Sustainable Design Courses and Certifications

Sustainable Product Design

Design products with measurable life cycle data: run classical and fast-track LCA, apply the 9R circular framework, and navigate RoHS/REACH/WEEE, eco-labels, and carbon accounting.

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

Product Design for Sustainable Healthcare

Learn a step-by-step approach to designing sustainable products for healthcare. Assess environmental impacts of health products and develop a circular redesign proposal for your own case.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Career Certificate

Sustainable Engineering Design

Design products for a circular economy: apply reuse, repair, remanufacturing and recycling strategies, systems thinking and lifecycle design to product development and business value creation.

• edX
• 13 weeks, 3-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $349.00
• 2 courses

Career Certificate

Sustainable Design of Electronics

Design electronics for a circular economy: optimize recyclability of electrical and electronic equipment, apply recycled plastics, and weigh recycling technologies, legislation, and business models.

• edX
• 11 weeks, 3-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $259.00
• 2 courses

Build Academy

Principles Of Sustainable Design

Learn about the context, motivations, frameworks and perspectives necessary to build a deeper understanding of sustainability and to form a solid foundation for sustainable design.

• Independent
• 7 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Design Theory

Why Companies Can't Design Sustainable, Eco-Friendly Products

1 rating

An industrial design analysis of how scale, materials, incentives, and product life cycles make sustainable products difficult to create.

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

Circular Fashion: Design, Science and Value in a Sustainable Clothing Industry

42 ratings

The fundamentals of circular fashion unraveled, learn about circularity in all steps of the fashion value chain. From new textile materials and circular design all the way to business modelling.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 8-12 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

NPTEL-NOC IITM

Strategies for Sustainable Design - Welcome Lecture

Explore sustainability concepts, environmental challenges, and strategies for sustainable design. Learn about biocapacity, ecological overshoot, and key environmental issues.

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

Green Building and LEED for Homes

52 ratings

Explore green building principles, LEED certification for homes, and sustainable design strategies. Gain insights into net-zero energy homes and integrated project delivery methods.

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

Design Thinking for a Sustainable Business Canvas Model

Learn to apply design thinking and the Business Model Canvas to build innovative, sustainable business strategies for real-world impact.

• OpenLearning
• 40 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

CU Boulder;  Siemens

Packaging Design for the Circular Economy

24 ratings at Coursera

A product is only as circular as its packaging: study packaging systems, design requirements, materials from paperboard to bioplastics, recycling advances, and reuse business models.

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

Eindhoven University of Technology

MaaS: Adoption and Use

Evaluate Mobility as a Service potential before investing: collect travel data from citizens and study analyses predicting adoption rates, optimal service design, and environmental impact.

• Coursera
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Designing Electronics for Recycling in a Circular Economy

7 ratings at edX

Discover the latest developments in Design for Recycling (DfR) of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) and the application of recycled plastics into new products.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Ecodesign: designing products with low environmental impact

An introduction to ecodesign strategies and tools for creating products with low environmental impact.

• Polimi OPEN KNOWLEDGE
• 5 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Career Certificate

Sustainable Product Design for Engineers

Design products from user need to a validated environmentally responsible outcome: user research, ideation, prototyping, Design for X, Life Cycle Assessment, disassembly and recycling, and RoHS/REACH compliance.

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