31 October 2024 | 1 minute read

AWE launches new Defence Nuclear Safety Engineering MSc Course

AWE is proud to announce the introduction of a new postgraduate education course in Defence Nuclear Safety Engineering, as part of our strategic alliance with Cranfield University. The course aims to help students understand the principles of modern nuclear warhead design, with modules grouped into: Nuclear Warhead Safety; Systems Engineering; and Explosives Ordnance Engineering.

The course blends existing Cranfield University modules along with new material being delivered by AWE. This week is the first of the new AWE-run modules, and the occasion was marked by a formal opening ceremony with special guest Dame Helen Atkinson DBE, Deputy Vice Chancellor and Head of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Cranfield University.

Mandy Savage, Executive Director Engineering, said: “The creation of this postgraduate course demonstrates AWE’s commitment to investing in its people and supporting the UK’s STEM pipeline. Our people are our best assets! It also provides an enduring mechanism of passing on the vast amounts of nuclear safety knowledge built up by some of our highly skilled subject matter experts.”

The course is part time and made up of a selection of one-week modules, which can be undertaken by AWE and DNO employees as stand-alone modules or towards a qualification: PGCert, PGDip or MSc.

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