Forensic Science Courses

Making Science and Engineering Pictures: A Practical Guide to Presenting Your Work

Create effective science and engineering photographs using cameras, flatbed scanners, and mobile devices; apply lighting and composition, design journal figures, and evaluate generative AI ethics.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Probability - The Science of Uncertainty and Data

Build and analyze probabilistic models: random variables, distributions, means and variances, probabilistic calculations, inference methods, laws of large numbers, and random processes.

• MITx Online
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Philosophical Issues in Brain Science

Philosophy of mind tested against psychology and neuroscience: innate concepts, mental images, color, and whether consciousness can have a science, with guest researchers.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Climate Action Hands-On: Harnessing Science with Communities to Cut Carbon

Use citizen science to frame climate problems, measure methane leaks, collect field data, and support environmental legal action and community carbon reduction.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Principles of Chemical Science

The course covers basic principles of atomic and molecular electronic structure, thermodynamics, acid-base and redox equilibria, chemical kinetics, and catalysis.

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

Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering: The Art and Science of Boat Design

Carve a wooden half-hull model, translate its shape into a lines plan with a naval architect, and compare the group's boat designs.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Use of Joint Fact Finding in Science Intensive Policy Disputes, Part I

Science is only one of many stakeholder interests: analyze cases of joint fact finding in contentious environmental disputes over ecosystems and natural resources management.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Computational Science and Engineering I

Apply linear algebra to engineering problems: eigenvalues and positive definite matrices, springs, trusses and networks, finite differences and finite elements, Laplace's equation, Fourier series, convolution and the FFT.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Feeling and Imagination in Art, Science, and Technology

A seminar examining how feeling and imagination shape creativity and aesthetic value across art, science, technology, literature, and human nature.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Innovation Systems for Science, Technology, Energy, Manufacturing, and Health

Examines how government and public-private partnerships shape innovation systems across computing, advanced manufacturing, energy, and health.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Climate Action Hands-On: Harnessing Science with Communities to Cut Carbon

Learn how citizen science can help communities measure methane leaks, use scientific evidence, and take action on climate change.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Computational Data Science in Physics I

Analyze LIGO data to detect a gravitational wave signal and fit it to a physical model using Fourier analysis, matched filtering, and data fitting in Jupyter notebooks.

• MITx Online
• 6 weeks, 10-15 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Computational Data Science in Physics II

Apply computational methods to physics research: hypothesis testing with f- and t-tests, likelihood ratios, splines, and deep learning to analyze LHC data for W and Z boson properties.

• MITx Online
• 7 weeks, 10-15 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Computational Data Science in Physics III

Simulate physics processes: solve numerical differential equations, run Monte Carlo and finite element simulations, and apply physics-informed machine learning to lattice models like the Ising model.

• MITx Online
• 7 weeks, 10-15 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Career Certificate

Statistics and Data Science (General Track)

Master the skills needed to become an informed and effective practitioner of data science who adds value to your organization across industries.

• edX
• 68 weeks, 10-15 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $1,350.00
• 5 courses