List of Online Courses and Certifications

edX aims to increase access to quality education for learners everywhere, enhance campus and online teaching, and advance learning by means of research. Primer on RF Design course is being offered by edX and Purdue University.

Primer on RF Design course will teach the participants the essentials of RF design. It is built as a base course for students or engineers who do not have an in-depth background in high-frequency electronics. Participants will learn about basic RF design principles and tools. They will have an understanding of the vital RF concepts and how they are connected to the design of practical RF blocks. 

This course should benefit engineers who need an understanding of the "RF language" and working knowledge of the important RF concepts. Primer on RF Design course is an important prerequisite to the two other courses of this series: RF Design: Passive and Active Components and RF System Design. It is expected that the learners first complete the Primer on RF Design course they enrol for the RF Design: Passive and Active Components and RF System Design courses. 

The Open Source and the 5G Transition certification course is a six-week-long online programme designed to educate you on the importance of open-source technologies. Curated by the Linux Foundation, the course will provide you with a broader perspective of why open-source is vital, now more than ever, in the mobile tech and wireless networking space.

Today, 5G networks are being constructed with open-source standards and software. With the help of edX’s Open Source and the 5G Transition online programme, you will understand why vendors and operators are using such technologies at a massive scale for 5G. You will also realise how open-source is sparking innovation for the rapid transition to 5G.

The Open Source and the 5G Transition online course by edX will also teach you how you can use this in-depth knowledge about open-source infrastructure for business benefits. This is an introductory training in ‘Business and Management’, which you can undertake for free during the audit track but is only open for a limited period. You can even get an e-certificate after you complete this course. The candidates will be able to access the course for an unlimited period if they put some money into getting enrolled by choosing the verified track.

National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology, Haridwar’s certified course in Arduino-Based Embedded System Design program is not only recognized by the government of India but is also a part of the Digital India (power to empower) campaign. This course provided by NIELIT deals with the basics and introduction to the embedded design system based on the Arduino Software. 

During the span of 4 to 6 weeks, this course imparts knowledge on a variety of subjects like the design, sufficiency and effectiveness of the Arduino System to provide solutions. The course gives an insight into the whole procedure of selection of an embedded processor, circuit design, circuit debugging and circuit layout.

Apart from that this course dives deep into the firmware design, development tools, firmware architecture and firmware debugging supplemented with imparting some hands-on skills to develop Arduino-based Embedded solutions, LCD interfacing, Jumper Wires and lastly some project work. 

The industry is quickly getting dominated by arm-based technologies. Therefore, the Embedded Systems Essentials with Arm certification program will help you get equipped with embedded systems that play a critical role in devices like mobiles, smartwatches, and wearables. 

The Embedded Systems Essentials with Arm certification syllabus will include free access to the Mbed simulator, which will help you apply your learnings to build real-world embedded applications without hardware. Furthermore, the course will touch upon embedded systems in IoT applications and help you understand the Arm architecture and processors that suit the application. 

Offered by Arm Education, the Embedded Systems Essentials with Arm online course is taught by Khaled Benkrid, Shuojin Hang, Mark Allen, and Tim Wilmshurst in an engaging and application-oriented manner. Under the faculty’s guidance, the course covers digital and analog I/O, time, and pulse width modulation to set up audio wave generators, low-power features, and more. 

The candidates may enroll in this course for free or by paying a certain amount of money. There are 2 tracks namely verified or audit track which offers direct access to the course materials. If the candidates opt for the verified mode they are entitled to unlimited access and if they opt for the audit access, they are going to receive only limited access to the course materials.

In the Mentoring engineers with impact training online course by edX, the candidate will be focused on the individuals who are managing and driving experts towards accomplishing their professional objectives. The course offers the candidate a bunch of apparatuses and standards with objectives and reasonable strategies to effectively begin and execute to finish a coaching cycle. As a coach, the candidate will focus on building up those abilities which will help the mentees to fabricate and support their upper hands.

The duration of the course is 6 weeks. Mentoring engineers with an impact certification syllabus is a short-term online course. An intermediate level of teaching will be there. It is a self-paced course that candidates can access according to their own comfortable timings. The candidate is requested to give their efforts of 1-2 hours weekly.

The candidate will be getting a verified course certificate of Mentoring engineers with an impacted program by the end of the course from edX. The certificate will be a shareable certificate that candidates can add to their LinkedIn account. The candidate can access the course for free or can take the upgraded course to get the certificate by the end of the course.

Incorporating Renewable Energy in Electricity Grids certification by Imperial College London via edX is a 6-week online course. The course explores the challenges of variable output renewables to achieve a reliable and stable electricity system and how these challenges can be addressed and at what costs. The Incorporating Renewable Energy in Electricity Grids online course from Imperial College London via edX also discusses the existing technologies, policies and operating processes to accomplish a flexible, stable, reliable electricity system with a high penetration of renewables like wind and solar.

The Incorporating Renewable Energy in Electricity Grids certification syllabus comprises a variety of country and context-specific examples to demonstrate the concepts. This introductory training course in renewable energy will be delivered by leading academics from Imperial College London, with technical input and contributions from the National Energy Renewable Lab (Golden, Colorado). Incorporating Renewable Energy in Electricity Grids certification course is the third in a series of courses of the Clean Power Hub. Participants can enroll in the free audit track with limited access or upgrade to the paid verified track directly.

Business sustainability is the key to making long-term profits, especially in a post-pandemic world. Not only are there obvious social and environmental advantages, but sustainable businesses draw more interest from investors. 

The University of Cambridge’s Circular Economy and Sustainability Strategies course is a 6-week course that teaches all about this business aspect. By putting in 4 to 6 hours per week, you can know the ins and outs of what makes a business strategy need to be followed to make it more sustainable and hence, successful. You can learn about the nuances between the 3 dimensions of sustainability – society, economy, and environment.

The Circular Economy and Sustainability Strategies course syllabus is divided into 6 modules and is comprehensive enough to give your business and career a much-needed boost. You will be taught with the help of video lectures, live webinars, group discussions, Q & A sessions, and assignments. The course is a completely online course, and you get access to its study materials for 12 months from the start date. 

Do you wonder how your train arrives at the right platform at the right time every day? It takes more than just tracks and trains for railway systems to work efficiently. The demand for transportation, for both passengers and freight, changes continuously. Innumerable advanced, technical, and complex operational solutions have to be employed to accommodate these changes. Take the Railway Engineering: An Integral Approach online course to dive deep into these and understand their workarounds.

The Railway Engineering: An Integral Approach certification syllabus covers topics such as the railway system’s history and evolution; the different components involved in railway systems, and how they interact. Students also learn about the social and economic impact of railway systems and ways to improve the maintenance and monitoring of railway tracks. External factors that disturb the proper functioning of railway systems and ways to prevent and deal with them are also covered in the curriculum.

The Delft University of Technology’s renowned experts and industry professionals will instruct you in the Railway Engineering: An Integral Approach program. The course is the first-of-its-kind MOOC focusing on railway systems. The curriculum also features a game wherein you can apply the concepts learned, make decisions, and analyze their consequences. The learners can either take the course by paying the fee or audit the programme free of cost. While taking the programme for free, the candidates can access it only for a limited period. 

Advanced Transport Phenomena training deals with every aspect of the transport phenomena. This course is at an intermediary level. It covers up the microbalances, radiation, convection, diffusion, and many more aspects of energy and heat. It is an engineering course designed to advance the already existing knowledge in the engineering domain. Here, practical guidance for successful implementation will be focused on. 

The complexity and the related problems in transport phenomena will be specifically dealt with in this course. This course is specifically for candidates who have an interest and knowledge in engineering. This program is self-paced. The course is offered by the DelftX institution. There is also a financial assistance scheme that offers a 90% discount coupon for purchasing the verified certificate. 

The Advanced Transport Phenomena program will be signed by the course instructor and it will contain DelftX’s logo. The certification is for those candidates who enrolled through the verified track. The certification will benefit the candidate with greater career prospects and new improved connections on Linkedin. The students can also audit the programme for a limited period in the free audit track. 

With over half of the world's population living in cities, there is an increasing trend in creating safer, smarter, and more environmentally friendly cities that are adaptive to their residents. According to a World Economic Forum report, in 2021, 83.6% of the population of North America lives in cities. The Beyond Smart Cities: Emerging Design and Technology online course go far beyond the normal optimisation of smart cities.

While most urban planning solutions concentrate on digital upgrades to preexisting urban infrastructure, the Beyond Smart Cities: Emerging Design and Technology training looks at how disruptive technologies may enhance the design, planning, and administration of modern cities in order to make them more sustainable in the future.

The Beyond Smart Cities: Emerging Design and Technology syllabus explores how innovations like artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, real-time simulations, innovative urban systems, and predictive urban design may be used to create more entrepreneurial, elevated, and livable urban areas, as guided by MIT experts.

The Wells Hydraulics programme is a six-week online certification that begins with a description of steady flow to wells. The notion of steady flow and radial coordinates to wells in unconfined and confined aquifers is introduced. Finite difference methods for modelling flow to wells are also explained in this programme. 

The Wells Hydraulics certification course by edX introduces slug tests and their analysis. After slug and well tests, topics such as well fields and issues of dewatering are studied. You will review the superposition principle and issues of domain boundaries before dewatering examples. It also covers the use of semi-automated and graphical methods to calculate aquifer properties from well tests. 

You will continue to learn about well fields concerning injection and extraction wells, with an example of an in-situ remediation design and a pump and treat design. Lastly, you will learn through an exemplar well model in MODFLOW. Moreover, the Wells Hydraulics online training gives you a verified certificate upon successful completion. You can share it to display your advanced skill set and knowledge. 

The Waste Management and Critical Raw Materials course will be an incentive to a wide scope of experts working in or inspired by this field. These incorporate experts associated with delivering items containing CRMs, (for example, gadgets) just as nearby or public government authorities entrusted with getting sorted out waste administration and reusing these items. Understudies inspired by the field of waste administration will likewise discover this course supportive for their examinations in gadgets, modern plans, and mechanical environments. The Waste Management and Critical Raw Materials training will likewise examine natural issues and electric and electronic waste guidelines and also, and we will take a gander at the possible advantages of roundabout acquirement and how reusing advancements and more proficient methods of gathering and reusing Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) can make your business and creation more asset strong.

The Waste Management and Critical Raw Materials certification course has gotten financing from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). The EIT was upheld by the European Union's Horizon2020 exploration and development program. The candidates can opt for any of the enrolment options, namely, verified and audit tracks. In the audit mode, the leaners can pursue the course free of cost and get access to the programme for a limited duration. 

The Chemistry- I certification course explores Quantum Chemistry and Molecular Spectroscopy. The curriculum delves into foundational principles such as the Schrödinger equation, particle confinement, and quantum mechanics postulates. Students gain a deep understanding of atomic orbitals, electron behavior in the hydrogen atom, and uncertainty principles.

The Chemistry- I certification by NPTEL focuses on the interaction of radiation with matter, Beer-Lambert law, and molecular vibrations. Students are equipped with analytical skills to calculate energy levels, transition frequencies, and concentrations of absorbing species, laying a solid groundwork for further study in quantum phenomena and molecular analysis.

The Introduction to Non Linear Dynamics certification course introduces students to the complexities of dynamic systems through analytical methods and real-world examples. It offers a practical understanding of phenomena in physics, biology, chemistry, and engineering, covering topics like bifurcations, phase plane analysis, and limit cycles.

Students will explore the behavior of one-dimensional and two-dimensional flows, learning about stability analysis, classification of linear systems, and the dynamics of oscillators. The Introduction to Non Linear Dynamics certification by NPTEL equips students with analytical skills and problem-solving abilities crucial for navigating nonlinear phenomena in diverse scientific contexts.

Agribusiness is a kind of business that concentrates on handling, distributing, promoting, and distributing agricultural products. Agribusiness aims to enhance operations to maintain reasonable rates. Challenges of Agribusiness Management certification course is developed by Bocconi University and taught by Vitaliano Fiorillo - Lecturer of Operations & Technology Management at SDA Bocconi School of Management, which is made available by Coursera.

Challenges of Agribusiness Management online training contains 5 hours of learning resources that focus on providing an in-depth understanding of the challenges and opportunities involved with agribusiness. With the Challenges of Agribusiness Management online course, individuals will be taught about concepts and strategies involved with agribusiness sustainability, agricultural system, agro-system, prosumerism, commoditization, service innovation, and much more.

The introductory-level The Search for Vernacular Architecture of Asia, Part 1 programme is a five-week course under the category of humanities. The course is formulated by the University of Hong Kong and will be instructed by Lee Ho Yin, David P. Y. Lung, Howard Davis, and Lynne D. DiStefano.

Candidates will explore vernacular architecture which includes the study of landscapes, buildings, and sites designed by local practitioners instead of professional architects. The Search for Vernacular Architecture of Asia, Part 1 certification training teaches about vernacular architecture from the perspective of indigenous traditions, assimilation, and local identity of various cultures. 

Interaction between locals, culture, native building material, vernacular landscape, and many more are covered under the course. Moreover, The Search for Vernacular Architecture of Asia, Part 1 online course focuses on Asian built heritage, including Japanese timber houses, Indian straw houses, and Mongolian leather yurts.

This course promotes dialogue and discussions related to the various concepts of vernacular. As a result, the candidates acquire knowledge of their local environment by stimulating more in-depth analysis and challenging perceptions. 

The course is one of the three parts in which the A system view of communications: From signals to packet (Part 3) certification course is divided. The course deals with answering the questions on how information is transmitted in mobile phones or a wifi hotspot. As the course is divided into three parts, the learners can learn the other parts as well for a complete or overall understanding. Part 3 mainly focuses on the transmission of data or information from one network to another and how it connects multiple stations. Here, productive and effective solutions are thought of for overcoming challenges and developing intuition.

A system view of communications: From signals to packet (Part 3) certification course is inspired and developed from the 6.02 Digital Communication Systems course. Its origin is MIT. This course is an introductory course as it focuses on the mathematical aspects of the engineering communication system. In part 3, the transmission of the network is analysed such as the internet. 

The certificate for the course is very valuable and highly marketable. The candidates can put the certificate in their CV or resume. It can be shared on Linkedin where new connections with better career prospects can take place. The candidates can learn at their own pace if they select either of the two available tracks namely the audit and verified track. Students will get limited access if they have selected the audit track and in case they have selected the verified track, they will receive unlimited access to the course materials.

The Mind of the Universe - Robots in Society: Blessing or Curse training is developed with a vision to understand how mixing machine learning and robotics will have a beneficial impact on our culture and our well-being. However, it also poses a lot of legal concerns. 

In this sequence, the following topics will be included as artificially intelligent robots remove our jobs or have had their own free will and also some scripture do-have the ability to take over the planet, or should we design robots to greater responsiveness to human emotions, and if so, how and under what circumstances would humans employ robotics for military applications? This will also discuss the design standards that designers should stick to and objectively focus on topics such as robot independence, knowledge, and intellect. This Mind of the Universe - Robots in Society: Blessing or Curse? the certification course will give you lots of learning opportunities on this critical topic, with discussions with top leading professionals. 

This series is a turn of the "brain of the world" documentary film developed by the VPRO. Several colleges are using the free software content from the documentary series as a reference point for related learning experiences.

A significant portion of the existing scientific knowledge on conversion relies on non-renewable fossil feedstock processing. However, biomass is the sole renewable feedstock. The Catalytic Conversions for Biobased Chemicals and Products programme explains how biomass contains the carbon atoms required to form molecules to produce fuels, materials, and chemicals. The Catalytic Conversions for Biobased Chemicals and Products training is designed to provide foundational knowledge on bio-catalytic conversions. You will learn about the design of effective catalytic procedures to convert bio-based feedstock into usable outputs. You will also learn about the usage of biocatalysts and how you can tweak them for certain benefits in biobased conversions.

You will also study chemical, biochemical, and microbial conversion routes with the Catalytic Conversions certification online course. Furthermore, you will learn how some conversion procedures are more efficient for a particular reactor. Throughout the course, you will have the chance to interact with scientists, chemists, and other experts from the field for a deeper understanding. Edx offers 2 separate tracks for completion of the course that can be used to opt in and get access either for a limited period or the access may be unlimited. If the students want limited access to the course materials they will have to choose the audit track and if they want unlimited access they can choose the free audit track.