Online Engineering And Architecture Courses & Certifications

Principles of Vibration Control certification is an elective course that is designed to be hosted for 4 weeks. The course is structured by NPTEL and IIT Kanpur and is hosted by Swayam’s platform. This certification course is divided into 4 modules, 4 assignments, and one single proctored exam that needs to be completed for seeking the completion certification. 

Principles of Vibration Control training explains that vibration is not desirable in almost any different engineering system, and that vibration has certain bad effects like severe resonance damage,  fatigue failure, loss of accuracy, sensitive system or instrument malfunctioning, and more. This course is proven to give a small brief of the different ways in which vibration of systems can be controlled. Also, when candidates have received the course certificate, it is valued in industries like oil, manufacturing, and space engineering.

The Business of Mining program covers the mining process and its varying fundamentals, from the exploration to closure of such operations. This introductory course proceeds at the student’s pace. Learners can access the video materials provided upon registration and review lessons to better understand the curriculum.

The duration of this online program is for four weeks. The Business of Mining certification syllabus lends a comprehensive learning perspective, starting from discovering mineral deposits to extraction and rehabilitation. It completes the study of mine’s life cycle. Students get to investigate the economic forces that influence the conditions and decisions relating to the mining industry.

The Business of Mining online course recently received an award in the Interactive Media Awards of the USA for the Best in Class University category. Offered by Curtin University, associate professors Bryan Maybee and Eric Lilford teach the curriculum. They are experts in Chemical Engineering, Energy, Minerals, and mines. What’s more? Students can verify their achievement with a certificate upon paying the necessary fee.

Corrosion science explores the process of corrosion in metallic and non-metallic structures. The Cathodic Protection Engineering online programme attempts to dig deeper and explain some essential means of corrosion control in buried metallic structures. This is a free-to-learn curriculum by Swayam and IIT Bombay, accredited by AICTE.

Furthermore, the Cathodic Protection Engineering certification belongs to the 'Metallurgy and Material science and Mining Engineering' and 'Materials Joining' categories. If you are interested in learning this course, you should also note that this is a short-term FDP programme that runs for just four weeks.

This programme is suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates, and industry professionals. Aspirants will have to submit four assignments during the course tenure, which will help their understanding and progress.

What's more, after finishing the Cathodic Protection Engineering program, you will also get a chance to obtain a verified digital certificate offered by Swayam and NPTEL. This requires you to clear a proctored exam and fulfill other criteria to achieve certification.

Elementary Stereology for Quantitative Metallography certification is a 4 weeks programme that is conducted by NPTEL and IIT Madras on Swayam’s provider platform. This elective course’s category is Materials Characterization, Metallurgy, and Material science & Mining Engineering which is ideal for students of both undergraduate and postgraduate levels of study.

Quantitative metallography or stereology is nothing but the measurements of certain features like grain size, and second phase spatial distribution catering to observations conducted on 2-D sections. So basically stereology is connected with geometric probability where a small sample size of the material is kept under observation for deriving the microstructural characteristic related to the bulk of that particular material. Elementary Stereology for Quantitative Metallography training gives information on all the above topics. Getting study materials for this course is free, but obtaining certificates are chargeable, and based on students attending proctored exams.

Fundamentals of electronic device fabrication certification is a 4 weeks course that is 100% online, conducted on the platform of Swayam. The design, and thought behind this course are by NPTEL and IIT Madras. The semiconductor industry uses different practices of fabrication that are used there, and this course exactly helps in understanding those practices along with their future opportunities, and challenges.

Basically, the Fundamentals of electronic device fabrication training caters to the undergraduate, and postgraduate students who may belong to separate backgrounds of  Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Materials Science, Metallurgy, Physics, and Chemistry. The certification course even provides an overview of the entire integrated circuit fabrication that uses the different practices and challenges for continuing to satisfy the law of Moore.

Welding of Advanced High Strength Steels for Automotive Applications certification is a 4 weeks small course that is developed under the joint association of NPTEL and IIT Madras, and they have chosen Swayam as their partner for providing the course. With this certification course, candidates will understand where the advanced high strength steel or AHSS is used, and why its use is increasingly rising in the automotive industry. The reasons identified will be enhanced strength-ductility, and crash energy management that will cause the building of safer, and greener vehicles.

Welding of Advanced High Strength Steels for Automotive Applications training will be ultimately responsible for teaching the weldability of AHSS. The certificate in this course is unique as it has the entire break up of marks that will be secured in the examination, and the assignments by the applicants. It will also be useful for seeking support from automotive manufacturers. Another important aspect is that learning up the content is free but the certificate is not.

The Structural Analysis of Nanomaterials certification is a 4 weeks course that gets placed under the metallurgy category and is conducted on Swayam by the two institutions which are NPTEL and IIT Roorkee. This course on nanomaterials is an important part of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology which mainly deals with crystal structure studies, and also their defects. 

For the Structural Analysis of Nanomaterials training, candidates must have knowledge that is detailed in nature regarding the atomic/molecular structure to the crystal structure. This course has the main goal that deals with making a nanomaterial analysis that aims at investigating the relationship between structure, and property so that relevant suggestions can be incorporated in finding the new properties and improving the materials. Candidates do get to enrol in the course for free but certificates will require registering with Rs. 1,000 and attending a proctored final test.

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.

Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory certification is a one-month online course in the category of civil engineering. This online certification course is available on Swayam but is the design of two institutions namely NPTEL and IIT Bombay. The end certificate also possesses the logos of the aforesaid institutions for proving its authenticity factor. With this course, participants will be able to focus on learning the different tests used for testing soils.

Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory training is for performing experiments of testing soils that are presented with a small introduction that covers all the important details, and aspects of the conducted experiments. It also showcases the purpose, and theory along with the explanation of what apparatus, specimen calculations, or procedure is required to perform a certain experiment. This course easily allows the applicants to conduct experiments and then compare the results of these. All in all, the course certificate gets accepted in multinational companies like Larsen & Turbo, Simplex Infrastructure, and more.

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.