Online Engineering and Technology Courses

They are relevant both to students supplementing their studies and to engineers who need additional knowledge for a particular task, project, or area of work.

Who Are These Courses For?

Engineering students can use individual courses when a university subject does not provide enough practice with the software, calculations, or technical methods required for an assignment or project. A course can also be useful when a student needs to combine several areas of engineering in one project.

Working engineers may need training when a new project requires software, analysis methods, or technical knowledge outside their usual responsibilities. In this case, a focused course can address the missing part without repeating subjects the engineer already knows.

How Engineering Fields Overlap

Engineering work often crosses the boundaries between individual disciplines. Designing a mechanical component, for example, can involve CAD, manufacturing requirements, structural analysis, and material selection rather than mechanical design alone.

The same applies to automated equipment. Mechanical components, electrical systems, sensors, control algorithms, and software may all form part of one project, so knowledge from mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, control engineering, and robotics can be combined.

Simulation also connects several areas. A motor model may involve electrical engineering and control theory, while a thermal or structural simulation may require knowledge of the physical system as well as the numerical method and software used to analyse it.

This overlap is useful when choosing additional training: the most relevant course is not always in the same field as a person's current specialization. A mechanical engineer working on automated machinery, for example, may need control engineering or robotics rather than another general mechanical engineering course.