Engineering Courses and Certifications

Career Certificate

Rocket Science 101

66 ratings at Coursera

Explore the global history of rocketry, how orbits work, how rocket engines function, and what space missions deliver, then weigh Hollywood's depictions against real rocket science.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Engineering: Building with Nature

2 ratings

Learn how to use ecological and engineering design principles to develop more effective and sustainable hydraulic infrastructure.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Prompt Engineering for Work: Fast AI Prompt Mastery

375 ratings at Udemy

Master prompt techniques, prompt patterns, and prompt templates to improve AI results at work from AI tools faster.

• Udemy
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The Basics of Rocket Science

48 ratings at Coursera

Explore how rockets fly: apply Newton's laws and thrust, compare solid, liquid, electric and nuclear engines, and examine orbits, escape velocity and trips to Mars.

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

West Virginia University

Wood Science: Beyond Building

786 ratings at Coursera

Explore wood as the only truly renewable raw material: its structure and properties, products from lumber to utility poles, and its role in the economy and environment.

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

MOS Transistors

155 ratings at Coursera

Learn how MOS transistors work and how to model them: long-channel DC operation, small-dimension effects, large-signal dynamic behavior, small-signal and high-frequency models, and compact models for simulation.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - Gender Disparities in Software Engineering

3 ratings

A conversation on how gender disparities persist in software engineering and what it takes to change hiring and workplace practices.

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

Materials Data Sciences and Informatics

352 ratings at Coursera

Apply data science to materials development: compute 2-point statistics, reduce dimensionality with PCA, build process-structure-property linkages, and navigate materials databases and integrated cyberinfrastructure workflows.

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

GIS: Geographic Information Systems for Sustainability

24 ratings at Coursera

Learn GIS fundamentals through the lens of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: read spatial patterns, design thematic maps, run overlay suitability analysis, and build story maps.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The History of Rocket Science

24 ratings at Coursera

Trace rocketry from the WWII V2 through the US–USSR space race and Apollo 11 to the Space Shuttle, ISS, small satellites, and commercial launch providers.

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

Introduction to 3D Printing with Metals

21 ratings at Coursera

Learn how metals are 3D printed: compare directed energy deposition, powder bed fusion, jetting-based binder processes, and friction-lamination, with an augmented reality printing experience.

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

Motion Planning for Self-Driving Cars

487 ratings at Coursera

Build a full autonomous driving planning stack: Dijkstra and A* mission routing, finite-state behaviour planning, occupancy grids, and smooth local paths tested in CARLA.

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

Career Certificate

Semiconductor Devices

629 ratings at Coursera

Learn how conduction works in semiconductors and analyze pn junctions, metal-semiconductor contacts, bipolar junction transistors, and MOS field effect transistors behind integrated circuits.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Prompt Engineering for Marketing

330 ratings at Codecademy

Practice writing, testing, and refining prompts with ChatGPT and Midjourney to create marketing copy, images, and campaigns.

• Codecademy
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Engineering for Your Classroom 4–9

Learn the knowledge, skills and resources to incorporate engineering design activities in your classroom!

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate