Course Title: Radiation Protection
Course Number: 431
Professor: Peter G. Groer
Nuclear Engineering Department
210 Pasqua Engineering Building
Ph: 423-974-5048  Fax: 423-974-0668
E-mail: groer@utk.edu

Course Description and Goals:

Radiation Protection is a senior level course intended to prepare students for entry level positions in health physics, radiological engineering, radiological assessment or radiation safety. This course presents students an introduction to interactions of ionizing radiation with matter, internal and external radiation dosimetry, radiation detection and biological effects of ionizing radiation.

Prerequisites: Senior standing, NE301

Text: Atoms, Radiation and Radiation Protection, 2nd edition.
Author: James E. Turner
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons (1995)

References:

1. Herman Cember, Introduction to Health Physics, 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill, 1996
2. Morris H. DeGroot, Probability and Statistics, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1986

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