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. 

Do you have the strategies and knowledge you need to maintain a competitive edge in the increasingly global real estate market? In this intensive two-day course, designed for individuals who deal with global financial markets and real estate investments, you’ll assess current industry trends, acquire proven tools and frameworks for building portfolios and minimizing risk in global contexts, and identify opportunities for investments around the world.

Explore the latest strategies for stabilizing biotherapeutics, with a focus on solving mechanisms of instability. Designed for scientists and engineers working in biopharmaceutical discovery, development, and manufacturing, this dynamic four-day course explores various strategies for overcoming challenges related to the stability, solubility, and viscosity of biotherapeutics. There is a focus on a fundamental mechanistic understanding of protein stability, providing the basis for formulating and stabilizing biopharmaceuticals. The course will also present advances in emerging areas, such as cell and gene therapy as well as machine learning.

Delve into the latest in biological and biochemical technology, with an emphasis on biological systems with industrial practices. The longest-running course in the MIT Professional Education catalog, this popular program reviews fundamentals and provides an up-to-date account of current industry knowledge. Alongside accomplished peers, you’ll acquire the tools you need to improve existing biological manufacturing systems or design new ones for downstream processes. 

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.

Explore the innovative biotechnology strategies that are improving processes in biological industries around the world. Over the course of five days, you’ll acquire the tools and frameworks you need to enhance your organization’s downstream process—and drive increased value. Through highly interactive lectures and activities, you’ll examine traditional unit operations, as well as new concepts and emerging technologies, which offer benefits to biochemical product recovery. 

Anticipate where your industry is headed—and secure a competitive advantage—by mastering the latest discrete choice models and techniques. In this five-day course, you’ll work with leading MIT experts to discover how to apply discrete choice techniques; analyze challenges related to data collection, model formulation, estimation, testing, and forecasting; and assess online applications that drive optimization and personalization of results.

Acquire the skills you need to build advanced computer vision applications featuring innovative developments in neural network research. Designed for engineers, scientists, and professionals in healthcare, government, retail, media, security, and automotive manufacturing, this immersive course explores the cutting edge of technological research in a field that is poised to transform the world—and offers the strategies you need to capitalize on the latest advancements.

Enhance your knowledge of the quantitative and computational realms of data science through the lens of regression analysis. Over the course of five days, you’ll learn to maximize the power of your advanced computing methods and identify strategies for fitting your data to models. Alongside global peers, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the underlying mathematical models that form the basis of data science—and learn which models work best in different circumstances.