Pursue your professional and personal goals with a certificate program from UW Materials Science & Engineering. Our programs are designed with working adults in mind, with flexible timelines and convenient afternoon and evening classes. Certificates can also be stacked to pursue a Master's degree.
Flexible Learning for Working Professionals
Advance your career through our certificate programs, where you'll learn to lead people and projects, make impactful decisions, and think strategically.
This program, offered jointly between Materials Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, aims to improve core competencies to aid in producing reliable and cost-effective aircraft structural components. Students will acquire an in-depth knowledge of materials and state-of-the-art composite manufacturing processes, as well as key elements of quality control, specific tooling requirements and many faceted repair and maintenance approaches for composite structures.
This program focuses on the application of data science in engineering, particularly data for materials science and engineering. The development of new materials is crucial to advancing technology in virtually every field: air and space travel, renewable energy, transportation, computing and more! Fortunately, emerging fields such as data science, AI, cloud computing, quantum computing, computational simulation, and automation offer new opportunities to accelerate the materials development process. This program will provide students with a solid foundation in materials science and engineering fundamentals, while also offering hands-on training in data science techniques for materials development.
Questions?
If you have questions about the certificate programs that are not answered here, please contact Graduate Program Manager Karen Wetterhahn at karenlw@uw.edu.