Build your skills with MIT’s women engineers

Courses and resources from MIT Open Learning

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3 min readJun 23, 2021

Two women engineers working in a foundry

Updated on June 22, 2023

We’ve put together a list of just a few of MIT Open Learning’s teaching and learning resources you can access to tap into the wisdom of some of MIT’s remarkable women in STEM.

Dig into MIT OpenCourseWare materials

D-Lab: Water, Sanitation, And Hygiene with Libby Hsu and
Susan Murcott
Electrical, Optical, and Magnetic Materials and Devices with Prof. Caroline Ross
Freshman Seminar: The Nature of Engineering with Prof. Lorna Gibson
Game Theory With Engineering Applications with Prof. Asuman Ozdaglar
History of Women in Science and Engineering with Maia Weinstock
Integrated Chemical Engineering Topics I: Introduction to Biocatalysis with Prof. Kristala L. Jones Prather
Introduction to Biological Engineering Design with Dr. Natalie Kuldell
Mechanics & Materials I with Prof. Carol Livermore, Prof. Simona Socrate, and others
Molecular Aspects of Chemical Engineering with Prof. Paula Hammond
Nuclear Engineering: Science, Systems and Society with Dr. Marina Dang, Prof. Anne E. White, and others
Structure of Materials with Prof. Silvija Gradecak (also available on MITx Online!)

Take an MITx course from engineering faculty

Instructor: Polina Anikeeva, Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor in Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Course: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Properties of Materials on MITx Online and MIT OpenCourseWare

Instructors: Lorna Gibson, Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering; and Jessica Sandland, Lecturer, Materials Science and Engineering, MITx Digital Learning Scientist

Courses:

Cellular Solids on MITx Online
Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Part 1: Linear Elastic Behavior on edX
Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Part 2: Stress Transformations, Beams, Columns, and Cellular Solids on edX
Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Part 3: Time Dependent Behavior and Failure on edX

Instructor: Marija Ilic, Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and others
Course: Principles of Modeling, Simulations, and Control for Electric Energy Systems on edX

Instructor: Krystyn J. Van Vliet, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, The Michael (1949) and Sonja Koerner Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; and others
Course: Making a Cell Therapy: Principles and Practice of Manufacturing on edX