Systems Core Courses

Systems Engineering Fundamentals

Learn traditional systems engineering processes: general systems theory, risk management and the triple constraint, requirements elicitation and validation, Waterfall and V-model lifecycles, and system decomposition and architecture.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Systems Engineering Fundamentals Part 2

Apply systems architecture and requirements allocation, verification and validation, decision tools like FMEA and trade studies, and reliability, maintainability and configuration management across a system's lifecycle.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Scaling Scrum for Large Systems Engineering Projects

Scale Agile across multi-team engineering organizations: compare Agile and Waterfall, apply Scrum and Kanban, synchronize backlogs, and integrate MBSE and SysML with agile practices.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

FPGA Design for Embedded Systems

1751 ratings at Coursera

Design FPGA and CPLD systems: write Verilog and VHDL RTL, run synthesize-simulate-program-debug tool flows, and integrate soft-core processors and third-party IP on evaluation boards.

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

Innovative Governance of Large Urban Systems

185 ratings at Coursera

Cities as a three-phase value chain: study urban planning, metropolitan governance of institutional, financial and social justice issues, and regeneration strategies through global case studies.

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

Programming Reactive Systems

31 ratings at Coursera

Build reactive systems in Scala and Akka: sequence asynchronous computations with Futures, write untyped and typed actors, and handle infinite data streams with back-pressure.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 7 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Programming Reactive Systems (Scala 2 version)

Build reactive systems in Scala with Akka: sequence asynchronous computations with Futures, write untyped and typed actors, and process streams with back-pressure.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 7 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Geographical Information Systems - Part 2

Analyze spatial data in QGIS and Geoda: quantify spatial autocorrelation, interpolate with kriging, derive slope from digital elevation models, overlay layers, and design thematic maps.

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

University of Colorado System;  CU Boulder

Introduction to battery-management systems

2197 ratings at Coursera

Learn how lithium-ion cells work and what a battery-management system must do: sensing current, temperature and isolation, contactor control, protection components, and cell manufacturing failure modes.

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

University of Colorado System;  CU Boulder Career Certificate

Algorithms for Battery Management Systems

2586 ratings at Coursera

Model lithium-ion cells with equivalent-circuit simulations and write algorithms to estimate state-of-charge, state-of-health, remaining energy and available power, and to balance cells in a pack.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 5 courses

Medicosis Perfectionalis

Emergency Medical Services Introduction - EMT, Paramedics, and Life Support Systems

7 ratings

Introduces EMS through emergency medicine’s ABCs, linking airway and breathing to oxygenation and circulation to fluids, blood products, and vascular access.

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

Autonomous Aerospace Systems

47 ratings at Coursera

Design guidance and navigation for unmanned aircraft: UAS architecture, path following, GPS/INS integrated navigation, obstacle detection and tracking, and lateral and longitudinal autopilot design.

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

Comparative Political Systems

39 ratings at Coursera

Compare how democracies are governed: analyze parliamentary, presidential and semi-presidential regimes, party and electoral systems, coalition formation, and authoritarian versus democratic rule.

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

Modelling and simulation of mechanical systems

29 ratings at Coursera

Model and simulate mechatronic systems through three case studies: computer vision for controlling mechanical systems, electro-hydraulic shake tables, and the design of a smart tyre.

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

Seasons and Climate - Factors Affecting Earth's Climate Systems

Explores how latitude, terrain, continentality, ocean currents, and Earth’s axial tilt shape climate, precipitation, biomes, and seasonal patterns.

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