List of Online Courses and Certifications

The Image Analysis Methods for Biologists course provides a comprehensive study that will help improve your understanding of image processing and image analysis, its importance in phenotyping, various methods of image segmentation, among others. 

It not only provides information about the various aspects of image analysis, but it also introduces candidates to coding using python, provides practical experience of Fiji, and teaches how to make 3D models from 2D images. 

Moreover, the Image Analysis Methods for Biologists programme by FutureLearn has a top-notch panel of Nottingham University professors with years of experience. It also highlights what to watch for in the process and the advantages of using different methods. 

FutureLearn's Image Analysis Methods for Biologists is a four-week, 100% online course that requires an average weekly study time of three hours. It uses different methods of learning in the form of videos, articles, interactive discussions, and quizzes to evaluate your progress. 

While the course material is available for free for six weeks, with a fee, you can apply for a certificate and gain maximum output from the course.

Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary science that helps us understand and study the nervous system. Demystifying the Brain online program attempts to provide a computational perspective on how the brain functions. The elective course comes under Biological Sciences and Bioengineering subjects and is accessible for students from both engineering sciences and biological sciences. 

The Demystifying the Brain certification syllabus dives into the history and evolution of neuroscience and further explains neurons and the nervous system in detail. IIT Madras and Swayam learning have collaborated to deliver this FDP course free of cost to promote quality education for all. The best part is that you can easily finish the whole course in four weeks and even gain a verified digital certificate at the end. 

After finishing the short-term course, you just have to give a final exam to be eligible for the certificate to upgrade your CV.

Introduction to Dynamical Models in Biology certification is a 4-week programme launched by IIT Guwahati and NPTEL along with the association provider platform Swayam. This online free course is designed for understanding the different ever-changing models in biology.

Mathematical modeling in recent times has transformed into becoming an important part of ecology, biology, and cell biology. This Introduction to Dynamical Models in Biology training course tends to introduce the students of the biology field to different concerts and tools related to mathematics. The syllabus also focuses on the fundamental ODE-based concept of models which can be later on connected with the different experiments conducted for the subject Biology. Basically, the students shall get acquainted with topics like numerical simulation, cell signaling, analytical techniques, and more. The certification at the end can be cross-checked, and considered for verification on the NTPEL site by prospective employers.

Biomicrofluidics certification is a course that has been the design, and presentation of both NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur. This certificate course takes 4 full weeks to get over, and the level of this both is undergraduate or postgraduate where the credit point offered is one. Biomicrofluidics falls under the interdisciplinary domain that is known for using both microfluidics, and nanofluidics with the living system’s science so that medical diagnosis and drug delivery can be progressed further. 

Biomicrofluidics training will help with any emerging research field so that diseases can be understood by having a perspective in engineering along with aiding the development of diagnostic, portable, and inexpensive platforms. This will identify a person who is bearing any disease even present in a small body of fluid in the blood. Ultimately this certification course will demonstrate the fusion of both engineering, and biology streams for the progression of diseases, and the development of biological assay procedures which are tedious in nature that includes affordable diagnostic kits.

An Introduction to Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics certification course is based on chemical engineering subject. It is an elective study spread across four weeks. Learners can pursue a course completion certificate. For that, they need to complete the course, submit all assignments, and register for an end-term assessment by paying a nominal fee.

An Introduction to Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics certification syllabus employs a total of four learning modules. Learners can proceed to the next learning module after completing the topics covered previously. They will experiment with the mechanics that supply liquids within the human body through simulated tools. It covers topics such as rheology, pulsatile flows, morphology, solid and fluid mechanics.

An Introduction to Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics training is developed by IIT Guwahati. Students will learn under Dr Raghvendra Gupta, an associate professor of the Chemical Engineering department at IIT Guwahati. Moreover, biomedical companies such as Johnson and Johnson and GE Healthcare offer industry support to the course. 

Research communication and scientific communication is an essential skill if one wishes to pursue research and development. These allow you to put your ideas lucidly and enable others to understand your work. The objective of the Introduction to Professional Scientific Communication certification program is to get postgraduate students familiar with written and oral communication, along with ethics in research.

The Introduction to Professional Scientific Communication online training covers a wide range of concepts, both theoretical and practical. Topics like technical writing, hypothesis testing, reasoning, and structuring a scientific report are also included in the syllabus. Several books and references will also be made available to you once the course begins.

Introduction to Professional Scientific Communication online program is delivered by Swayam and designed by IIT Kanpur. It’s a postgraduate-level program meant for science and engineering students. You can also get your hands on the much-coveted Swayam certificate, which will help you pursue a career of your choice or conduct the research efficiently.

Biomedical nanotechnology certification is a course that is the brainchild of NPTEL and IIT Roorkee. This certificate course is taught for around 4 weeks, and its level is undergraduate or postgraduate with one credit point being offered. Biomedical nanotechnology is a fast-developing field that includes a huge collection of disciplines. Also, the application of nanotechnology is gaining a massive response in nearly all fields mainly in the healthcare sector. 

Biomedical nanotechnology training has been fruitful in the diagnosis, and therapy of cancer, tissue engineering, medical implants, and much more areas. This course is teaching that in the years to come, more developments in this sector are termed to flourish and help in the development of the latest life-saving treatment using medical technologies. So, with this course, every participant gains applicational knowledge of nanotechnology.

The Introduction to Biomedical Engineering Training Course is a 100% online course available on the Coursera platform that focuses on the core aspects of modern biomedical engineering such as the development of human-robotic interfaces and bionic prosthetics. This beginner-level course can be opted by engineering students of all backgrounds.

The Introduction to Biomedical Engineering Live Course will cover all topics beneficial for a modern biomedical engineer. The topics include electronics, control theory, microcontrollers (Arduino), and high-level programming (MATLAB). The course has flexible deadlines that can be scheduled according to the learner's preference.

At the end of the Introduction to Biomedical Engineering Certification Course, learners will receive a shareable certificate of completion. The biomedical sciences course is delivered through online video lectures, readings, and innovative practice exercises. The online course is developed by Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in partnership with the University College London.

Legal and Regulatory Issues in Biotechnology certification is an online programme of 4 weeks. This programme is issued by Swayam, in accordance with the curriculum being developed by IIT Kharagpur, and NPTEL. The main course aim is to identify the confluence of different factors like scientific, commercial, and others that are a driving force for the biotechnology industry. This certification course is elective in nature and caters to postgraduate, and undergraduate students.

Legal and Regulatory Issues in Biotechnology training helps students understand the core concepts of biotechnology that actually permits the students to learn to use them in their academic, corporate, or their careers in the government sector. Candidates will be understanding human resources with an elementary understanding of the law, and biotechnology contributing towards invention commercialization. 

Today, about 75% of the chemical manufacturing processes involve particulate matter. This includes the manufacturing of items like cement, pharmaceuticals, ceramic, pigments, and catalysts. The Unit Operations of Particulate Matter will provide end-to-end details of the important physical mechanisms that can make all the difference between failure and success.

The Unit Operations of Particulate Matter course deals with the Science and Technology of solid materials by taking a multidisciplinary approach. The training includes fields like Environmental Agricultural, Biomedical, Materials Science, Aerospace, Microbiology, Chemistry, Cell Science, and Pharmacy. The curriculum consists of ten modules that are taken up in a total of four weeks. 

For the Unit Operations of Particulate Matter programme, Shabina Khanam, who is an Associate Professor in IIT Roorkee’s Department of Chemical Engineering, conducts the lectures or video tutorials. This online certification course is free, and anyone can enrol in this course to gain knowledge about solid materials and their processes. 

Separation processes are an integral operation in many modern pharmaceutical and chemical plants. The Introduction to Process Modeling course will take you through such processes, both conventional and novel. The traditional processes include methods like distillation, adsorption, and absorption. These techniques are quite common, and the technologies associated with them are well developed.

The Introduction to Process Modeling certification syllabus will also cover newer processes such as membrane-based separation. These techniques are slowly gaining popularity in today’s modern industries. The later course modules will extensively focus on these new techniques, as well as topics like membrane filtration, gel layer controlling, and osmotic pressure.

The Introduction to Process Modeling online training is developed by IIT Kharagpur and delivered by the online learning platform: Swayam. The course features four assignments, and reading material is provided to you as a supplement to the video lectures. You can also opt for the final exam if you wish to earn a certificate. The course has been approved by AICTE and has a duration of four weeks.

The Equipment Design – Mechanical Aspects online programme spans four weeks, allowing you to cover core subject topics swiftly. It is an online course hosted by Swayam and approved by AICTE. As such, it receives industry support from all chemical process plants.

Equipment Design – Mechanical Aspects certification syllabus will primarily focus on important chemical plant equipment, including evaporators, absorbers, reactors, etc. You will understand all the equipment designs in-depth and from a mechanical POV.

Through weekly assignments and live classes conducted by an expert faculty, you will learn how different types of stress and strains impact mechanical designs in the Equipment Design – Mechanical Aspects course. Additional reference and reading materials will also be available to you for holistic learning.

Swayam provides an online forum as well to foster healthy discussions between students and course instructors. You can also clear your doubts if any. After successful course completion, you can apply for the proctored exam and earn the Equipment Design – Mechanical Aspects certificate.

Adiabatic Two-Phase Flow and Flow Boiling in Microchannel certification is a 4 weeks course that is offered on the Swayam platform jointly by NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur. The level of this programme is undergraduate or postgraduate that offers 1 credit point to all its participants. Catering to all engineering graduates, or masters, this course is prepared to offer to all the participants, a fundamental idea on multiphase flow, and boiling heat transfer flow catering in microchannels.

Adiabatic Two-Phase Flow and Flow Boiling in Microchannel training discusses the concepts like a multiphase flow in micro vis-a-vis macro domain, several patterns, and experimental techniques of analysis, the unique flow boiling heat transfer, and other influences of parameters operating for flow morphology. This course is otherwise free unless a certificate is asked for which is given only when some requisite criteria of assignments and exams are fulfilled by the participants.

GPS Surveying is a collective term for all the different operations involved in the collection of data using GPS. As GPS is becoming increasingly popular as the primary tool for collecting geospatial data, there is a great demand for knowledgeable GPS surveying personnel.

The objective of the GPS Surveying online course by Swayam is to make participants capable of carrying out GPS surveying, independently and confidently. As it is a field-oriented programme, students and professionals from any field, interested in GPS surveying, can attend this course. However, candidates should preferably have some basic understanding of physics and mathematics and a working knowledge of computers. 

The GPS Surveying programme comprises lectures on theoretical aspects, and video demonstrations of instruments and their working, field surveying, and data processing. Participants will have to solve an assignment at the end of each module. The type of questions may differ from MCQs and fill in the blanks to subjective questions, as relevant to the module.

The Scheduling Techniques in Projects certification course is a four-week-long online programme crafted by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. It is designed to provide in-depth knowledge of one of the significant aspects of project management, i.e., scheduling. You will study all the latest scheduling techniques that are available in the implementation or research stage.

The Scheduling Techniques in Projects training will make you adept at scheduling ranging from simplistic network methods to matrix-based techniques. You will learn many types of scheduling like information-driven, resource-driven, and logic-driven scheduling. Furthermore, you will explore complex concepts under these topics, including LoB (Line of Balance), CPM (Critical Path Method), RDM (Relationship Diagramming Methods), PDM (Precedence Diagramming Method), etc.

During the Scheduling Techniques in Projects programme, you will also learn other exciting scheduling techniques such as lean scheduling and 4D BIM. This online course is a Faculty Development Programme (FDP) that is approved by the AICTE. The course uses practical and hypothetical examples from industry along with tutorials to give a hands-on experience of learning.

Global Navigation Satellite Systems And Applications certification is a 4 weeks programme proposed by NPTEL and IIT Roorkee and is launched on the Swayam provider website. This is an elective course falling under the course category of civil engineering. The course is absolutely free to learn but the certification demands extra thousand rupees. 

Global Navigation Satellite Systems And Applications training provides a solid understanding of the DEMs which are the digital elevation models, and their applications in earth sciences, and civil engineering. Later on, in the course curriculum, the candidates can identify their source, derivatives, generation techniques, errors, and limitations of the DEMs. The industry support for this certification course is offered by some Geoinformatics companies, like NIIT, Leica Geoinformatics, ESRI India, MapmyIndia, ISRO, and more.

Reinforced Concrete Road Bridges certification is an elective course that is arranged by the premier institutions like NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur but is presented on Swayam’s platform. This certification course does not offer any kind of hard copy certificates but does give electronic ones, and gives a chance for e-verification. This course usually has a focuses on the building of road bridges for the system of road transportation. 

Reinforced Concrete Road Bridges training for students will provide an opportunity to learn about the concrete bridges made using slabs in the 8-12m range. It will also teach regarding T beam bridges that cover 15-25m range. Generally, the course gets introduced with the design considerations that introduce IRC codes, and how the building of bridges can be curated in a systematic way. The civil engineering students do get a lot from this course as the end certification is supported by the design, and construction businesses. 

The VLSI Design using Verilog course by National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology, Haridwar has been minutely designed & is wholly intended for imparting training to the candidates on how to utilise intellectual property (IP) cores for VLSI. The various practical applications and design & verification methodologies are enlisted & explained in great detail to ensure clear understanding in the candidates. 

The course content has been specifically designed to cater to the emerging trends for upskilled manpower. Through this course, candidates get to utilise & explore the ModelSim software to their full potential as all the intricate functions, options & processes are explained in a quite simple way. The various methods of usage & implementations of Verilog (programming language) are thoroughly explained as a part of the course. Structural modelling, Behavioural modelling, Gate level modelling & various other kinds of modelling are outlined to be covered in a very self-explanatory manner to the candidates. Overview of VLSI is also given to the candidates during the course commencement to lay a great foundation further.

The study of plant life and development is covered in the biological field of plant biology. This branch of biology, known as botany, encompasses a wide range of scientific fields that research plants. Understanding Plants - Part II: Fundamentals of Plant Biology online certification is created by Tel Aviv University (TAU) - Israel's largest institution of higher learning and taught by  Professor Daniel Chamovitz Ph.D., President, the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, which is offered by Coursera.

Understanding Plants - Part II: Fundamentals of Plant Biology online classes comprises 5 hours of video-based lectures which are geared toward candidates interested in learning the fundamentals of plant biology. Understanding Plants - Part II: Fundamentals of Plant Biology online course discusses topics like plant structure, plant organ, and plant cells and explain the process of the growth and development of the plant as well as discusses the process of sugar synthesis, photosynthesis and explains how plants convert carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and water from the soil into oxygen.

Belonging to the multidisciplinary category, the Remote Sensing of Leaf Area Index and Primary Productivity certification has a course duration of a month. This course is the responsibility of the institutes of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur together who have submitted this course for being conducted on the platform of Swayam. This course is free, and also online which exhibits the importance of leaf area index in ecological, physiological, and climatological studies.

The LAI or the Leaf Area Index is nothing but a response parameter catering to the process of photosynthesis that is directly related to light perception. The Remote Sensing of Leaf Area Index and Primary Productivity training gives a deep understanding of the primary productivity of the Leaf Area Index. This certification also makes it possible for the participants to know that LAI is nothing but a biophysical variable that is dimensionless and is calculated by taking into account the unit ground surface area. This programme mainly is thought of for engineering, and science students or professionals.