Three new graduate certificate programs at Carnegie Mellon University are tapping into the higher-education institution's expertise in artificial intelligence and other research efforts to offer courses for professionals who are looking to learn from emerging technologies.
All three of these online-based programs, which include AI Engineering Fundamentals—Mechanical Engineering; 3D Bioprinting and Biofabrication; and Computational Data Science, have been designed to be taken by currently employed professionals who wish to be introduced to or expand their current knowledge base of these fields so that they can then be made relevant at their current workplace.
"These are not your typical online classes," Marsha Lovett, vice provost for teaching and learning innovation at CMU, said in a prepared statement. "Students are going to be working directly with CMU’s world-class faculty who are experts in their fields, and they are going to be learning by doing. They’ll be seeing lots of examples and applications, and they’re going to be using tools that allow them to interact with each other and with the instructor, as well as tools of the trade that a designer or engineer would use, making it an authentic learning experience."
With the AI course, students will use common machine learning algorithms to identify and solve problems that could occur in real-world engineering environments.
The 3D bioprinting and biofabrication certificate program will teach students how to identify the right type of cells for tissue engineering use as part of a knowledge base that could translate into a laboratory setting upon course completion.
And with the computational data science program, students will aim to derive insights from large-scale data sets.
