Professional education
MIT Professional Institute
MIT's Professional Institute (PI) offers short courses of 2-6 days in length on the MIT campus during the summer. MIT PI courses are geared to working professionals in engineering and science, and they attract a worldwide student body with many different interests. PI students from industry, government and academia come to learn from MIT experts and bring actionable information back to their organizations. PI courses reach a broad spectrum of students who can communicate industry perspectives.
In keeping with the strong interest in energy on campus as well as off campus, PI offers two new courses on renewable energy for summer 2008: Liquid Transportation Fuels from Biomass: Technology and Policy Considerations (G. Stephanopoulos) and Renewable Energy: Capturing the Sun (D. Nocera). These join some long-running energy courses such as Internal Combustion Engines taught by J. Heywood and W. Cheng; Electric Motors, Generators and Drive Systems (J. Kirtley and S. Leeb);Transportation Networks (M Ben-Akiva); and Nuclear courses (M. Kazimi, N. Todreas, G. Apostolakis). PI will continue to build its portfolio of energy courses to reflect the needs of professional students, the organizations they serve and the problems that confront society.
