Motors are becoming better and cheaper—opening profitable new applications across industries. In this course for engineers and product designers, you will learn to assess and design electric motors, generators, and drive systems, with emphasis on electric drives, including traction drives and drive motors. You will also explore how modern embedded controllers enable command through digital computation, breathing life into electric machines and motion control applications. 

Enhance your ability to analyze the financial risks and opportunities of today's real estate marketplace by leveraging quantitative analytics techniques taught in popular MIT graduate courses. Over the course of two accelerated days, you’ll master common real estate financial analysis methods, acquire new approaches for financial modeling, and assess cutting-edge quantitative tools for managing portfolio risk. 

Want to get ahead in real estate finance? Get back to the basics with MIT. In this critically important two-day course, you’ll join accomplished global peers to enhance your foundational knowledge of the crucial factors shaping real estate finance today. Through real-world case studies, you’ll explore the financial infrastructures that underpin real estate development and improve your ability to make smart decisions related to financial feasibility.

Ready to face the revolutions in transportation systems and discover how disruptive innovations are reshaping the mobility sector? In this immersive five-day course, you will learn to model, 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. Innovative methods are explored for emerging systems that are still in an early stage of development and deployment, such as user-centric new smart mobility services, automated and AI-driven vehicles and alternative energy vectors for decarbonizing transportation. Through real-world case studies, transportation researchers and professionals from urban and mobility organizations, the automotive industry, logistics companies, and other transportation sectors can gain actionable insights to address current and future transportation challenges.

The three-and-a-half-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.

What would Artificial General Intelligence look like if its first breakthrough were not in language, but in the invention of matter? Join the frontier of superintelligence applied to agentic materials discovery. In this condensed four-day course, you will move beyond static design to master autonomous AI workflows. Through hands-on clinics, you will build multi-agent systems that do not merely predict material properties, but reason, plan, and invent next-generation smart materials - integrating large-scale computational modeling with generative AI to solve complex engineering challenges across scales, from atoms to systems, from concept to physical realization.

Ready to turn your data and technical knowledge into meaningful insights that engage and persuade stakeholders? In this 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.

Acquire the fundamental machine learning expertise you need to immediately implement new strategies for driving value in your organization. This foundational course covers essential concepts and methods in machine learning, providing the basic building blocks required to solve real tasks. You’ll also gain a deeper understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of learning algorithms, and assess which types of methods are likely to be useful for a given class of problems.