Maine Maritime Academy revives nuclear engineering program
The Castine college, which offered nuclear engineering until the mid-90s, is bringing the major back this year and received a $1.5 million gift to endow a chair of the program.
April 14, 2025
Riley Board Press Herald
The Maine Maritime Academy in Castine is bringing back a nuclear engineering program that it dissolved in the 1990s as the market for nuclear power changed.
“As nuclear power phased out for a little while, a lot of plants shut down, like Maine Yankee here in the state. The jobs went away, and Maine Maritime followed the trends of the market,” said Craig Johnson, the academy’s new president, who was appointed to the position in March. “As nuclear is certainly coming back as an option, and the maritime nuclear will be here in a few years … we need to provide what the market is looking for and stay current on all trends.”
The public maritime academy, one of six in the nation, offers several engineering majors, most of them focused on work that happens on ships: marine engineering, marine systems engineering and power engineering. But Johnson says as the country opens itself back up to the possibility of nuclear power, new opportunities will be created both on shore and at sea.
The college reintroduced a nuclear engineering minor this academic year, and 11 students are expected to graduate with it this spring. The stand-alone major will be available to students next fall.
The program will be supported by a $1.5 million gift from 1979 alumnus Guy Mossman, who made the donation in honor of his father Edward Mossman, a 1950 graduate of Maine Maritime. That endowment will fund a faculty chair position to oversee the department in perpetuity, the college said.
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Comment by Dan McKay on April 14, 2025 at 10:58am
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