Ready to revolutionize transportation systems and discover how disruptive innovations are reshaping the mobility sector? In this immersive five-day course, you will learn to analyze and optimize transportation systems using the latest research from MIT and beyond, delving into demand and network modelling, artificial intelligence, simulation, optimization and control. These methods are explored alongside selected future solutions, with a focus on user-centric new smart mobility services , automated and AI-driven vehicles and alternative energy vectors for decarbonizing transportation. Through real-world case studies, professionals from transport service providers, urban and mobility planning, automotive, and transportation sectors can gain actionable insights to address current and future transportation challenges.
The three-day course explores the fundamentals and latest innovations in the study of friction, wear, lubrication, and design of tribological systems. Participants will acquire the skills needed to improve the reliability and durability of tribological systems. Learners will dive deep into fundamentals, trends, strategies, and modern methodologies needed to design the next generation tribological systems.
This course may be taken individually or as part of the Professional Certificate Program in Design & Manufacturing.
Join the cutting-edge of intelligent material design and discover how to integrate advanced technologies to drive the development of next-generation smart materials. In this condensed five-day course, you will participate in hands-on clinics and labs designed to help you optimize your smart material design and manufacturing through the use of large-scale computational modeling, artificial intelligence, material informatics, and machine learning.
Ready to turn your data and technical knowledge into meaningful insights that engage and persuade stakeholders? In this four-day course, you’ll hone your communication skills in four essential areas: public speaking, critical thinking, visual persuasion, and audience adaptation. A unique feature of this program is that all participants will meet one-on-one diagnostic meetings with the course instructor. Supplemented with these one-on-one sessions, and students participating in discussions and hands-on activities, you’ll master actionable strategies for quantifying your conversations and moving your projects and organization forward.
Join leading MIT faculty to explore safety and regulatory issues of operating and maintaining planned reactors in the U.S. and other countries. Alongside a group of accomplished peers, you’ll assess current developments in nuclear plant safety, such as risk-informed operations, extended life operation, high-performance fuel, spent fuel storage management, PWR and BWR materials issues, cybersecurity, operating reactor safety and licensing, and seismic safety.
Become a stronger leader of innovation and design-thinking in your workplace. Join us for a highly interactive and engaging course that will teach you powerful new approaches for creating innovative solutions, crafting vision that gets buy-in, and developing solutions that people love. You'll learn our proven 10-Step Design Process and gain the strategies and hands-on experience to make your mark as a leader of innovation. Don't miss this opportunity to take your leadership capabilities to the next level.
Master a repertoire of techniques for addressing challenges that commonly arise within engineering research groups, teaching staff, and other technical academic environments. In this two-day, in-person course, designed for senior and junior faculty, department heads, and higher education administrators involved in engineering and the sciences, you will acquire proven leadership strategies and techniques aimed at boosting your team’s effectiveness and productivity.
Master the interpersonal, communication, and management strategies you need to increase your impact and become an effective leader in today’s technical environments. Over the course of five days, you’ll learn to lead and motivate teams that produce powerful results by mastering proven techniques for building effective technical teams, managing interpersonal conflict, and creating and communicating a shared vision that drives improved outcomes.
Preparing for a crisis is not a luxury; it is a necessity. Constant cyber-attacks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and regulatory requirements have proven this. You know the odds are high that your company will suffer, or has experienced, a disaster or crisis. You cannot say you weren't ready; today's extreme public and government scrutiny demand that you should have been prepared. MIT's Crisis Management & Business Resiliency course will help prepare you for the inevitable.
Transform your organization's engineering capabilities with comprehensive AI implementation spanning the complete design-to-deployment pipeline, from LLM-driven parametric design through advanced manufacturing optimization, computer vision quality control, and real-world deployment strategies. In this intensive hands-on course, you'll join accomplished global peers to master deployable AI workflows, create neural surrogates for expensive simulations, implement MLOps practices with regulatory compliance, and build complete integrated systems using open-source tools – leaving with working template libraries and custom components ready for immediate organizational deployment.