Course Name: "Introduction to Civil Engineering Design"
Course Description and Info:
This free online course introduces students to the theory, tools, and techniques of engineering design and creative problem-solving, as well as design issues and practices in civil engineering. The course includes several design cases, with an emphasis on built facilities (e.g., buildings, bridges and roads). Project design explicitly concerns technical approaches as well as consideration of the existing built environment, natural environment, economic and social factors, and expected life span. 
Instructor:
Prof. Herbert Einstein

Course Name: "Uncertainty in Engineering"
Course Description and Info:
This course gives an introduction to probability and statistics, with emphasis on engineering applications. Course topics include events and their probability, the total probability and Bayes’ theorems, discrete and continuous random variables and vectors, uncertainty propagation and conditional analysis. Second-moment representation of uncertainty, random sampling, estimation of distribution parameters (method of moments, maximum likelihood, Bayesian estimation), and simple and multiple linear regression. Concepts illustrated with examples from various areas of engineering and everyday life.
Instructor:
Prof. Daniele Veneziano

Course Name: "Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Design I"
Course Description and Info:
This sophomore-level course is a project-oriented introduction to the principles and practice of engineering design. Design projects and exercises are chosen that relate to the built and natural environments. Emphasis is placed on achieving function and sustainability through choice of materials and processes, compatibility with natural cycles, and the use of active or adaptive systems. The course also encourages development of hands-on skills, teamwork, and communication; exercises and projects engage students in the building, implementation, and testing of their designs.
Board of Instructors:
Prof. Harold Hemond
Prof. Heidi Nepf
Prof. Louis Bucciarelli
Sheila Frankel 

Course Name: "Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Design I"
Course Description and Info:
In this sophomore design course, you will be challenged with three design tasks: a first concerning water resources/treatment, a second concerning structural design, and a third focusing on the conceptual (re)design of a large system, Boston’s Back Bay. The first two tasks require the design, fabrication and testing of hardware. Several laboratory experiments will be carried out and lectures will be presented to introduce students to the conceptual and experimental basis for design in both domains.
Board of Instructors:
Prof. Herbert Einstein
Prof. Heidi Nepf
Prof. Louis Bucciarelli

Course Name: "Engineering Mechanics I"
Course Description and Info:
This subject provides an introduction to the mechanics of materials and structures. You will be introduced to and become familiar with all relevant physical properties and fundamental laws governing the behavior of materials and structures and you will learn how to solve a variety of problems of interest to civil and environmental engineers. The emphasis is on the physical understanding of why a material or structure behaves the way it does in the engineering design of materials and structures.
Board of Instructors:
Prof. Franz-Josef Ulm
Prof. Markus Buehler

Course Name: "Structural Engineering Design"
Course Description and Info:
This course aims at providing students with a solid background on the principles of structural engineering design. Students will be exposed to the theories and concepts of both concrete and steel design and analysis both at the element and system levels. Hands-on design experience and skills will be gained and learned through problem sets and a comprehensive design project. An understanding of real-world open-ended design issues will be developed. Besides regular lectures, weekly recitations and project discussion sessions will be held.
Instructor:
Prof. Oral Buyukozturk 

Course Name: "Ecology II: Engineering for Sustainability"
Course Description and Info:
This course provides a review of physical, chemical, ecological, and economic principles used to examine interactions between humans and the natural environment. Mass balance concepts are applied to ecology, chemical kinetics, hydrology, and transportation; energy balance concepts are applied to building design, ecology, and climate change; and economic and life cycle concepts are applied to resource evaluation and engineering design. Numerical models are used to integrate concepts and to assess environmental impacts of human activities. Problem sets involve development of MATLAB® models for particular engineering applications. Some experience with computer programming is helpful but not essential.
Instructor:
Prof. Dennis McLaughlin 

Course Name: "Project Evaluation"
Course Description and Info:
Project Evaluation course covers methodologies for evaluating civil engineering projects, which typically are large-scale and long-lived and involve many economic, financial, social and environmental factors. The course places an emphasis on dealing with uncertainty. Students learn basic techniques of engineering economics, including net present value analysis, life-cycle costing, benefit-cost analysis, and other approaches to project evaluation. Examples are drawn from both contemporary and historical projects in various fields, including transportation systems, urban development, energy and environmental projects, water resource management, telecommunications systems, and other elements of the public and private projects and programs.
Instructors:
Prof. Joseph Sussman
Carl D. Martland 

Course Name: "Technology and Nature in American History"
Course Description and Info:
This course considers how the visual and material world of “nature” has been reshaped by industrial practices, ideologies, and institutions, particularly in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Topics include land-use patterns; the changing shape of cities and farms; the redesign of water systems; the construction of roads, dams, bridges, irrigation systems; the creation of national parks; ideas about wilderness; and the role of nature in an industrial world. From small farms to suburbia, Walden Pond to Yosemite, we will ask how technological and natural forces have interacted, and whether there is a place for nature in a technological world.
Instructor:
Jamie Pietruska 

Course Name: "Modern Navigation"
Course Description and Info:
This course introduces the concepts and applications of navigation techniques using celestial bodies and satellite positioning systems such as the Global Positioning System (GPS). Topics include astronomical observations, radio navigation systems, the relationship between conventional navigation results and those obtained from GPS, and the effects of the security systems, Selective Availability, and anti-spoofing on GPS results. Laboratory sessions cover the use of sextants, astronomical telescopes, and field use of GPS. Application areas covered include ship, automobile, and aircraft navigation and positioning, including very precise positioning applications.
Instructor:
Prof. Thomas Herring

Course Name: "Project Management"
Course Description and Info:
The field of project management deals with the planning, execution, and controlling of projects. This online course is divided into three parts as the below:
Part 1: project finance
Part 2: project evaluation
Part 3: project organization
This course will cover the basic tools, skills, and knowledge necessary to successfully manage a project through its inception, design, planning, construction, and transition phases. There will be several guest lectures discussing current projects, and a construction site visit to MIT’s Media Lab extension.
Instructor:
Prof. Fred Moavenzadeh

Course Name: "Project Management"
Course Description and Info:
The course relies on a basic project management framework in which the project life-cycle is broken into organizing, planning, monitoring, controlling and learning from old and current construction projects. Within the framework, students learn the methodologies and tools necessary for each aspect of the process as well as the theories upon which these are built. By the end of the term they are able to adapt and apply the framework to effectively manage a construction project in an Architecture/Engineering/Construction (A/E/C) organization.
Instructor:
Dr. Nathaniel Osgood

Course Name: "Advanced Studio on the Production of Space"
Course Description and Info:
This class is developed around the concept of disobedient interference within the existing models of production of space and knowledge. from chemistry, law and economy to art, architecture and urbanism – in order to investigate the sense of social responsibility and control over the complex agendas embedded in models that supports production of everyday objects and surroundings. Students will be encouraged to explore relations between material or immaterial aspects and agencies of production, whether they emerged as a consequence of connection of mind, body and space, or the infrastructural, geographical and ecological complexities of the Anthropocene.
Instructors:
Prof. Gediminas Urbonas
Nikola Bojic 

Course Name: "CityScope: New Orleans"
Course Description and Info:
CityScope will take you through a series of phases, five in all, that will present New Orleans in all of its rich and tragic facets. We will use social and political science, engineering and technical tools, architectural design and other fields and methods to explore the complexity of the city to reveal and propose solutions for its many problems. As a member of a team, you will learn to assess scenarios for the purpose of formulating social, economic and design strategies to provide humane and sustainable solutions.
Board of Instructors:
Cherie Miot Abbanat
Prof. J. Phillip Thompson
Prof. John Fernandez 

Course Name: "Solid Mechanics Laboratory"
Course Description and Info:
This course introduces students to basic properties of structural materials and behavior of simple structural elements and systems through a series of experiments. Students learn experimental technique, data collection, reduction and analysis, and presentation of results. Students generally take this subject during the same semester as 1.050 (Course Numbers in the U.S. Edu. sys), Solid Mechanics. 
Board of Instructors:
Prof. Louis Bucciarelli