ISU loses nuclear engineers

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POCATELLO — Richard Jacobsen, the dean of Idaho State University’s College of Engineering, said the university has slowly been losing faculty both to private industry and larger universities due to the continued growth in jobs in the nuclear energy field.

“Salaries for people graduating in nuclear engineering are extremely high right now,” Jacobsen said. “Some of the students who graduate get hiring bonuses and fantastically good salaries.”

Jacobsen said his department has felt the effects of the trend in recent months.

Thomas Hartmann and Patricia Paviet-Hartmann, both Idaho Falls-based research associate professors, left ISU’s College of Engineering midway through the summer. Paviet-Hartmann did research with scientists at the Idaho National Laboratory and is now part of faculty at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

Jacobsen said assistant professor Jianwei Chen also left the nuclear engineering program midway through the summer to take a position in the private nuclear energy industry.

However, given the salaries and the demand, Jacobsen said the faculty departures have not surprised him.

“Nuclear engineering department faculty are leaving all over the country. Good offers are going to be made,” he said. “We were hoping those people would stay.”

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