engineering

  1. edX

    edX Road Traffic Safety in Automotive Engineering

    Overview Engineers in the automotive industry are required to understand basic safety concepts. With increasing worldwide efforts to develop connected and self-driving vehicles, traffic safety is facing huge new challenges. This course is for students or professionals who have a bachelor’s...
  2. edX

    edX Hybrid Vehicles

    Overview Why are hybrid vehicles still more common than battery electric ones? Why are electric vehicles still more expensive than conventional or hybrid ones? In this course, you will get the answers to this and much more. While electric motors can improve vehicles regarding performance...
  3. edX

    edX Observation Theory: Estimating the Unknown

    Overview Are you an engineer, scientist or technician? Are you dealing with measurements or big data, but are you unsure about how to proceed? This is the course that teaches you how to find the best estimates of the unknown parameters from noisy observations. You will also learn how to assess...
  4. edX

    edX Advanced Transport Phenomena

    Overview How can you reduce the energy loss of your home? What is the underlying science of energy loss in pipes? Which heat and mass transfer problems do we have to tackle to make consumer products? In this engineering course, you will learn about the engineering principles that play an...
  5. edX

    edX The Basics of Transport Phenomena

    Overview Have you ever wondered why ventilation helps to cool down your hot chocolate? Do you know why a surfing suit keeps you warm? Why iron feels cold, while wood feels warm at room temperature? Or how air is transferred into aqueous liquids in a water treatment plant? How can we sterilize...
  6. edX

    edX Introduction to Engineering and Design

    Overview In this course, you will learn about the primary fields of engineering and explore the engineering design process, from conceptual design and optimal choice evaluation to prototyping and project construction. This introductory course focuses on specific engineering fields including...
  7. edX

    edX High Performance Finite Element Modeling

    Overview Engineering simulations are rapidly becoming fundamental in virtually all industrial sectors, from medicine to energy, aerospace and beyond. In this course, you will learn the breakthrough general adaptive finite element methods (AFEM) and open source FEniCS software that will position...
  8. edX

    edX High Performance Finite Element Modeling – Part 2

    Overview Engineering simulations are rapidly becoming fundamental in virtually all industrial sectors; from medicine to energy, aerospace and beyond. In this course, you will learn the breakthrough general adaptive finite element methods (AFEM) and open source FEniCS software that will enable...
  9. edX

    edX Introduction to Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG)

    Overview In this course you will learn how the geology of ground and drilling conditions require OCTG (Oil Country Tubular Goods) with different characteristics; how tubular string design is performed; and how selected products are manufactured and tested. The following concepts will be...
  10. edX

    edX Introduction to Running Pipe in Oil and Gas Wells

    Overview Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG) casing and tubing play a critical role in the drilling and completion of oil and gas wells. “Introduction to Running Pipe in Oil and Gas Wells” will explain how to prepare and install OCTG in oil and gas wells safely, illustrating best practices that...
  11. FutureLearn

    FutureLearn Through Engineers' Eyes - Introducing the Vision: Engineering Mechanics by Experiment, Analysis and Design

    Overview When you design anything, how do you know that the design will work? Engineering mechanics is the science-based analysis that engineers use to predict how their designs will perform. It is vital to ensure engineers can meet their responsibilities for performance and safety. In this...
  12. FutureLearn

    FutureLearn Through Engineers' Eyes - Expanding the Vision: Engineering Mechanics by Experiment, Analysis and Design

    Overview How can you ensure that your design will perform well and be safe? In this course, you will learn analytical skills, use them to understand experiments and apply them in design. You will be living in the engineer’s world. Following on from our companion course Through Engineers’ Eyes...
  13. FutureLearn

    FutureLearn Technical Report Writing for Engineers

    Overview Learn to communicate effectively through technical report writing Technical reports are a vital tool for engineers to communicate their ideas. This online course introduces technical report writing and teaches the techniques you need to construct well-written engineering reports. Each...
  14. FutureLearn

    FutureLearn An Introduction to Building Information Modelling

    Overview Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a process that encourages collaborative working. Why is it important? Why is the industry looking towards BIM and what historical issues does it aim to relieve? This course will help you develop a better understanding of BIM, the role it plays...
  15. Coursera

    Coursera Major Engineering Project Performance

    Overview Optimism bias and strategic misinterpretation regularly cause delays to major engineering projects. Learn how to manage large projects by identifying their key characteristics, examining the key factors and risks that affect their performance and exploring methods to counter their...
  16. Coursera

    Coursera Major Engineering Projects: Governance, Risk and Scope

    Overview Dealing with a complex network of stakeholders is a key feature of major projects. Gain confidence when dealing with stakeholders of major projects by learning to identify and manage those that are involved in the project planning and delivery and explore project governance in theory...
  17. Coursera

    Coursera Financing and Initiating Major Engineering Projects

    Overview Going over budget is one of the key reasons big projects fail. In this course you’ll understand typical investor and project financing approaches in major projects so that you are in a better position to successfully manage them. By taking this course, you’ll learn to interpret some...
  18. Coursera

    Coursera Engineering Project Management: Initiating and Planning

    Overview The goal of the course is to give you the tools to initiate a project plan, manage both stakeholders and relationships, organize their team, develop a project charter, and build a business case for a project. By the end of this course you will be able to: - Perform a project...
  19. Coursera

    Coursera Engineering Project Management: Scope, Time and Cost Management

    Overview Scope, time, and cost management are at the heart of successful project management. This course will give you the tools to develop a project scope, schedule and budget and then status them to predict project performance. Throughout the course, you will learn about change management and...
  20. Coursera

    Coursera Engineering Project Management: Risk, Quality, Teams, and Procurement

    Overview Many Project Managers focus only on the scope, schedule and budget. However, a successful project requires that you manage risk, control the quality of the deliverables, engage and manage people and procure goods and services. This course will focus on these key support functions that...
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