Online Engineering & Physical Science Courses
Engineering and Physical Science are two essential fields of study that help us better understand the universe we live in. The Engineering and Physical Science courses in our catalog offer a wide range of learning opportunities for beginners and professionals working in the field already. These courses have been designed and hand-selected to offer the greatest advantage to those seeking to deepen the personal understanding of such fields as CAD design, controller systems programming, distribution networks, and even advanced methods for observing our solar system. Our catalog includes a range of free and premium courses alike and makes it easy to start learning today!
Physical Science and Engineering
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Physical Science and Engineering
Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities
How can we shape urban development towards sustainable and prosperous futures?
This course will explore sustainable cities as engines for greening the economy. We place cities in the context of sustainable urban transformation and climate change. Sustainable urban transformation refers to structural transformation processes – multi-dimensional and radical change – that can effectively direct urban development
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Physical Science and Engineering
Imagery, Automation, and Applications
Welcome to the last course of the specialization (unless your continuing on to the capstone project, of course!).
Using the knowledge you’ve learned about ArcGIS, complete technical tasks such raster calculations and suitability analysis. In this class you will become comfortable with spatial analysis and applications within GIS during four week-long modules:Week 1: You’ll learn
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Physical Science and Engineering
Intelligent Machining
Manufacturers are increasingly utilizing machine tools that are self-aware – they perceive their own states and the state of the surrounding environment – and are able to make decisions related to machine activity processes. This is called intelligent machining, and through this course students will receive a primer on its background, tools and related terminology.
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Physical Science and Engineering
Interfacing with the Arduino
Arduino senses the environment by receiving inputs from add-on devices such as sensors, and can control the world around it by adjusting lights, motors, and other actuators. In this class you will learn how and when to use the different types of sensors and how to connect them to the Arduino. Since the external world
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Physical Science and Engineering
Interfacing with the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi uses a variety of input/output devices based on protocols such as HDMI, USB, and Ethernet to communicate with the outside world. In this class you will learn how to use these protocols with other external devices (sensors, motors, GPS, orientation, LCD screens etc.) to get your IoT device to interact with the
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Physical Science and Engineering
Internet of Things Capstone V2: Build a Mobile Surveillance System
In the Capstone project for the Internet of Things specialization, you will design and build your own system that uses at least 2 sensors, at least 1 communication protocol and at least 1 actuator. You will have a chance to revisit and apply what you have learned in our courses to achieve a robust, practical
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Physical Science and Engineering
Internet of Things Capstone: Build a Mobile Surveillance System
In the Capstone project for the Internet of Things specialization, you will design and build your own system that uses at least 2 sensors, at least 1 communication protocol and at least 1 actuator. You will have a chance to revisit and apply what you have learned in our courses to achieve a robust, practical
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Physical Science and Engineering
Internet of Things V2: DragonBoard⢠bring up and community ecosystem
Physical Science and EngineeringInternet of Things V2: DragonBoard⢠bring up and community ecosystem
Do you want to develop skills to prototype embedded products using state-of-the-art technologies? In this course you will build a hardware and software development environment to guide your journey through the Internet of Things specialization courses. We will use the DragonBoardâ„¢ 410c single board computer (SBC).
This is the first in a series of courses
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Physical Science and Engineering
Internet of Things V2: Setting up and Using Cloud Services
Have you wondered what exactly AWS is and why is it important? Do you want to make informed design decisions about which services to use? Do you want to gain expertise to leverage the cloud for your own projects?
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Physical Science and Engineering
Internet of Things: How did we get here?
It is hard to imagine life without your Smartphone – you have come to rely on it so much – for your work; to stay in touch with family and friends; to capture and share those special moments; to find your way around in a new neighborhood. Did you ever wonder how and when all
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Physical Science and Engineering
Internet of Things: Multimedia Technologies
Content is an eminent example of the features that contributed to the success of wireless Internet. Mobile platforms such as the Snapdragonâ„¢ processor have special hardware and software capabilities to make acquisition, processing and rendering of multimedia content efficient and cost-effective.
In this course, you will learn the principles of video and audio codecs used
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Physical Science and Engineering
Internet of Things: Sensing and Actuation From Devices
Have you wondered how information from physical devices in the real world gets communicated to Smartphone processors? Do you want to make informed design decisions about sampling frequencies and bit-width requirements for various kinds of sensors? Do you want to gain expertise to affect the real world with actuators such as stepper motors, LEDs
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Physical Science and Engineering
Internet of Things: Setting Up Your DragonBoard⢠Development Platform
Physical Science and EngineeringInternet of Things: Setting Up Your DragonBoard⢠Development Platform
Do you want to develop skills to prototype mobile-enabled products using state-of-the-art technologies? In this course you will build a hardware and software development environment to guide your journey through the Internet of Things specialization courses. We will use the DragonBoardâ„¢ 410c single board computer (SBC).
This is the first in a series of courses
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Physical Science and Engineering
Intro to Acoustics (Part 1)
This course introduces acoustics by using the concept of impedance. The course starts with vibrations and waves, demonstrating how vibration can be envisaged as a kind of wave, mathematically and physically. They are realized by one-dimensional examples, which provide mathematically simplest but clear enough physical insights. Then the part 1 ends with explaining waves on
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Physical Science and Engineering
Intro to Digital Manufacturing with Autodesk Fusion 360
The manufacturing industry is making a digital transformation, allowing companies to customize production through advances in machine learning, sustainable design, generative design, and collaboration, with integrated design and manufacturing processes. This course introduces innovations in CAD and digital manufacturing, speaking to the rapid changes taking place that are forever transforming the future of making.
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Physical Science and Engineering
Introduction into General Theory of Relativity
General Theory of Relativity or the theory of relativistic gravitation is the one which describes black holes, gravitational waves and expanding Universe. The goal of the course is to introduce you into this theory. The introduction is based on the consideration of many practical generic examples in various scopes of the General Relativity. After the
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Physical Science and Engineering
Introduction to Acoustics (Part 2)
Learners might have learned the basic concepts of the acoustics from the ‘Introduction to Acoustics (Part 1).’ Now it is time to apply to the real situation and develop their own acoustical application. Learners will analyze the radiation, scattering, and diffraction phenomenon with the Kirchhoff –Helmholtz Equation. Then learners will design their own reverberation room
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Physical Science and Engineering
Introduction to Chemistry: Reactions and Ratios
This is an introductory course for students with limited background in chemistry; basic concepts involved in chemical reactions, stoichiometry, the periodic table, periodic trends, nomenclature, and chemical problem solving will be emphasized with the goal of preparing students for further study in chemistry as needed for many science, health, and policy professions..
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Physical Science and Engineering
Introduction to Chemistry: Structures and Solutions
This is an introductory course for students with limited background in chemistry; basic concepts such as atomic and molecular structure, solutions, phases of matter, and quantitative problem solving will be emphasized with the goal of preparing students for further study in chemistry.
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Physical Science and Engineering
Introduction to Embedded Systems Software and Development Environments
Physical Science and EngineeringIntroduction to Embedded Systems Software and Development Environments
Welcome to the Introduction to Embedded Systems Software and Development Environments. This course is focused on giving you real world coding experience and hands on project work with ARM based Microcontrollers. You will learn how to implement software configuration management and develop embedded software applications. Course assignments include creating a build system using the GNU
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Physical Science and Engineering
Introduction to Engineering Mechanics
This course is an introduction to learning and applying the principles required to solve engineering mechanics problems. Concepts will be applied in this course from previous courses you have taken in basic math and physics. The course addresses the modeling and analysis of static equilibrium problems with an emphasis on real world
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Physical Science and Engineering
Introduction to Faecal Sludge Management
Do you want learn how to apply concepts of sustainable faecal sludge management (FSM) on a city-wide scale? This course starts with an overview of what faecal sludge is and an introduces you to the engineering fundamentals and required information for the design and selection of technologies. Sanitation solutions are prone to failure if
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Physical Science and Engineering
Introduction to FPGA Design for Embedded Systems
Programmable Logic has become more and more common as a core technology used to build electronic systems. By integrating soft-core or hardcore processors, these devices have become complete systems on a chip, steadily displacing general purpose processors and ASICs. In particular, high performance systems are now almost always implemented with FPGAs.
This course
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Physical Science and Engineering
Introduction to High-Throughput Materials Development
This course is an introduction to high-throughput experimental methods that accelerate the discovery and development of new materials.
It is well recognized that the discovery of new materials is the key to solving many technological problems faced by industry and society. These problems include energy production and utilization, carbon capture, tissue engineering, and sustainable materials
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Physical Science and Engineering
Introduction to Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage
It is well known that water treatment at the household level can lead to dramatic improvements in drinking water quality. But does Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (HWTS) also have global relevance? What are the potential treatment solutions and how do they function? Is there a standard strategy for successful HWTS implementation, or can
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Physical Science and Engineering
Introduction to Indoor Air Quality
Course Overview: https://youtu.be/LLVb4FOn4uU
This course provides a basic knowledge of an emerging area – Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in buildings. Learners will realize the importance of maintaining proper IAQ.Characteristics associated with indoor air contaminants (IAC) are demonstrated, such as
• Particulate matters (PM2.5, PM10)
• Radon
• Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
• Asbestos
• Bio-aerosols, and moreSafe exposure levels, resulting health effects, measurement techniques,
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Physical Science and Engineering
Introduction to Molecular Spectroscopy
The course introduces the three key spectroscopic methods used by chemists and biochemists to analyse the molecular and electronic structure of atoms and molecules. These are UV/Visible , Infra-red (IR) and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopies. The content is presented using short focussed and interactive screencast presentations accompanied by formative quizzes to probe understanding of
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Physical Science and Engineering
Introduction to Physical Chemistry
Chemical reactions underpin the production of pretty much everything in our modern world. But, what is the driving force behind reactions? Why do some reactions occur over geological time scales whilst others are so fast that we need femtosecond-pulsed lasers to study them? Ultimately, what is going on at the atomic level?
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Physical Science and Engineering
Introduction to Power Electronics
This course introduces the basic concepts of switched-mode converter circuits for controlling and converting electrical power with high efficiency. Principles of converter circuit analysis are introduced, and are developed for finding the steady state voltages, current, and efficiency of power converters. Assignments include simulation of a dc-dc converter, analysis of an inverting dc-dc converter, and
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Physical Science and Engineering
Introduction to Public Health Engineering in Humanitarian Contexts
The world is facing unprecedented humanitarian needs. Today’s humanitarian crisis tend to be greater in number, often in urban settings, longer in duration and broader in regional impact. They generate human sufferings on a greater scale, disrupt essential services, such as water supply or sanitation and put health of large population at risk. Engineers and
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Physical Science and Engineering
Introduction to Satellite Communications
How is a satellite built? How do they fly? How do they communicate and how does the network operate? You will get all the answers in this course from teachers and researchers from three schools associated with Institut Mines-Télécom.
The course is made of : teaching videos, equipment demonstrations and simulation programs. They will guide you
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Physical Science and Engineering
Introduction to solar cells
How do solar cells work, why do we need, and how can we measure their efficiency? These are just some of the questions Introduction to solar cells tackles. Whether you are looking for general insight in this green technology or your ambition is to pursue a career in solar, “Introduction to Solar Cells†is an
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Physical Science and Engineering
Introduction to Sustainability
This course introduces the academic approach of Sustainability and explores how today’s human societies can endure in the face of global change, ecosystem degradation and resource limitations. The course focuses on key knowledge areas of sustainability theory and practice, including population, ecosystems, global change, energy, agriculture, water, environmental economics and policy, ethics, and cultural history.
This
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