English Courses

A Decarbonized Electric Power Sector - Understanding Industry Changes and Solutions

Explore how the electricity industry is changing as supply decarbonizes and electrification, rate design, distributed resources, and utility models evolve.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Nuclear Fusion: From Basic Principles to Future Energy Frontiers

Explore what fusion is and how people and companies are working to harness it for energy, including current portfolios and future directions.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Introduction to Energy Policy and Policy Instruments

Explores how political power, money, and energy justice shape clean energy policies and just transitions.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Accounting for Human Engagement Behavior to Enhance AI-Assisted Decision Making

Examines how people’s heuristics and biases shape their reliance on AI recommendations, and how decision aids can adapt to improve human-AI decisions.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Modeling Humans for Humanoid Robots - A Two-Level Learning Framework

A two-level framework uses human video to predict body and hand actions, then combines those predictions with teleoperated and imitation-trained robot skills.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

AI in the Workplace: Rethinking Skill Development

Explore how generative AI could reshape workplace training and support individual and team skill development.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Energy Storage Technologies and Applications for the Grid

A grid-focused overview of why energy storage is needed, the technologies available, and how storage is used across grid applications.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Electricity Generation: From History to Future Directions

Explains how electricity is generated and compares its economics through levelized cost of energy, with attention to environmental effects and future directions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Biomass Energy: From Wood Materials to Municipal Waste Management

Explore how biomass energy is captured from wood, animal waste, municipal solid waste, and sewage, and its role in the energy system.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Ocean Energy: Harnessing Power from Tides, Waves, and Thermal Gradients

An overview of how ocean energy is captured through tides, currents, waves, temperature differences, and salinity gradients, with attention to environmental effects and future prospects.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Nuclear Fission - Significance, History, and Commercial Applications

An overview of commercial nuclear fission traces its history and role in energy, then examines environmental, health, safety, and economic considerations.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Accelerating Energy Transition - Where Our Energy Comes From and Why We Should Care

Frames today’s energy transitions as a possible revolution, starting with where energy comes from and why it matters.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Transformers in Diffusion Models for Image Generation and Beyond

Explores how transformer architectures replace or augment U-Nets in diffusion models, including attention variants and promising efficiency directions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Energy, the Environment, and Justice

A look at how energy use affects air, water, land, and wildlife, and why those impacts raise questions of energy justice.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Energy Efficiency - Introduction to Applications, Design Approaches, and Decarbonization Role

Explore how an integrative design approach to energy efficiency can support decarbonization.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video