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Our self-paced online courses help engineering students, professional engineers, architects and other construction industry professionals level up their engineering skills.
Our courses are perfect for...
Students
Engineering students who need to master the fundamentals…especially if you’re engineering professors are leaving you behind
Professional Engineers
Professional engineers who need a refresher on anything from structural dynamics to finite element analysis (the stuff you know you should know)
Construction Industry Professionals
Other construction industry professionals who want to better understand what their engineering colleagues are talking about
Anyone who wants to learn Python
Anyone in the construction industry (or any industry really) who wants to learn how to use Python to optimise their workflows
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WHAT DO YOU WANT TO LEARN?
Pick a specific course, or work through a crafted learning pathway. Work at your own pace with dedicated Q&A support if and when you need it.
- Deep-dive Courses.
- In-depth video courses that walk you through a complete topic, analysis technique or design method, from start to finish with Q&A support throughput.
- Python Projects.
- Tightly focused, bite-size coding projects that teach you how to implement an engineering analysis using Python - learn engineering and coding simultaneously.
- Tutorials.
- Written tutorials that cover engineering analysis and design topics in plain English with plenty of worked examples.
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PRACTICAL PYTHON FOR ENGINEERS
Harness the power of coding and learn how to use Python to speed up your engineering workflows.
- No coding experience required.
- You’ll be up and running with your own development environment in no time.
- Build your own analysis tools.
- Then use what you learn to automate and optimise your workflows.
- Learn open-source 3D modelling tools.
- Analysis codes are only useful if you can generate the structure/mesh input data - learn how to use Blender to build 3D models for analysis.
- Download all code.
- Either build your own codes as you work through a course or simply download the complete course codes.
The ability to code is a superpower - through code you gain leverage which allows you to work with incredible speed and efficiency. Once you combine your engineering know-how with the ability to code, you'll wonder how you managed without it! Check out our free getting started tutorial.
🦾 Enlist the machines!
PRACTICAL PYTHON FOR ENGINEERS
Harness the power of coding and learn how to use Python to speed up your engineering workflows.
- No coding experience required.
- You’ll be up and running with your own development environment in no time.
- Build your own analysis tools.
- Then use what you learn to automate and optimise your workflows.
- Learn open-source 3D modelling tools.
- Analysis codes are only useful if you can generate the structure/mesh input data - learn how to use Blender to build 3D models for analysis.
- Download all code.
- Either build your own codes as you work through a course or simply download the complete course codes.
The ability to code is a superpower - through code you gain leverage which allows you to work with incredible speed and efficiency. Once you combine your engineering know-how with the ability to code, you'll wonder how you managed without it! Check out our free getting started tutorial.
Why EngineeringSkills.com?
A LEARNING PLATFORM FOR TECHNICAL PEOPLE
Not all online courses are created equally! EngineeringSkills has been built to meet the specific needs of its technically-minded users!
- Custom GPT model.
- An AI tutor to ask questions and help you clarify your understanding as you work through lectures.
- Python in the browser.
- Run your course code directly in the browser or just use the browser-based Python IDE to write your own code.
- Code/Math rendering engine.
- Reading text is only half the story. Our code and math rendering engine makes sure you can see the code and equations as they were intended.
Over 20,000 students and engineers have taken our courses.
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Our Recent Tutorials
Dive into our latest tutorials and guides for a concise and practical look at anything from structural analysis to computational fluid dynamics.
Gridshell form finding and analysis with Blender and OpenSeesPy
In part 2 of our gridshell analysis series, we'll build a workflow that allows us to digitally re-create the classic hanging chain form finding models used to identify the optimal shapes of gridshell ...more
Dr Seán Carroll
An overview of the CFD simulation process in OpenFOAM
In this tutorial, we'll be taking a practical look at the CFD simulation process in OpenFOAM. We'll be using a simple case study to demonstrate the key steps involved in a typical CFD simulation. The ...more
Dr Sumit Verma
Plate Girder Design to Eurocode 3
In this tutorial, we cover the design of steel plate girders to Eurocode 3. We’ll review exactly what a plate girder is, how it differs from a hot rolled I-section and under what circumstances you mig...more
Callum Wilson
Using VIKTOR to Build a Shareable Truss Calculator App - Project Overview
In this article, we’ll discuss how you can build a user-friendly and shareable, truss analysis app that can be easily shared and used in the browser. This means the end user doesn’t need to download o...more
Dr Seán Carroll
Build a Parametric Continuous Beam Calculator using OpenSeesPy
In this short tutorial, we’ll build a continuous beam analysis script using OpenSessPy. Multi-span continuous beams are so common, that it makes sense to have a script in our toolbox to very quickly g...more
Dr Seán Carroll
An Introduction to OpenSees and OpenSeesPy for 2D Truss Analysis
In this tutorial, we’ll take a first look at OpenSeesPy, a Python library for performing finite element analysis based on the OpenSees framework. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to perform...more
Dr Seán Carroll
Hi, I’m Seán...
...the founder of EngineeringSkills.com. Before turning all my attention to teaching online, I spent 10 years teaching students about engineering analysis and design at the University of Exeter, Warwick University and The University of Nottingham. I’m a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
EngineeringSkills.com was founded to support students and construction industry professionals to enhance their engineering analysis and design skills. Whether you want to sharpen up on the basics of constructing shear and moment diagrams or want to better understand how to analyse complex, indeterminate structures (with or without a computer), by taking courses on EngineeringSkills.com, you’ll build the knowledge and skills you need.
If you’re interested in leveraging the power of Python programming to supercharge your analysis and design, then this is also the place for you…whether you’re brand new to programming or already proficient.
When I'm not in front of a microphone or buried in a text-book, you'll find me out in the wild, doing some practical engineering...far far away from the finite elements and differential equations!
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Why not try buiding your own shear force and bending moment diagram calculator or learn how to use the Duhammel integratal to simulate crowd loading? 👇
Building a Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagram Calculator in Python
In this short Python Project, build a simple calculator for statically determinate beams
After completing this project...
- You will understand how to analytically determine the shear force and bending moment diagram for a simply supported beam
- You will understand how to build a Python script to automate the calculation
- You will be comfortable building data visualisations using the plotting library Plotly
- You will be able to apply what you learn to automate other routine engineering calculations
Simulating Crowd-induced Vibrations using the Duhamel Integral
In this Python project, we build a crowd-induced vibration simulation using the Duhamel Integral in Python
After completing this project...
- You will understand how to use the Duhamel Integral to calculate the dynamic response of SDoF systems
- You will be able to implement the solution using Python in a Jupyter Notebook
- You will understand how this numerical solution can be used to simulate the response due to quasi-random human-induced excitation
- You will be able to build a data visualisation to communicate the output of your simulation