Swayam Free Courses & Certifications

During the past 20 years, the world has seen a rapid increase in the demand for Refrigeration as well as Air Conditioning Mechanics. There was also a rise in the employment opportunities available to these mechanics, with a total of around 11,000 new vacancies being added, or created, between the years 2019 and 2020. 

While refrigeration is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space for reducing as well as maintaining the temperature of the contents of that space, on the other hand,  air conditioning helps in regulating the amount of air in any large building. The aforementioned Certified Basic Refrigerator and Air Conditioning course is offering the students a comprehensive study of the refrigeration cycles as well as a proper insight into the psychrometric processes used in air conditioning. 

It also provides the students with skills that are required for seeking employment in various companies. 

Additionally, the course will help you understand the correct process for verifying technical and mechanical gaults for HVAC systems, while also providing you with technical assistance and job training. 

The Steam Power Engineering Course’s syllabus design is made with the complete dedication and hard work of a skilled tutor. The first half of the course deals with the study of the simple steam power cycle, regeneration, reheat, and superheating. Then in the latter part of the course, actual cycle and component efficiency will also be taught. 

As the course mainly deals with Steam Power Plants, each part of the plant is discussed in detail too. The key parts which are first discussed are the kinds of steam generators, and their parts, steam turbines, their efficiency, types, and arrangements. The main motive of this course is to provide knowledge to individuals about electricity generation when steam is used as a medium. 

Swayam Steam Power Engineering Course is suitable for people in need of good teaching guidance regarding the topic of the steam power plant and its importance in today’s time. The course is ongoing and will continue for 8 weeks. This course can be selected by candidates desiring to develop a career in thermal power plants, steam power plants, or as a power engineer. 

The Stereochemistry Course’s syllabus layout is made with full dedication and is incorporated with the latest details about the new invention being done in the pharmaceutical industries. The course starts with providing the student with the basic information about configuration and chemistry in 3D space.

 The importance of chirality in drugs is explained to the students and what is its need in the upcoming time of the health industry. The importance of chiral drugs has increased a lot in the pharmaceutical industry. This is because one enantiomer of a chiral drug can have medicinal properties and the other might be toxic to take. Therefore, chirality plays a key role in the synthesis of drugs. 

Swayam Stereochemistry Course is an appropriate course for students looking for an efficient teaching source. The course will go on for 8 weeks and can be chosen by applicants wishing to develop a career in the health industry, pharmaceutical industry, or perfumery industry. The intended audience will be students with basic knowledge about chemistry, biotechnology, bioscience, and pharmacy. The student will be provided with books and references which he could refer to for a good learning experience.

No one wakes up in the morning and becomes a leader instantly. It requires strength and knowledge to become someone who leads others. People confuse the concept of leadership with motivating others but it starts with the person itself. Every field looks for people with extraordinary leadership qualities to become a help during an emergency. There is not a particular roadmap for learning leadership overnight. In the management field, stories about others' struggles or finding themselves play a vital role in giving a different viewpoint to the employees. 

By enrolling in The Essence of Leadership: Explorations from Literature Course on Swayam, candidates can learn valuable lessons from literary characters like Don Quixote, Saint Joan, and others who have come across as those who don't settle for less and take charge in bringing massive change. These stories fuel the leader inside a person to do big things in life. The candidate will learn the best way to deal with issues in their lives and change their perspective to find solutions. 

Companies consider leadership as a high-quality skill which they also seek in the candidates they hire. Having leadership qualities, candidates can impress the hiring panels of big and decent companies. This course will compel you to ask questions that no one dares to ask due to the absence of leadership qualities.

The SWAYAM, an initiative by the Government of India, is a platform developed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), NPTEL and IIT Madras assisted by Google Inc. and Persistent Systems Ltd. is a Government initiative. The prime focus of this programme is to avail specialized and practice-based learning to all the people, including the underprivileged through the digital revolution.

The Introduction to R Software programme by SWAYAM is prepared to form an essential foundation of R software. There is no worry about the cost aspect of this software because it can be used free of cost. R has its own programming language that is very strong in nature, making it capable of performing the computations, simulations, data analysis and manipulations of mathematical and statistical tasks. The Government certification provided at the end of this course is valid in all industries involved in the field of mathematical and statistical computations, programming and simulations making it professionally beneficial.

The teaching methods are really interactive and the execution of all the commands is explained using slides, which ensures practice-based learning, contains on point audio/video modules and weekly assignments for effective learning. In the present scenario of software and programming, the learning of R software is highly recommended.

Threats to wildlife are growing day by day. Serious issues are coming forward. Wildlife conservation means is concerned with the practice of keeping wild species and their habitats safe and generous in order to maintain healthy wildlife species, To restore them, as well as to enhance natural Ecosystems.

An organization has estimated that over 27,000 species have gone extinct. And they fear as the number keeps on increasing. The government is taking all the necessary steps to keep wildlife flourishing, but we as responsible citizens should take a step forward for the cause.

As part of course pedagogy in the Wildlife Conservation course on Swayam, we will flourish our knowledge on facts about wildlife and explore the importance, threats, and management of the same. We will also learn about how to tackle wild animals and species apart from pondering upon how to keep this habitant safe and growing. A special case analysis approach has been designed inspired by real-life for your effortless and better understanding.

Introduction to mechanobiology programme by Swayama is about mechanobiology. It makes the student get skilled in the concepts theoretically and practical as well. The course offers practical concepts that may be helpful to the candidates during the applications in the workplace. The course makes the students apply knowledge and take decisions wisely in an intellectual manner. The course can be learned anywhere in the candidate’s flexible way.

The course illustrates the combined concepts of mechanics and biology that explore the career in the new path. As students are searching for new paths for a career the respective path can initiate the career of the students. The course is for undergraduate level and the course involves in the study of mechanics a free flow of body simultaneously collaborating with biology as a new career option arises within.

The course is initiated by the government. Swayam is an online educational learning source that is mainly initialized for candidates who cannot afford to study in the institutions. For a learning purpose, the course is offered free of cost and the course can be done through the mobile application and website as well. After clearing the exam and fee the course offers a certificate that may help the candidates for job purposes.

With this course of Introductory Organic Chemistry, I offered by Swayam; the students will learn about the element that makes up nearly everything around us- Carbon-and makes our life possible. The candidates of this course will be provided free education about the different day to day items that use carbon compounds and how to make them, for example, oil, paints, clothing, natural gas and pharmaceutical drugs.

In this course, the candidates are going to go over the fundamentals of organic chemistry. The beginning of the journey of this course will contain the Structure of the Atoms and Molecules. Further, the candidates will learn about the arrangements of these atoms and molecules in 3D space.

This course will provide the right assistance to the students to enrich their knowledge about Organic Chemistry such that he/she is able to apply to related fields with the right knowledge and confidence. This is an undergraduate level course, so every candidate be it freshers or those who already have some knowledge in the field can apply to improve their skill sets.

Matrix method of Structural Analysis program provided by SWAYAM is a continuation of the structural analysis 1 course. During the time span of the course, candidates shall learn about the concepts and methods of structural analysis and also learn about its application procedure regarding its different components of the structure, with the progress of the course.

Matrix method of Structural Analysis program provided by SWAYAM will act as a supporting tool between the structural analysis 1 i.e. the first part of structural analysis and gradually move on to the topics of finite element method.

Matrix method of Structural Analysis also deals with the concepts of determinate and indeterminate structures, flexibility and stiffness alongside analysis of beams, preliminaries, force and displacement methods.

During the time span of the course, candidates will also be tested regularly to keep a close check on their understanding and knowledge gained from the Matrix method of structural analysis course. These learnings will also include concepts of advanced elements of structural analysis. The sessions will cover the matrix method of analysis too using the finite element method.

The Numerical methods course by Swayam is one of the tremendous courses that has its application in engineering and science fields. This course contains basic mathematical concepts like differentiation, differential equations and integration. In the digital world, numerical computation plays an important role in solving logical operations. In most of these operations, it is difficult to obtain results in an analytical manner. The main objective of this course is to provide algorithms and numerical methods for solving problems.

Real life problems from Engineering and sciences are solved using linear and nonlinear equations. Apart from this, the course also covers matrix problems that are solved using eigenvalues and eigenvectors. It also covers concepts like Jacobi theorem, Interpolation, difference tables, difference operators, forward difference, backward difference, Newton’s divided difference interpolation and Lagrange interpolation. 

The system for solving first and second order ordinary differential equations are taught through methods like Euler method, Modified Euler method, Milne PC method and Runge-Kutta method. 

This programme helps the engineers to tackle various industrial and engineering related problems. Implementation of numerical methods to solve the problems will make the candidate a great problem solver with high accuracy in problem solving.

The introductory course of Phase equilibrium thermodynamics by Swayam is designed in such a way that helps candidates get the knowledge one the fundamental subjects for understanding processes of separation and interfacial mass transfer, such as, solvent extraction, distillation etc. 

The course explains the principles governing equilibrium for single and multicomponent systems. This addresses both ideal and non-ideal solutions and addresses the full spectrum of step miscibility that is from completely miscible to totally immiscible. 

The course is a well-balanced coverage of practical value of mathematical operations and physical principles, along with various examples and exercise problems. The students will be able to apply the fundamental concepts of thermodynamics, the rules, and the related equations to the engineering design of mass transfer equipment after completion of the course. 

The course also discusses the concepts of chemical potential and fugacity. The course gives high end knowledge of introductory thermodynamics along with covering its multiple aspects and multidisciplinary concepts.

The Document Processing and Organisation Certification course by Prof. Jaideep Sharma is authorized by Indira Gandhi National Open University. This detailed course on organizing library documents is offered by Swayam. The course is four weeks long and will give a clear picture of the different processes involved in the classification and cataloguing of documents in the library.

The Document Processing and Organisation Training course discuss the two major operations involved in processing library documents. The students will learn about the different steps involved in library classification and library cataloguing. The course will give a detailed understanding of the theory of classification, mainly focusing on Dewey Decimal classification.

The Document Processing and Organisation Online Courses explain in detail the concept of cataloguing, different forms of library catalogues and the process of cataloguing books using AACR2R Anglo American Cataloguing Rules. The course will also provide an overview of different filing and shelving systems that helps in maintaining an orderly arrangement at the library.

Understanding Disciplines and Subjects Course is one of the core courses provided by the Indira Gandhi National Open University in the teacher education programme. The 8-weeks long course, included in the B.Ed programme as per the NCTE Regulations, 2014, allows candidates to understand the factors affecting the formation of an academic discipline.

Understanding Disciplines and Subjects Certification by Swayam aims at helping candidates understand the concept of knowledge and the ways of identifying specific categories of knowledge. It will further deal with the categorization of academic disciplines with the use of a knowledge base. The course will help candidates excel in the sphere of teaching and academics.

The Understanding Disciplines and Subjects Training course would assist aspiring teachers to frame school subjects and curriculum using their detailed insight about different aspects of academic disciplinary knowledge. The course will ultimately help candidates to make their teaching-learning process multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary.

The Condition Monitoring and Maintenance Management Online Course is a 2 credit undergraduate-level course that deals with the process involved in maintenance management and its specifications. The course will explain different maintenance concepts, monitoring methods, and maintenance models in detail.

The Condition Monitoring and Maintenance Management Course is a massive open online course offered by Swayam that provides a specific overview of monitoring maintenance models and identifying potential faults. The course taught over 8 weeks provides plausible solutions for effective management and monitoring of equipment.

The Condition Monitoring and Maintenance Management Training Course is coordinated by Dr. N. Venkateshwarlu, Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Technology of the Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. The course is delivered through reading materials and video lectures and assessed through online assignments and a final exam.

Design is an emerging discipline that has gained recognition in the last two decades. It is the study of the transformation of utilitarian products to fit the needs of a service or system. It bridges the gap between technology and the needs behind using said technology. Design Practice programme is an online postgraduate beginner course that will dive into the various concepts of product design. 

Design Practice certification is an industry-supported course that will be ideal for faculty and students studying mechanical engineering and product design. It is an elective course of eight weeks, where participants will be provided with assignments and video lectures to help them capture the maximum benefit this course has to offer. 

Design Practice course syllabus has been designed by IIT Kanpur in association with NPTEL. The course will be taught by Professor Shantanu Bhattacharya of IIT Kanpur. This is a free audit programme that offers certification to interested candidates who qualify for eligibility.

The Computer-Aided Drug Design online course is an 8-week program offered by Swayam, an initiative by the Indian Government’s ministry of education. The course lecture is given by academics from IIT Madras and is completely free. The candidate must pass an in-person test at one of the approved centres in order to earn certification. The examination would cost Rs. 1,000.

Drug research and development is a lengthy and costly process that can take up to ten years and cost up to billion dollars. Clinical trials fail for a variety of reasons. Computer-assisted drug design can shorten the process, eliminate surprises, and anticipate characteristics, lowering R&D costs. The Computer-Aided Drug Design training teaches students to use various free software to address molecular modeling, structure, and target-based design, quantum physics, drug similarity characteristics, QSAR pharmacokinetics, and dynamics.

The Computer-Aided Drug Design syllabus includes Introduction to drug discovery, ADME-rules, Structure and property, Force field/MM/QM, QSAR/Pharmacophore, Boundary conditions/Conformation, PK/PD, Enzymes/proteins structures/docking, etc.

The Concentration inequalities online course is an 8 weeks program offered by Swayam, the government of India’s education ministry initiative. It is generally known that functions containing a large number of unpredictable integers act more predictably and less arbitrarily than their components.

Top-notch faculty from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore delivers the Concentration inequalities classes lectures. The course also provides candidates with a government-approved certificate via Swayam, Candidates must register and take the proctored in-person exam offered by the course provider at one of the approved testing centres which costs Rs 1000.

This graduate-level Concentration inequalities training on concentration inequalities addresses the fundamentals of the subject while also introducing advanced themes and approaches. Applications from computer science, electrical engineering, and statistics will be used to demonstrate the utility of the derived inequalities. 

The Concentration inequalities syllabus covers the following topics:

• Chernoff bounds: Hoeffding’s inequality, Bennett’s inequality, Bernstein’s inequality
• Introduction & motivation: Limit results and concentration bounds
• Variance bounds: Efron-Stein inequality, Poincáre inequality
• Isoperimetric inequalities
• The transportation method
• The entropy method and log Sobolev inequality
• Other special topics

Advanced Linear Continuous Control Systems: Applications with MATLAB Programming and Simulink certification is an 8-week course developed with the associative efforts of institutions like Swayam, NPTEL, and IIT Roorkee. The main idea behind his certificate programme is to help the participants understanding the basics of the advanced concepts of linear continuous control systems. This e-certificate course is taught free but the exam is offline and chargeable.

Advanced Linear Continuous Control Systems: Applications with MATLAB Programming and Simulink training will be teaching the ways advanced control engineering is used in the multidimensional facets of engineering. Along with the above topics, the candidates will be controller design, observability, learning controllability, and observer design with the support of both practical, and numerical examples where the credit points designed is 2, and which is significant for both the certification or credit transfer.

Advanced Machining Processes certification by NPTEL and IIT Guwahati is an 8-week elective course that is found on the Swayam platform and is under their Mechanical Engineering category. This certification is mainly useful for the students who are interested in taking up the research of this subject later on. This course gives insights into the need for tools and machinery that can be used accurately in machine materials that have intricate shapes.

Advanced Machining Processes training programme is to meet the challenges related to the material removal processes that have been developed at the commercial utilization. This certification course will aim towards bringing the students up-to-date with research trends, and the latest technological developments in nontraditional, and modern machining processes. This 2 months course is free but the completion certificate requires some fee for the registration due to the end proctored examination.

The Contemporary Architecture and Design online course offered by Swayam, an initiative by the education ministry of the Indian government. The course will teach students about the historical context and current architectural trends and discusses primary stages of modernism, contemporary architecture, and postmodernism.

The Contemporary Architecture and Design training briefly discusses key characteristics with examples of both stages of modern architecture. For a more comprehensive understanding, these periods of the architectural model of philosophy will be expanded into the domains of fine arts and visual design. The contemporary Architecture and Design syllabus will assist students in developing critical thinking skills related to architectural appreciation as well as developing design vocabulary.

The Contemporary Architecture and Design training covers various Post-Modern Architecture's Stages, Master architects' works from the modern period. The course also offers participants a government-recognized certificate through Swayam. Students must register and take the course provider's proctored in-person test at one of the certified testing centres, which costs Rs 1,000.

The Corporate Finance online course’s goal is to prepare students to comprehend, interpret, and apply corporate finance principles and applications in the context of management decision-making. Students in the program should be able to grasp capital structure, capital budgeting, dividend policy, and working capital management choices at the end of the course by acquiring tools and strategies to handle sophisticated numerical issues in real-world business scenarios efficiently.

The Corporate Finance training will be divided into four modules: finance decisions, investment decisions, payout decisions, and working capital management decisions. Investment decisions are made to aid in the understanding of the value of financial assets, as well as the importance of the risk-return relationship in capital structure decisions. Financing decisions aid in selecting the best source of money while keeping the shareholders’ interests in mind.

Considerations on working capital management are centred on the best management of inventories, receivables, debtors, and payables. Finally, payout decisions are connected to whether or not to pay dividends or maintain earnings in the firm. As part of the discussion on the financial decision-making process, the Corporate Finance syllabus also explores some other pertinent problems.

The Advanced Quantum Mechanics with Applications is a 2 months core programme on quantum mechanics that is launched through the website of Swayam and is taught by the institutions - NPTEL and IIT Guwahati. The main purpose of this certificate is to provide students with the prerequisite knowledge for pursuing advanced research in the topic areas of Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Physics.

The Advanced Quantum Mechanics with Applications training usually starts with learning advanced topics like Density Matrix formalism along with its quantum optics applications. The course is designed keeping in mind an explanation of algorithms related to quantum information so that for the driven systems, quantum optics may be understood. Though the course is a core level physics category programme still it is free. But the catch behind the certification is registration fee payment and attending, and securing pass marks in the final conducted proctored exam.

The Corporate social responsibility online course by Swayam provides learners with an overview of the subject of Corporate Social Responsibility. The program begins with a review of the history of Corporate Social Responsibility activities and progresses through the CSR cycle in profit-making businesses' planning, implementation, assessment, and development. The Corporate social responsibility training closes with a discussion of how the area of corporate social responsibility is expected to grow in the future.

Advances in UHV Transmission and Distribution certification is an 8 weeks course. This course is launched with the help of NPTEL and IISc Bangalore on the platform of Swayam. This certification course with 2 credits actually introduces the students to the current advances in the transmission and distribution systems of EHV/UHV. Also, this online course helps candidates secure certificates after sitting for a proctored test at the end of the course.

Advances in UHV Transmission and Distribution training programme will start by having a discussion on the importance of the transmission of EHV or UHV, how it is growing now vs how it will be in the future. The entire syllabus in the different UHV transmission components like its design elements and substances will be covered with the help of practical, and theoretical lectures, and videos that are topped off with assignment exercises, and demonstrations. 

The Corrosion Failures and Analysis online course is offered by Swayam, a govt. Of India’s Ministry of Education initiative. The 8-week elective course lectures will be delivered by the renowned faculty of IIT Kanpur. The Corrosion Failures and Analysis training will concentrate on mentioning component failures due to corrosion and analyzing the corrosion events that caused the failures. 

It will utilize examples from many sectors and businesses, including construction, household, petrochemical, medical, and naval buildings. The course will also cover potential protective philosophies based on environmental change, materials, coatings, design, inhibitors, etc. 

The Corrosion Failures and Analysis syllabus includes various topics such as uniform corrosion, galvanic corrosion, petrochemical industries, dealloying, intergranular corrosion, pitting, crevice corrosion, corrosion cracking, erosion-corrosion, and general factors affecting corrosion.

Advances in welding and joining technologies certification is a two months course. This online programme has been made by the NPTEL and IIT Guwahati institutes who have chosen Swayam to be their provider partner. This online course is designed mainly to provide fundamental knowledge of the recent technologies involved in the process of welding, and joining. The certification course will embark upon the new material development that is used for the technological applications of welding, and joining.

Advances in welding and joining technologies training come with a syllabus that is oriented towards technological advancement, and its difference from the conventional methods involved in welding, and joining. The beginner level students will be presented with a simplified way of learning for free, and the participants will be developing an understanding of this programme through lectures and knowledge reinforcement through assignments. 

The Culturally Responsive Built Environments online course is an 8 weeks program provided by Swayam, an initiative by the Ministry of Education of the Indian government. The goal of this course is to present cultural discourse theory, practice, education, and research in the built environment. 

The Culturally Responsive Built Environments training aims to lay the groundwork and re-orient learners to apply interdisciplinary and systems thinking approaches for putting together the ecological, scientific, technical, and political elements of the topic of the culturally relevant living environment under one roof.

The Culturally Responsive Built Environments syllabus includes culture risk and disaster, practices and principles of conservation, cultural economies, social change, architectural education, winter urbanism, etc.

An Introduction To Materials: Nature And Properties certification course is an eight weeks programme which is a presentation of NPTEL and IIT Kanpur. These institutions have established a partnership to deliver this course with Swayam. The topics focused on the programme shall be crystallography, its symmetry, the structure of alloys, defects of these materials, and more.

An Introduction To Materials: Nature And Properties (Part 1: Structure Of Materials) training is taught online and gives a broader introduction on the nature of materials that can be suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students who have studied science or engineering. This course comes free for learning, but earning certificates needs around rupees one thousand for the final examination. The certification after completion shall be supported and assisted by the companies that are dealing with materials.

Basics Of Finite Element Analysis - I certification is an 8 weeks course, the curriculum of which has been created with the help of  NPTEL and IIT Kanpur. The provider which promotes the ad offers this certificate is Swayam. Talking of eligibility, the engineering students having completed 2 successful years of their B. Tech courses are eligible. This certificate course is for those who need to learn about FEA regarding their application.

Basics Of Finite Element Analysis - I training will give knowledge to participants on the theoretical aspects of finite element analysis. There are times when candidates do not understand the flawed results of them writing the wrong commercial codes. Hence this course is designed for making the applicants understand their mistakes of coding in easy mathematical ways. The course learning can be free, but the certificate requires being a part of assignments, and a proctored exam. Also, the end course certificate will be given value by industries like Power Generation, Automotive, NVH, Railways, Acoustics, etc.