Graduate Academic Certificate in Nuclear Detection, Instrumentation & Methods

Overview

The Nuclear Safety and Technology Micro-credentials provide the fundamental knowledge required for careers in the nuclear industry. The Graduate Academic Certificate in Nuclear Detection, Instrumentation & Methods is one of three graduate certificates in the micro-credential suite and is designed to give the foundational knowledge of the theory, instrumentation, and techniques of radiation  measurement and analysis of radiation physics problems in various fields. This graduate-level micro-credential provides learners with in-depth knowledge for professions that utilize or develop nuclear instrumentation.

Admission Requirements

• Honours B.Sc. degree in Physics or Engineering Physics with at least a B+ average in the final year. Applicants with an Honours B.Sc. in other science disciplines will be considered for admission if they have received a good grounding in physics
• Since instruction is in English, international students whose first language is not English must take either the TOEFL (iBT) and achieve a score of at least 92 (580 on the written version or 237 on the computer version), or the IELTS with an overall score of 6.5 (no less than 5.5 in each section). Students may be exempted from the language test requirement if they completed a degree where the official language of instruction and evaluation was English.

Course Requirements

• MED PHYS 773 / Physics of Radiation Detection and Measurement
• MED PHYS 774 / Monte Carlo Simulation for Medical, Health and Radiation Physics