Optimization & Operations Research Courses and Certifications

Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Learn to optimize manufacturing and service operations through production planning, quality control, inventory, forecasting, and operations research models.

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

Basics of Mechanical Engineering - 3

A broad mechanical engineering survey linking fluid flow, thermal sciences, heat transfer, and engineering optimization.

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

IIT Bombay;  NPTEL

Distributed Optimization and Machine Learning

Design and analyze distributed optimization algorithms under communication, network, computational, and robustness constraints, with applications to machine learning.

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

Economic Operations and Control of Power Systems

Analyze and optimize electric power system operation using economic dispatch, unit commitment, power flow, security analysis, and modern control methods.

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

Engineering Design Optimization - Linear Constrained Optimization

Learn to optimize engineering systems within a formal framework, with emphasis on multidisciplinary design optimization across linear and nonlinear problems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Convex Optimization I - Lecture 1

An opening lecture in a course on convex optimization.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Convex Optimization I - Lecture 2

A second lecture in a course devoted to convex optimization.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Convex Optimization I - Lecture 4

A lecture from Stephen Boyd’s Convex Optimization I course, presenting the subject through a Stanford engineering course.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Convex Optimization I - Lecture 7

A lecture in Stanford’s Convex Optimization I course, taught by electrical engineering professor Stephen Boyd.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Convex Optimization I - Lecture 13

Lecture 13 of Convex Optimization I, a course focused on convex optimization.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Matrix Calculus for Machine Learning and Beyond - IAP 2023

Master matrix calculus for machine learning with MIT's comprehensive approach to derivatives in higher dimensions, optimization, and automatic differentiation techniques.

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

NPTEL;  IIT Kharagpur

Optimal Control

Applies optimization theory to optimal control, progressing from KKT and simplex methods to LQR, stability, robustness, and H-infinity formulations.

• YouTube
• 2 days 10 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL;  IIT Kanpur

Applied Optimization for Wireless, Machine Learning, Big Data

This course is focused on developing the fundamental tools/ techniques in modern optimization as well as illustrating their applications in diverse fields such as Wireless Communication, Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Big Data and Finance.

• YouTube
• 1 day 11 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Organic Chemistry Tutor

Linear Programming

Learn to model profit and sales word problems with objective functions and linear inequalities, then use corner points to find the optimal production plan.

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

Professor Leonard

Calculus 3 - Finding Extrema of Functions of 2 Variables (Max and Min)

Learn to find relative and absolute extrema of functions of two variables, including optimization applications.

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