Energy & Mineral Engineering Courses and Certifications

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Solar Power Generation

Design and analyze solar PV systems: PV cell types, tilt angles, charge controller, inverter and battery sizing, shading studies in SAM and PVSYST, and grid integration.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

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Wind Power Generation

Learn how wind turbines work, size them and optimize wind farm spacing, design power evacuation and grid connection, and evaluate bladeless designs like Vortex Bladeless and INVELOX.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

MathWorks

Battery Design and Management

Model, design, and manage batteries in Simulink and Simscape: cell characterization, pack configuration, safe charging algorithms, state-of-charge estimation, and cell balancing.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Starweaver

Innovations in Lithium Battery Technology

Examine lithium battery components, chemistry and history, then manufacturing and quality assurance processes, recent innovations, and the environmental and market impacts of energy storage.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

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Planning of Hydropower Projects

Plan hydropower projects: site selection, water availability and design flood studies, flood routing, geological and geotechnical investigation, and construction methods for headworks, powerhouses and underground works.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

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Components of Hydropower Structures

Explore hydropower infrastructure: headworks, barrages, dams and energy dissipators, retaining walls, turbines, valves and gates, plus tunnel investigation, rock support, excavation, ventilation and monitoring.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

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Design of Hydropower Structures

Design gravity and embankment dams, barrages, desilting basins, power intake structures, head race tunnels, surge shafts, penstocks and powerhouse floors for hydropower projects.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

L&T EduTech Career Certificate

Power Plant Engineering: From Theory to Industry Practice

Learn how thermal, combined-cycle and nuclear power plants work: thermodynamic cycles, boilers, steam turbines, generators, balance-of-plant systems, instrumentation and control, and emission control technologies.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 6 courses

Fusion Explained: The Geopolitics and Future of Energy

Explore how fusion powers the sun and why the U.S.–China race matters: national security stakes, energy economics, and the technical, financial, and regulatory hurdles to grid power.

• Coursera
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

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Coal Power Plants: Steam, Turbines & Emission Control

Learn how coal-fired power plants work: steam generators, fluidized bed and pulverized coal firing, coal mills, ESPs, FGD, SCR/SNCR, and steam turbines with their auxiliary systems.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Geothermal Energy Networks: Transforming Our Thermal Energy System

Explores how geothermal energy networks can decarbonize building heating and cooling through policy, design, construction, scaling, and techno-economic modeling.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Systems Thinking in Energy: Navigating Costs, Emissions, and Impact

Conduct systems-level energy analysis with the Sesame modeling tool: compare technologies and policies on cost, emissions, and tradeoffs to chart decarbonization pathways.

• MITx Online
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Social Problems of Nuclear Energy

Weighs nuclear power's capital costs, accident risks, waste and proliferation against renewables, asking whether decarbonization actually needs it.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Geothermal Energy Networks: Transforming Our Thermal Energy System

Analyze geothermal energy networks through energy-transition policy, heat-pump design, borehole construction, and techno-economic modeling with the HEATNETS model.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

D-Lab: Energy

Project-based approach that engages students in understanding and addressing the applications of small-scale, sustainable energy technology in developing countries where compact, robust, low-cost systems for generating power are required.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 16 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video