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TAMU ANS Student Chapter Helps Local Scouts with Merit Badge
11/11/2009 (Source: Nuclear News)

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On Saturday, October 24th, The Texas A&M Chapter of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) hosted local Boy Scout Troop 743 to help them complete the requirements for the Nuclear Science Merit Badge. ANS Scouting Coordinator, Wes Deason, organized and planned the event. Wes, a former Eagle Scout, was “excited to help ANS host its first merit badge workshop.”

Scouts spent their entire day at A&M learning about nuclear science. They learned about nuclear . . .

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The Texas A&M Nuclear Engineering Department is currently the largest in the USA, with 291 undergraduate and 111 graduate students. But even more importantly, our academic program educates and prepares nuclear professionals for careers that span the full gamut of this extraordinary technical discipline. Accordingly, the Texas A&M Nuclear Engineering Department faculty has a wide spectrum of expertise and research interest, and we support an impressive list of research facilities. We are currently ranked second nationally in both undergraduate and graduate studies among public universities. Our students maintain one of the highest cumulative grade point averages on campus, and we boast a very significant number of National Merit Scholars. Yet, with all this, we are a relatively small department in which students have easy access to the faculty. We are committed to maintaining a "family environment."

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"Excellence as a Core Value"

Photo of the Department Head Over the last year, the College of Engineering has been engaged in a strategic planning process which has resulted, most recently, in publication of a College of Engineering 10-Year Strategic Research Plan. Prior to this, however, the Steering Committee spent some time revisiting and reflecting on our common "values," in part as a means for establishing a strong foundation for the strategic initiatives that the Dean has chartered us to develop for the College.

Being the "biggest" Department of Nuclear Engineering in the country is simply not enough--we must also strive to be the "best!"

In the next few months, I would like to reflect on several of these "values" in this column, attempting to focus them on issues more relevant to our Department. For starters, I would like to begin with "Excellence". It is my belief that no matter what role we play in our academic community (student, faculty, or staff), a commitment to uncompromised standards of excellence in everything we do is the ultimate key to our success as individuals, as a Department, as well as a University. It is essential for us to internalize this value if we are to seek national prominence at any level. Being the "biggest" Department of Nuclear Engineering in the country is simply not enough--we must also strive to be the "best!" In Texas A&M's Vision 2020, "excellence" was regarded as one of the University's core values. To quote from that study: "We will seek excellence in everything we do. We will define excellence by a broad universe of national and global standards, and by objective standards of achievement and/or contribution. . . .

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