Environmental Engineering Courses and Certifications

Stanford Seminar - Environmental Engineering and Water Quality

19 ratings

Explores where an engineering mindset can help address climate-driven problems through possible interventions, remediation, and adaptation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

IIT Roorkee;  NPTEL

Basic Environmental Engineering and Pollution Abatement

Explore environmental engineering fundamentals with a focus on designing equipment and processes for pollution abatement.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks
• Available until Oct 9, 2026
• Free Online Course

NPTEL;  IIT Kharagpur

Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science

3 ratings

An introductory course connecting environmental engineering fundamentals—water, wastewater, air, and solid waste treatment—with life-cycle thinking and circular economy.

• YouTube
• 1 day 9 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL;  IIT Madras

Civil - Water and Wastewater Engineering

67 ratings

A civil engineering survey of water and wastewater quantity, quality, treatment processes, distribution, sewerage, reuse, and rural sanitation.

• YouTube
• 1 day 15 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Global Environmental Management

5 ratings

Explore how the environment is managed worldwide: utility and solid waste systems, storm water and urban water technologies, groundwater protection, sustainable soil management, and integrated water resources management.

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

NPTEL-NOC IITM

Introduction to Environmental Engineering

Explore the role of engineers in mitigating human-induced environmental damage and learn the fundamentals of environmental engineering.

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

Environmental Engineering and Water Quality

10 ratings

Explores how an engineering mindset can guide responses to climate problems, with a focus on environmental engineering and water quality.

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

Natural Attenuation of Groundwater Contaminants: New Paradigms, Technologies, and Applications

511 ratings at Coursera

Learn to evaluate and implement Monitored Natural Attenuation of groundwater plumes, covering biodegradation, abiotic degradation, matrix diffusion, compound-specific isotope analysis, molecular biological tools, and remediation modeling.

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

Municipal Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries

10 ratings

Examine municipal solid waste management in low- and middle-income countries: composting and anaerobic digestion, hazardous, e-waste and plastic fractions, governance, financing, and system planning.

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

Khalifa University Career Certificate

Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) Engineering

315 ratings at Coursera

Design integrated HSE systems: apply regulatory compliance frameworks, perform hazard and risk assessments, implement ISO 14001-aligned environmental management systems, and put sustainability strategies into practice.

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

IIT Roorkee;  NPTEL

Environmental Modeling and Simulation

Builds environmental models and simulations using nonlinear dynamics, Monte Carlo methods, and MATLAB or Octave across ecological and pollution systems.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks
• Available until Oct 9, 2026
• Free Online Course

Industry Decarbonization - Reducing GHG Emissions from Iron, Steel, and Cement

Discover decarbonization strategies for major industrial sectors like iron, steel, and cement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change.

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

NPTEL;  IIT Roorkee

Environmental Remediation of Contaminated Sites

The course details the usual remediation techniques practiced worldwide and provides an understanding of the relevant theoretical concepts. you will develop an understanding of integrated approaches to remediating contaminated sites

• YouTube
• 1 day 8 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Environmental Engineering: Drinking Water Treatment

1 rating

Understand what makes water clean or dirty and what are being done at water treatment facilities to make water safe to drink.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 1-2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Environmental Engineering: Air Pollution and Treatment

Understand different types of air pollution problems (including climate change), what causes them and how we can prevent or minimize these air problems.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 1-2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate