English Courses

Transportation - Environmental Impact and Decarbonization Options

A concise overview of transportation’s climate footprint and decarbonization options, including electric vehicles.

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

Career Certificate

Introduction to SQL & Databases

Learn relational databases and SQL end to end: queries, indexes, transactions, triggers, views, OLAP, relational algebra, normal forms, UML modeling, and XML/JSON semistructured data.

• edX
• 10 weeks, 8-10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $310.00
• 5 courses

The Electricity Grid - Transmission, Industry, and Markets

See how electricity moves through the grid, how the industry is organized, and how reliability and electricity trading are managed.

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

Interest-based and Ideological Biases in Online Content Consumption: Problems and Solutions

A research talk argues that unequal exposure to political content may matter more for democracy than algorithmic paths to radical content, and examines interventions to broaden exposure.

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

Coal - Mining, Processing, Transportation, and Environmental Impacts

A life-cycle overview of coal traces the fuel from mining and transport to electricity generation, weighing its environmental, social, and economic impacts.

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

AI and Climate - From Grids to Data Centers - AI Strategy and Innovation

A discussion of how AI is accelerating efficiency and innovation across energy grids, data centers, and sustainability initiatives.

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

Ocean Energy - Technologies, Environmental Impacts, and Future Trends

An overview of how tidal flows, waves, ocean heat, and salinity gradients can be harnessed for energy, including environmental impacts and future prospects.

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

Buildings, Energy and Decarbonization

Explains how buildings can reduce climate impact through embodied and operational decarbonization, with strategies including efficiency, electrification, and renewable energy.

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

Biofuels - 10-Minute Take

A short introduction to how ethanol, biodiesel, renewable diesel, and sustainable aviation fuels are made and used, and what their environmental impacts may be.

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

Introduction to Renewable Energy

Explains what makes energy renewable and how renewables fit into energy use, with an overview of factors shaping project development.

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

Energy Storage - Introduction, Technologies, and Grid-Scale Deployment

Explore why energy storage is needed, compare storage technologies, and learn how grid-scale storage is deployed.

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

Energy Policy - 10 Minute Take

A concise introduction to how policy works, using U.S. energy policies and policy instruments as examples.

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

Electricity Generation - History, Economics, and Environmental Impacts

Explains how electricity is generated, then connects its simplified cost calculation to environmental impacts and future directions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Electrify Everything - Benefits and Challenges of Electrifying Buildings, Transportation, and Industrial Processes

Explore the benefits and challenges of electrifying end uses, from building heat pumps to transportation EVs.

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

Hydroelectric Power - History, Operations, and Environmental Impacts

Explains how flowing water becomes electricity, connecting hydropower’s facilities and operations with its environmental impacts and future.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video