Material science courses can help you learn about the properties of materials, material selection, nanotechnology, and the principles of thermodynamics. You can build skills in analyzing material behavior, conducting experiments, and applying statistical methods to interpret data. Many courses introduce tools such as scanning electron microscopes, X-ray diffraction, and software for modeling material properties, that support practical applications in industries like aerospace, electronics, and biomedical engineering.

IBM
Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Systems Development Life Cycle, Prompt Patterns, Software Development Life Cycle, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Modeling, Software Architecture, Computer Vision, LangChain, Restful API, Responsive Web Design, Generative AI, Responsible AI, IBM Cloud, Data Ethics, AI Workflows, Python Programming, Software Development, Machine Learning, Data Science
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Beginner · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: SQL, Data Cleansing, Jupyter, Data Literacy, Data Mining, Data Manipulation, Data Preprocessing, Data Wrangling, R (Software), Business Analysis, Model Deployment, Database Management, Relational Databases, Stored Procedure, R Programming, Data Science, Data Processing, Big Data, GitHub, Python Programming
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Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Johns Hopkins University
Skills you'll gain: Bioinformatics, Data Structures, Code Reusability, Jupyter, Python Programming, Programming Principles, Scripting, File I/O, Computational Logic, Package and Software Management, Computer Programming, Data Manipulation
Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

DeepLearning.AI
Skills you'll gain: Descriptive Statistics, Bayesian Statistics, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Probability & Statistics, Sampling (Statistics), Statistical Methods, Probability Distribution, Linear Algebra, Statistical Inference, Model Optimization, Machine Learning Methods, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Probability, Calculus, Dimensionality Reduction, Applied Machine Learning, Mathematical Software, Data Transformation, Machine Learning
Intermediate · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

University of Colorado System
Skills you'll gain: Tidyverse (R Package), Clinical Data Management, Extract, Transform, Load, Data Modeling, Clinical Research, R (Software), Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA) Compliance, Medical Privacy, Data Manipulation, Predictive Modeling, Database Design, Data Mapping, Clinical Informatics, Google Cloud Platform, Data Quality, Natural Language Processing, grep, Informatics, Text Mining, R Programming
Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Georgia Institute of Technology
Skills you'll gain: Materials science, Informatics, Data Science, Data Mining, Data Integration, Data Infrastructure, Data Sharing, Manufacturing Processes, Process Engineering, Structural Analysis, Collaborative Software, Statistics
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Dashboard Creation, Dashboard, Web Scraping, Data Analysis, Data Presentation, Plot (Graphics), Data Visualization Software, Graphing, Pandas (Python Package), Data Capture, Data Science, Data Wrangling, Jupyter, Data Manipulation, Python Programming, Data Collection
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Dashboard Creation, Dashboard, Web Scraping, SQL, Descriptive Statistics, Data Visualization, Statistical Analysis, Jupyter, Data Presentation, Probability Distribution, R (Software), Statistics, Statistical Methods, Data Science, Database Management, Relational Databases, R Programming, Python Programming, NumPy, Data Analysis
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Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Duke University
Skills you'll gain: Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Physical Science, Systems Of Measurement, Scientific Methods, Mathematical Modeling
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

University of Michigan
Skills you'll gain: Matplotlib, Network Analysis, Social Network Analysis, Feature Engineering, Data Visualization, Pandas (Python Package), Plot (Graphics), Data Visualization Software, Interactive Data Visualization, Model Evaluation, Applied Machine Learning, Supervised Learning, Infographics, Text Mining, Network Model, Data Manipulation, NumPy, Data Preprocessing, Natural Language Processing, Python Programming
Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

University of Miami
Skills you'll gain: Manufacturing Processes, Materials science, Automation, Manufacturing and Production, Emerging Technologies, Biomedical Technology, Prototyping
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks
Johns Hopkins University
Skills you'll gain: Shiny (R Package), Rmarkdown, Exploratory Data Analysis, Model Evaluation, R (Software), Regression Analysis, Leaflet (Software), Version Control, Statistical Analysis, R Programming, Data Manipulation, Data Cleansing, Data Science, Statistical Inference, Predictive Modeling, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Data Wrangling, Data Visualization, Machine Learning, GitHub
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months