1.

Ten Things Every Engineer Should Know About Materials Science

2. Dynamic Systems & Controls
3. Electronic Systems and Digital Electronics
4. Electronic Measurements B (UNINETTUNO)
5. Electronic Measurements A (UNINETTUNO)
6. Basic Circuit Theory A (UNINETTUNO)
7. Basic Circuit Theory B (UNINETTUNO)
8. Measurement & Experimentation Laboratory
9. Mechatronics (saylor.org)
10. Materials and Materials Processing (saylor.org)
11. Materials and Materials Processing (saylor.org)(edx)
12. Linear Circuits (Coursera)
13. 04832430X: Electronic Circuits (edX)
14. MOS Transistors (Coursera)
15. Introduction to Electronics (Coursera)
16. ELEC1200.1x: A System View of Communications: From Signals to Packets (Part
1) (edX)
17. Electrify: An Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Engineering (FutureLearn)
18. VLSI CAD: Logic to Layout (Coursera)
19. Concepts in Nanotechnology (Canvas.net)
20. Nanotechnology: The Basics (Coursera)
21. Solar: Solar Cells, Fuel Cells and Batteries (Stanford Online)

A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation
and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings,
and problem sets, MOOCs provide interactive user forums that help build a community for
students, professors, and teaching assistants .MOOCs are a recent development in distance
education which began to emerge in 2012. Early MOOCs often emphasized open access features,
such as connectivism and open licensing of content, structure and learning goals, to promote the
reuse and remixing of resources. Some later MOOCs use closed licenses for their course
materials while maintaining free access for students.

COURSERA

Coursera
is a for-profit educational technology company founded by
computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller from Stanford
University that offers massive open online courses (MOOCs). Coursera works
with universities to make some of their courses available online, and offers
courses in physics, engineering, humanities, medicine, biology, social
sciences, mathematics, business, computer science, and other subjects.
Coursera has an official mobile app for iOS and Android. As of October 2014,
Coursera has 10 million users in 839 courses from 114 institutions.
EDX
EdX is a massive open online course (MOOC) provider and online learning platform. It hosts
online university-level courses in a wide range of disciplines to a worldwide audience, some at

no charge. It also conducts research into learning based on how people use its platform. EdX
differs from other MOOC platforms, such Coursera and Udacity, in that it is nonprofit and runs
on an open-source software platform.EdX was founded by the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and Harvard University in May 2012. There are currently more than 60 schools,
nonprofits, corporations, and international organizations that offer or plan to offer courses on the
edX website. As of 22 October 2014, edX has more than 3 million users taking over 300 courses
online.
Saylor.org
The Saylor Foundation is a non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, DC. It was
established in 1999 by its sole trustee, Michael J. Saylor, who is Chairman, CEO, and President
of the business intelligence company MicroStrategy. Since 2008, the focus of the foundation has
been its Free Education Initiative which has led to the creation of 241 courses representing 10 of
the highest enrollment majors in the US. The Saylor Foundation is known for its emphasis on
finding, vetting, and assembling openly available texts and resources into courses resembling
those of a traditional brick and mortar institution which are then peer-reviewed before being
published. The foundation also funds the creation of new materials when needed, as well as
through initiatives such as their Open Textbook Challenge. This content is always openly
licensed for use by other organizations and individuals.
UNINETTUNO
The International Telematic University UNINETTUNO has implemented the MOOC offer on
OpenupEd with 106 new free courses in English, Italian, Arabic and French.The new courses are
now available on the platform taking from 6 big areas of interst (Economy, Engeneering, Law,
Litterature, Psycology, Media and Communication). The OpenupEd users can find courses and
lessons on the European Union from professors as Romano Prodi former Italian Prime Minister
and former President of EU, Mario Monti former European Commisioner and former Italian
Prime Minister, or courses and lessons on italian art, Renaissance, Old civilizations as the
egyptian one with a special cours on Pyramids and Faraons, Mathematics, Algebra, Web design,
DB programming, Global journalism and much more specific courses.

S.NO Name of the

course

Course Detail

Conducte
d by

Dura
tion

Certificati
on
(YES/NO)

Target

1.

Electronic
Systems and
Digital
Electronics

Electronic
Measurements A

3.

Electronic
Measurements B

The course offers

an overview of
the basic analog
and
digital
electronics. The
course
focuses
on
semiconductor
technology
and
devices,
transistors'
circuital
model
and
simulation,
digital electronics
main devices.
Fundamentals of
the
modern
measurement
science
and
uncertainty
theory.
Basic
principles of the
electrical
instruments and
their
correct
management.
Measurement
methods of the
main
electrical
quantities.
Modern
measurement
systems
based
on
programmable
instrumentation
and
PC-based
data acquisition.
Fundamentals of
the
modern

UNINETT
UNO
OpenupE
d

NO

II year

NO

III
year

NO

III
year

(UNINETT
UNO)

(UNINETT
UNO)

4.

Basic Circuit
Theory A

5.

Basic Circuit

measurement
science
and
uncertainty
theory.
Basic
principles of the
electrical
instruments and
their
correct
management.
Measurement
methods of the
main
electrical
quantities.
Modern
measurement
systems
based
on
programmable
instrumentation
and
PC-based
data acquisition.
It is a classic
(UNINETT
basic engineering UNO)
course, common
to different
engineering
course degrees,
and regards at
basic level the
electric circuits,
with nods to the
main engineering
applications.
Despite this, it
provides
references to the
main
electromagnetic
phenomena.
It a classic basic
(UNINETT

25

NO

II year

NO

II year

Theory B

6.

Mechatronics

engineering
UNO)
course, common
to different
engineering
course degrees,
and regards at
basic level the
electric circuits,
with nods to the
main engineering
applications.
Despite this, it
provides
references to the
main
electromagnetic
phenomena.
Most mechanical saylororg
engineering
systems
today
involve
significant
amounts
of
electrical
and
electronic control
systems.
Effectively, most
modern
mechanical
engineering
systems
are
mechatronic
systems.
Mechatronics is
the
discipline
that results from
the
synergetic
application
of
electrical,
electronic,

Hour
s

109.
5
hour
s

Yes

III
year

7.

Materials and
Materials
Processing

8.

Linear
Circuits

computer,
and
control
engineering
in
mechanical
engineering
systems.
This selfsaylororg
contained course
presents a
sampling of the
fields of Materials
Engineering and
Materials
Science. This
course is
intended
primarily for
engineering
students who are
not planning to
major in either
Materials
Engineering or
Materials Science
Learn
the Coursera
analysis
of
circuits including
resistors,
capacitors,
and
inductors.
This
course is directed
towards
people
who
are
in
science
or
engineering
fields outside of
the disciplines of
electrical
or
computer
engineering.

100
hour
s

Yes

I year

60
hour
s

Yes

II year

Electronic
Circuits

The
course EDX
introduces
engineering
in
the context of
the
lumped
circuit
abstraction.
Topics
covered
include: resistive
elements
and
networks;
independent and
dependent
sources; switches
and
MOS
transistors;
digital
abstraction;
amplifiers;
energy
storage
elements;
dynamics of firstand second-order
networks; design
in the time and
frequency
domains;
and
analog
and
digital
circuits
and applications.
Design and lab
exercises are also
significant
components
of
the course.

45
hour
s

Yes

II
YEAR

10.

MOS
Transistors

Learn how MOS Coursera

transistors work,
and
how
to
model them. The

90ho Yes
urs

II
YEAR

11.

Introduction
to Electronics

12.

VLSI CAD:
Logic to
Layout

understanding
provided in this
course
is
essential not only
for
device
modelers,
but
also for designers
of
highperformance
circuits.
This
course Coursera
introduces
students to the
basic
components
of
electronics:
diodes,
transistors, and
op
amps.
It
covers the basic
operation
and
some
common
applications.
A modern VLSI Coursera
chip
is
a
remarkably
complex
beast:
billions
of
transistors,
millions of logic
gates
deployed
for computation
and control, big
blocks
of
memory,
embedded blocks
of pre-designed
functions
designed by third
parties
(called

45
hour
s

Yes

II
YEAR

110
hour
s

Yes

III
YEAR

13

Nanotechnol
ogy: The
Basics

intellectual
property or IP
blocks). How do
people manage
to design these
complicated
chips?
Answer:
a sequence of
computer aided
design
(CAD)
tools takes an
abstract
description of the
chip, and refines
it step-wise to a
final design. This
class focuses on
the major design
tools used in the
creation of an
Application
Specific
Integrated Circuit
(ASIC) or System
on Chip (SoC)
design.
Our
focus is on the
key
representations
that
make
it
possible
to
synthesize, and
to verify, these
designs, as they
move from logic
to layout
Nanotechnology
Coursera
is an exciting
research
area
that
spans

30
hour
s

Yes

IV
YEAR

15

A System
View of
Communicati
ons: From
Signals to
Packets

disciplines from
electrical
engineering
to
biology. Over the
last two decades
the basic science
of this area has
launched
new
technologies, the
first examples of
which are finding
their way into
commercial
products.
This
four week course
will
provide
students with a
bird's eye view
into
this
fast
moving area and
leave
students
with
an
appreciation
of
the
importance
and foundation of
super-small
materials
and
devices.
This introductory Edx
course seeks to
enable you to
understand
the
basic engineering
tools used and
tradeoffs
encountered
in
the
design
of
these
systems.
This course is
divided into three

35
hour
s

Yes

IV
YEAR

parts. In Part 1,
we examine the
point-to-point
link,
which
communicates
information from
a
single
transmitter to a
single
receiver.
Part 2 examines
how
multiple
transmitters can
share the same
physical channel.
Part 3 discusses
how information
can
be
transmitted
reliably from one
station
to
another over a
network
that
connects multiple
stations. Online
interactive
exercises
are
included to help
build
your
intuition.
14

Electrify: An
Introduction
to Electrical
and
Electronic
Engineering

FutureLea
Engineering is all rn
about using science to
make the world a
better
place
and
touches our everyday
lives; the device
youre reading this on
wouldnt exist if it
wasnt for electrical
and
electronic

18
Hour
s

Yes

II
YEAR

engineers!
In
Electrify well cover
six different areas of
electrical
and
electronic engineering
over the six weeks:
1. Electromecha
nics
2. Digital
Electronics
3. DC Circuits
4. Analogue
Electronics
5. AC Circuits
6. Introduction
to
C
Programming

15

Solar: Solar
Cells, Fuel
Cells and
Batteries

This
course Stanford
focuses on the Online
operating
principles
and
applications
of
emerging
technological
solutions to the
energy demands
of the world. We
will begin with
discussing
the
scale of global
energy
usage
and requirements

45
hour
s

NO

IV
YEAR

16

Dynamic
Systems &
Controls

for
possible
solutions. Basic
physics
and
chemistry
of
solar cells, fuel
cells,
and
batteries will be
discussed
in
quantitative
detail. We will
explore
performance
issues, including
economics, from
the ideal device
to the installed
system.
Finally,
we will end with
the promise of
materials
research
for
providing
next
generation
solutions.
This
course Saylor
explores
the
dynamics
of
mechanical,
thermal,
fluid,
electrical,
and
hybrid
systems
and sub-systems,
learn
the
mathematical
models
(i.e.
differential
equations)
that
govern
these
systems
and
work
to

45
hour
s

Yes

II
YEAR

17

Ten Things
Every
Engineer
Should Know
About
Materials

understand how
these
systems
respond
to
various
inputs
both
in
timedomain
and
frequencydomain.
The
course will also
focus on stability
analysis of these
systems
with
regards
to
controller
designs. (We will
take a look at a
range of designs,
from
simple
feedback controls
to
advanced
lead-lag
compensators).
Controller design
involves complex
mathematical
calculations
which should be
handled
by
mathematical
computation
tools like SCILAB,
MATLAB,
MathCAD, Maple,
and so forth.
This
course Canvas.n
explore
ten et
things
that
range from the
menu
of
materials

NO

Science

available
to
engineers in their
profession to the
many mechanical
and
electrical
properties
of
materials
important to their
use in various
engineering
fields. It
also
discuss
the
principles behind
the
manufacturing of
those materials.
This course will
contain
discussion
forums and be
self-paced.