories underlying the safe operation of nuclear power generating stations. Those opting to enter the workplace as technicians have found their education and experience in strong demand by Connecticut business and industry. Other scholarship recipients, upon completion of the program, have successfully transferred to nuclear engineering and health physics baccalaureate degree programs in state and nationally.

 

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Full Scholarships Available for TRCC Nuclear Engineering Technology Program

Three Rivers Community College, the College Foundation, and Dominion Energy Nuclear Connecticut/Millstone Power Station are again offering 16 full scholarships for the Three Rivers Community College Nuclear Engineering Technology Degree program. The only program of its kind in New England, it is considered the best in the nation. Through classroom, laboratory, and simulator instruction, this program educates students in the theories underlying the safe operation of nuclear power generating stations. For students interested in beginning the program in the Fall of 2022, the application deadline for the scholarship is February 22, 2022.

The scholarships cover the full cost of tuition, books, and fees for a two-year associate degree program, starting with the Fall 2022 semester. Additionally, students receive a guaranteed $150 per month stipend during the nine-month academic year and have a twelve-week paid internship experience at the Millstone Nuclear Power Station during the summer between their first and second academic year. This gives the students the opportunity to see nuclear utility operations first hand and develop significant practical work experience.

Those opting to enter the workplace as technicians have found their education and experience in strong demand by Connecticut business and industry. Other scholarship recipients, upon completion of the program, have successfully transferred to nuclear engineering and health physics baccalaureate degree programs in state and nationally.

To learn more about the scholarship and the Nuclear Engineering Technology program curriculum, call Professor James Sherrard, Nuclear Program Chairman, at 860-215-9472. Or, visit www.threerivers.edu/nuclear to learn more and complete the online application.

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Three Rivers College Foundation receives $109,000 from Dominion Energy

Three Rivers College Foundation received $109,000 from Dominion Energy to support full tuition scholarships for students in the Nuclear Engineering Technology Degree Program.

The only program of its kind in New England, the Nuclear Engineering Technology Degree Program is considered the best in the nation. Through classroom, laboratory, and simulator instruction, it educates students in the theories underlying the safe operation of nuclear power generating stations. The Dominion Nuclear Connecticut Millstone Power Station Engineering Technology Scholarship Program has been an exemplary collaborative effort.

For students interested in beginning the program in the Fall of 2021, the scholarship application deadline is February 15, 2021. Visit www.threerivers.edu/nuclear to read more and complete the on-line application.

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In the News | At Three Rivers, nuclear simulator with new tech offers unique learning experience

Norwich, CT (The Day, February 29, 2020) — Joe Amarello began the nuclear simulator laboratory class Thursday afternoon at Three Rivers Community College by explaining to his students that the nuclear reactor was at 5% power.

The students had been operating the simulator at 100% power for the past month, so this was new for them. It was also the first time they were operating the main turbine.

Blake Brochu and Corey Levesque worked as a team at one of the large screens while Joseph Whitmore and Faysal Prodhan sat on their right in front of a second screen; the lab is capped at four students per class, and so there is more than one class.

To an outsider, the screen looks like an impossible-to-follow flowchart made up of green triangles and circles, inscrutable acronyms and fluorescent green levels that are measuring … something.

But for the four students, who are all in the second year of the nuclear engineering technology program at Three Rivers and on track to graduate in May, it’s very helpful.

The simulator “gives you a little insight on how it’s an engineering marvel,” Whitmore said of nuclear reactors. Brochu chimed in with a smile, “Plus, if we do something wrong, it’s not awful.”

Program coordinator Jim Sherrard said Three Rivers has a nuclear simulator, rather than the actual reactor a 4-year nuclear program would have, because it’s more affordable and doesn’t come with the security risks.

But it also has the benefit of allowing instructors to program in problems for students to handle, whether it’s a leak or a valve failure or a problem with the cooling system from Long Island Sound.

“With a simulator training environment, you can actually do things to the power plant that you could not do at a real power plant,” Amarello said. For example, he could simulate that one of the cooling pumps is going to fail, or two. If all three fail, he said, the reactor is going to “trip” faster, meaning the reactor will shut down for safety reasons. And then the alarms go off.

“We call this the ultimate what-if machine,” Sherrard said.

And now, he said, the nuclear engineering technology program at Three Rivers is the only place in the world with a certain kind of new hardware and software.

“The modeling is a little more robust, a little cleaner, a little more responsive,” Amarello said.

Sherrard added that the new technology is faster and more accurate. He said it came from the Maryland-based simulation technology company Western Services Corp., was installed in December and January, and cost about $50,000.

The hardware and software operate on a simulator that is six or seven years old and that Western Services also developed for Three Rivers, Sherrard said. Before that, students had been using the same analog simulator since 1990, and it met their needs but he couldn’t find parts for it anymore.

This associate degree program is the only one of its kind in New England and one of three in the country, according to Three Rivers. Sherrard said it was set up in 1983 because of the Three Mile Island accident, and he came on board in 1985, after retiring from the military.

The simulator is used during the capstone class students take their final semester, which involves a one-hour lecture and two-hour lab session each week. Amarello said he also lets his students come into the lab on Mondays to practice.

Amarello retired from Millstone Power Station in Waterford last year, and Whitmore commented that for the lab, it’s “better to not just have a teacher but a teacher who worked in the field, so the accident conditions are a little more realistic.”

At the end of the semester, Sherrard brings in someone who has never seen the students before to administer a one-hour oral exam, and the entire grade for the course is based on that one hour.

“Everything they’ve taken early on comes to bear on this simulator,” he said. And he said that if students don’t do well on the simulator, word makes its way to Millstone Power Station in Waterford.

But there’s a world of options beyond Millstone, with Sherrard saying it’s not unusual for graduates to be recruited in Texas and the Carolinas. Brochu — whose mother, father, brother and uncle all work at Millstone — said he hopes to get a bachelor’s degree after finishing the program.

Prodhan, who moved to the U.S. from Bangladesh in 2013, said he was going to do accounting but liked the nuclear program better, saying it’s more challenging. Levesque said that because of the program, for the first time he actually loves being in school.

 

— By Erica Moser, Day staff writer

The original article can be found here: ‘At Three Rivers, nuclear simulator with new tech offers unique learning experience’

 

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Full Scholarships Available for Nuclear Engineering Technology Program — Deadline is February 15

Three Rivers Community College and Millstone Station (Dominion Nuclear Connecticut) are again offering 16 full scholarships for the Nuclear Engineering Technology Degree program. It is the only program of its kind in New England and is considered the best in the nation. Through classroom, laboratory, and simulator instruction, this program educates students in the theories underlying the safe operation of nuclear power generating stations. For students interested in beginning the program in the Fall of 2019, the application deadline for the scholarship is February 15, 2019.

The scholarships cover the full cost of tuition, books, and fees for a two-year associate degree program, starting with the Fall 2019 semester.  Additionally, students receive a guaranteed $150 per month stipend during the nine-month academic year and have a twelve-week paid internship experience at the Millstone Nuclear Station during the summer between their first and second academic year. This gives the students the opportunity to see nuclear utility operations first hand and develop significant practical work experience.

Those opting to enter the workplace as technicians have found their education and experience in strong demand by Connecticut business and industry. Prior scholarship recipients, upon completion of the program, have successfully transferred to nuclear engineering and health physics baccalaureate degree programs nationally.

To learn more about the scholarship and the Nuclear Engineering Technology program curriculum, call Professor James Sherrard, Nuclear Program Chairman and Scholarship Program Coordinator, at 860-215-9472. Or, visit threerivers.edu/nuclear to read more about the program and visit here to download the application.

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Nuclear Engineering Technology, A.S.

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This is the only program of its kind in New England, one of three in the country, and considered the best in the nation. Through classroom, laboratory, and simulator instruction, this program will educate you in the theories underlying the safe operation of nuclear power generating stations. Additional “hands-on” experience may be gained through 12 weeks of summer co-op employment at Millstone Station’s nuclear power plants.  This program operates in cooperation with Millstone Station to prepare you as an entry-level technician primarily for the commercial nuclear power industry. Millstone Station offers full scholarships through the college for up to 15 full-time freshmen enrolling in the Nuclear Engineering Technology program. However, the program is open to all qualified students, with or without scholarship aid.  This career path involves further training by the utility and successful completion of a license examination administered by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. For many students, the Associate Degree in Nuclear Engineering Technology is but one step in their academic career as they move on to pursue higher degrees upon graduating from Three Rivers.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][mk_fancy_title color=”#cb1d5c” size=”30″ margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”Oswald” font_type=”google”]Full-Ride Scholarships Available[/mk_fancy_title][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1678644105938{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]

Dominion Nuclear Connecticut supports promising candidates for this Nuclear Engineering Technology program through its Dominion Nuclear Connecticut Millstone Power Station Engineering Technology Scholarships.

Up to sixteen two-year scholarships are awarded annually and cover the full cost of the program including tuition and fees, books and a monthly stipend.

To be accepted into the Nuclear Engineering Technology degree program, students must meet the specific admission requirements along with other factors. Learn more and complete the online Technology Energy Scholarship Application here. Scholarships are limited – Apply NOW! 

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Plan of Study

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See below for a list of all full-time Department Faculty. Please note that not all listed faculty may teach courses related to this specific degree or certificate program.

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$80K – $102K

Median Salary*

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