Over three days, this lab takes you deeper into AWS’s rich suite of machine learning tools like Amazon SageMaker, AWS Bedrock, and AWS JumpStart. This specialized course is designed for engineers and developers who are already versed in AI/ML and data science, aiming to enhance their cloud-based capabilities.

You'll engage with practical applications and live projects, taking steps to integrate AWS's advanced features into your workflows. This hands-on approach ensures you not only understand the technical specifications, but also learn to effectively implement these solutions in real-world scenarios, preparing you for the AWS Machine Learning Specialty certification.

Benefits

1. Gain practical exposure to AWS's key tools such as Amazon SageMaker, AWS Bedrock, and AWS JumpStart, enhancing your ability to build, deploy, and manage AI models effectively
2. Develop skills to navigate and manage AWS cloud environments, ensuring faster deployment and resource optimization
3. Boost your confidence by tackling complex machine-learning projects that require advanced data manipulation and model-tuning
4. Prepare for the AWS Machine Learning Specialty certification, acquiring the knowledge needed to advance your certification goals
5. Discover innovative strategies for scaling AI solutions and managing project costs, all within secure and compliant cloud architectures

Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for engineers and data scientists who are already proficient in AI/ML and Python coding and are seeking to advance their expertise in cloud-based development. Analysts and citizen developers looking for exposure to low-code tools will find this lab valuable but may find some topics advanced if there is little understanding of machine learning and computer science. Tailored to enhance existing skills, this three-day intensive lab focuses on applying practical AWS tools and strategies, preparing participants for the AWS Machine Learning Specialty certification.

Our Project Management Certificate Program, a distinctive 10-day experience, allows you to build a comprehensive foundation of core PM skills and behaviors. You'll discover your personal style as a PM and join a vibrant community of Project Management certificate holders.

Join our online learning environment in this live, instructor-led program, comprising five essential topics including initialization, planning, leading, controlling, and managing risk. Engage actively with peers through online discussions and collaborative team assignments. With classes scheduled on Saturdays, the program is conveniently designed to fit into your busy life, ensuring you can advance your skills without sacrificing your professional or personal commitments.

The Caltech program's rigor and our educators' extensive industry experience render it unparalleled. Specializing in technology-intensive fields—including electronics, aerospace, defense, energy, finance, life sciences, media, and more—prepares you for diverse sectors and functional roles. Our alumni are a testament to our impact, with a presence in leading companies, agencies, and institutions.

Benefits

As a Premier Authorized Training Partner for PMI, Caltech's Project Management Certificate Program is tailored to propel you to the forefront of effective project execution. Through interaction with seasoned professionals, gain practical insights that translate into immediate project leadership.

1. Cultivate Robust Leadership: Develop agile leadership skills to expertly guide complex projects to success
2. Advance Your Career: Open doors in industries like aerospace and finance by mastering pivotal project management techniques
3. Immediate Application: Implement real-world insights swiftly to enhance your project's performance
4. Certification Readiness: Lay the groundwork for certifications such as PMI's PMP®, with our program meeting the necessary educational hours
5. Industry Expertise: Learn from experts whose rich experience shapes a curriculum synced with the PMBOK® Guide's highest standards
6. Interactive Experience: Benefit from active learning that encourages skill application and peer interaction
7. Employer-Incentivized Learning: Take advantage of tuition assistance programs to invest in your growth
8. Broad Skillset Acquisition: Master versatile project management skills relevant across sectors and roles

Who Should Attend

For current project managers and professionals who haven't experienced a comprehensive project management program, our course offers a transformative journey. You'll move beyond instinctive management to master structured, effective strategies that elevate project outcomes.

New engineers, scientists, and technologists will discover how project management techniques directly apply to the nuanced worlds of industry and R&D, bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application.

Aspiring project managers will find our course an essential step towards PMI credentials such as the PMP® or CAPM®, with targeted training that paves the way for certification success. PDUs are available for certification maintenance.

Our PMI-aligned certificate program is designed for immediate real-world application, making it a worthy investment for employers looking to enhance their team's capabilities. Consider discussing tuition reimbursement with your employer.

This certification program combines case studies and in-class exercises to reinforce key concepts of project management: business cases and charters; decision-making, conflict management; team development; stakeholder communication; tracking IT costs, schedules, performances and risks. In addition, participants have opportunities to apply newly acquired tools to challenges in their current business environments.

Caltech CTME’s instructors bring extensive, real-world project management experience into the classroom, enabling them to teach up-to-the-minute project management tools. Aspiring business leaders experience hands-on opportunities to apply newly acquired, personalized, and concentrated content while receiving direct feedback from instructors.

Dealing with Project Change can be taken as a stand-alone short course for targeted learning. When used as an elective in the FlexCert certificate for Advanced Project Management you can tailor the program to resonate with your career aspirations and goals.

Benefits

You will learn to:

1. Plan a project in a way that anticipates change
2. Scope and evaluate the proposed value of a change
3. Identifies costs and risks associated with a change
4. Communicate the risks of change to senior management
5. Incorporate needed changes in an efficient manner

Dealing with Project Change can be taken as a stand-alone short course for targeted learning. When used as an elective in the FlexCert certificate for Advanced Project Management you can tailor the program to resonate with your career aspirations and goals.

This 40-hour program is designed to enhance your systems thinking perspective throughout the engineering process, covering everything from gathering customer requirements to systems design and integrated verification and validation. Additionally, you will learn the topics and approaches necessary for the INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP).

Caltech's expert instructors and engineering fellows are skilled practitioners in aerospace, defense, energy, and medical devices, and bring a precision-fit, personalized approach to this certificate program. Students appreciate our action-learning approach of lectures, hands-on exercises, demonstrations, and real-world examples, providing a comprehensive overview of today's systems engineering industry. You’ll experience a deeper understanding of the principles and processes required to design robust systems that allow you to thrive in the face of new challenges.

Our flexible, open-enrollment certificate program is available in two online formats: On-Demand and Live-Online, which run concurrently. The OnDemand option is pre-recorded, and optimal for participants throughout the US and internationally.

Benefits

Gain mastery over the systems engineering methods you need for creating complex, technology-driven products. The focus of this certificate program is on fundamental applications of proven methods that will help you take your customer’s requirements and operational needs and turn them into effective solutions that meet goals for cost, schedule, and performance.

Participants will learn to:

1. Conduct mission analysis and articulate a Concept of Operations
2. Assess requirements through Context Diagrams, Functional Block Diagrams, and Design Structure Matrices (DSM)
3. Architect systems, sub-systems, interfaces and interactions, hierarchies and hand-offs
4. Evolve innovative design approaches for performance, trade-offs, and managing change
5. Engineer for specialized outcomes, Design for Manufacturing, Design-to-Cost, Maintainability
6. Define cost-effective verification and validation plans
7. Effectively manage cost, schedule, risk, and accountability in engineering tasks and digital methods
8. Plan, assess, and control traditional and Agile-driven technical programs spanning hardware and software
9. Examine Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methods and approaches that use SysML
10. Analyze customer needs and develop clearly stated requirements
11. Apply systems thinking to optimize product design and development
12. Develop innovative approaches for systems design and integration
13. Produce robust designs of complex products
14. Prepare for CSEP certification from INCOSE

Additional certificate programs that may be of interest:

1. Model-Based Systems Engineering Program (MBSE): Gain an understanding of how to manage scope, digital and traditional work products, risk, and teams of diverse talents.
2. Advanced Project Management (APM): Build upon previous project management learning and be prepared for the challenges that senior practitioners face most-complexity, change leadership, and more.

Who Should Attend

Component/subsystem engineers, software/hardware engineers, systems engineers, project managers, business analysts, and technical support personnel who want a comprehensive understanding of the breadth of systems engineering activities and their interconnections across the lifecycle.

Additional certificate programs that may be of interest:

1. Model-Based Systems Engineering Program (MBSE): Gain an understanding of how to manage scope, digital and traditional work products, risk, and teams of diverse talents.
2. Advanced Project Management (APM): Build upon previous project management learning and be prepared for the challenges that senior practitioners face, such as complexity, change leadership, and more.

The Advanced MBSE certificate program is a comprehensive continuation of Caltech's MBSE Fundamentals course. Using a real-world practical example, you will dive into applying the full construct of SysML elements in the nine SysML diagrams. We cover the requirements for OMG SysML certification exams for all four levels, including SysML Model Builder Intermediate and Advanced. Designed for flexible learning, this self-paced online program focuses on showcasing the power of MBSE on system of systems through functional decomposition, requirements space, and systems structural decomposition. Participants will have access to pre-recorded videos, hands-on training using Dassault Magic System of Systems Architecture, and asynchronous instructor support for questions and feedback via a Learning Management System. Experience real-world application of MBSE on a class project, along with assignments to enhance your understanding.
 

Benefits

You will have the opportunity to further embrace the significance and value of digital engineering, gaining valuable insights into cultivating a team that can excel at model-based methods. Moreover, you will advanced your MBSE skills to:

1. Apply cross-diagram application of SysML elements effectively
2. Utilize simulation capability across diagrams to its fullest potential
3. Establish and enforce systems and model guidelines within your team
4. Gain a comprehensive understanding of SysML elements in all nine SysML diagrams
5. Seamlessly integrate SysML with other languages and standards
6. Evaluate the quality of models from team members and suppliers
7. Integrate SysML and models with other tools effortlessly
8. Communicate model contents, structure, and analyses clearly to stakeholders
9. Gain confidence in immediately applying your new skills on the job

Who Should Attend

This course addresses the needs of systems engineering professionals in aerospace, automotive, defense, electronics, energy, and medical devices. Experienced MBSE practitioners and engineering managers will find this program ideal, including those who need to manage modelers and suppliers. This course targets the essential proficiencies needed for OMG certifications for SysML (Level 3–4).

Pre-requisite: Caltech’s Model-Based Systems Engineering certificate course or equivalent course/hands-on experience. You must understand the notation for all nine SysML diagrams and be able to create them with Cameo Systems Modeler. If you are uncertain, we highly recommend that you take the introductory MBSE course first.

Agile project management is a flexible and adaptive approach that has revolutionized the way teams work and deliver results. This workshop teaches you how to apply Agile tools and techniques in your current project, regardless of your environment.

This highly interactive course leverages real-world examples from Scrum, Lean, Kanban, and other Agile concepts such as Value-Driven Delivery and Stakeholder Engagement. In addition, students will learn to effectively manage project scope, schedule, budget and quality using Agile methods.

Pre-recorded lectures are on-demand (self-paced) to fit your busy schedule. Instructors also host live office hours or reviews online, which you can attend at your option. This course is available for four weeks and takes about 16 hours of effort to complete, including readings and assignments.

Agile Techniques for Project Management can be taken as a stand-alone short course for targeted learning. When used as an elective in the FlexCert certificate for Advanced Project Management you can tailor the program to resonate with your career aspirations and goals.

Benefits

You will learn to:

1. Apply Agile concepts such as Value-Driven Delivery and Stakeholder Engagement
2. Conduct a Daily Scrum meeting
3. Establish an Agile team environment that encourages high-performance
4. Effectively manage project scope, schedule, budget, and quality using Agile methods

Agile Techniques for Project Management can be taken as a stand-alone short course for targeted learning. When used as an elective in the FlexCert certificate for Advanced Project Management you can tailor the program to resonate with your career aspirations and goals.

Who Should Attend

While there are no prerequisites, participants should have at least five years of experience managing projects.

1. Managers
2. Project managers
3. Business analysts
4. Technical professionals

The objective of this self-paced, open-enrollment program is to focus on systems thinking throughout the engineering process—from gathering customer needs and requirements to systems modeling to integrated design and delivery.

Our experts pioneered the field and expertly guided you through project-based efforts. You can build to case materials on autonomous systems ventures or choose to model your own initiative. Either way, we'll advise you along the way on considerations, trades, and coaching for implementation.

You will learn through a combination of action learning and hands-on model making using real-world cases—the skillset to hit the ground running in deployments. This program elevates your and your team’s capacity to create models that are both flexible and robust, boosting your organization's ability to deliver value as expected.

Each participant will receive a copy of the textbook A Practical Guide to SysML: The Systems Modeling Language (Third Edition).

Who Should Attend

This course addresses the needs of systems engineering professionals in aerospace, defense, electronics, mobility, and advanced medical devices. Senior and early-career engineers, analysts, designers, and developers will examine a structured approach to requirements analysis and systems design and will learn how to improve their planning, execution, and communications skills. Project managers and support teams will explore how MBSE disciplines can enhance enterprise and mission effectiveness and will gain an understanding of how to manage scope, digital and traditional work products, risk, and teams of diverse talents.

Effective leaders adopt proven principles for leading decisively during a crisis. They develop essential, functional response plans, continuously framing the crisis by embracing new information as it comes along, and adjusting their response plans as appropriate.

Leaders must actively communicate across the organization, to customers, clients, and employees, serving as a source of clear, accurate, and consistent information. Ultimately, they drive towards actionable intelligence, prepared for unexpected challenges, effectively leveraging relationships to deal with limitations and determine, in advance, when and how external parties may be brought in to help.

Crisis Leadership can be taken as a stand-alone short course for targeted learning. When used as an elective in the FlexCert certificate for Leadership Essentials, you can tailor the program to resonate with your career aspirations and goals.

Benefits

In this 16-hour workshop, you will learn to:

1. Understand where crises arise, how they evolve, and how effective leaders control them
2. Determine a leader’s role during a crisis
3. Master techniques for leading through a crisis by successfully solving problems and effectively communicating in high-pressure and ambiguous situations
4. Develop tools and frameworks to help you prepare for unidentified threats, better equipping you and your organization for uncertain times.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for business executives, managers, or team leaders facing disruption and uncertainty, operating in a high-risk environment, or in a highly reactive industry, and need to navigate online and offline crisis management. As a team leader or business owner, if you want to better respond to difficult times with agility, strategy, and methods to manage change, this course is for you!

As a project manager, it is crucial to possess strong leadership and communication skills in order to drive successful projects within your organization. This includes effectively managing a team and fostering a positive and productive work environment.

Through the Leading Effective Complex Projects Certificate Program, you will have the opportunity to develop and refine these essential skills through hands-on activities and real-world project scenarios. With a focus on identifying factors that make a project complex and making effective decisions under uncertain conditions, you'll discover how you can create a collaborative atmosphere where everyone feels valued and motivated to contribute their best efforts toward project success.

Our real-world, experienced instructors will guide you through the most challenging aspects of team management, providing you with the tools you need to apply systems thinking principles while managing conflict with confidence and certainty.

Leading Effective Complex Projects can be taken as a stand-alone short course for targeted learning. When used as an elective in the FlexCert certificate for Advanced Project Management you can tailor the program to resonate with your career aspirations and goals.

Who Should Attend

While there are no prerequisites, participants should have at least five years of experience managing projects.

1. Managers
2. Project managers
3. Business analysts
4. Technical professionals

In this program, you will delve into the foundations of machine learning algorithms, gaining a deep understanding of data preprocessing, model selection, and evaluation criteria. Through diverse use cases, we will guide you along the entire ML lifecycle, arming you with a potent toolkit to conquer industry challenges with confidence.

Our aim is to provide you with practical, applied machine-learning techniques that you can implement immediately. While we will touch upon the statistical foundations of modern ML, our primary focus will be on equipping you as a real-life industry practitioner in engineering and research domains.

This course is tailored for technically adept learners who wish to gain a comprehensive understanding of the entire AI/ML lifecycle, exploring the intricate trade-offs between commercial demands and the academic pursuit of algorithm development. Embark on this transformative journey with us and unlock your full potential in the realm of AI and machine learning.

Benefits

Participants will advance their existing machine-learning skills and be able to:

1. Understand industry applications of the end-to-end ML lifecycle
2. Complete the foundations of ML with analytical methods and statistical deep dives
3. Preprocess data to fit the needs of modern ML algorithms
4. Understand the entire ML lifecycle and its applications
5. Create robust modeling of supervised and unsupervised algorithms
6. Know which algorithm to select for various real-world scenarios
7. Approach deep learning with applied knowledge of neural networks
8. Leverage deep learning methods using modern tools like PyTorch
9. Know the differences in computing when using deep learning
10. Apply foundational large language models (LLMs) to current use cases

Who Should Attend:

This program is designed for experienced professionals with a background in engineering, science, or related fields such as aerospace, chemistry, biology, electronics, finance, communications, or technology. It is ideal for those who want to integrate data science and machine learning into their work. Learners are expected to have a solid understanding of calculus, linear algebra, probability, statistics, and basic programming skills, including Python/R. The course provides a balanced combination of theoretical concepts and practical applications.