Professional Certificate in Data Engineering

Get cutting-edge skills to advance your data engineering career.

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    Who Is This Program For?

    • Career Launchers: Recent STEM graduates/post-graduates/interns looking to start a career in this high-growth field by gaining exposure to data engineering

    • Career Builders: Early career software engineers/technology professionals seeking to train in the latest data engineering tools and techniques and advance their careers

    • Career Switchers: Mid-career professionals aiming to switch to data engineering from IT, analytics, finance, project management, supply chain, or another technical field

    Applicants must have:
    • A bachelor's degree or higher

    • Strong math skills

    Also recommended:
    • An educational background in STEM fields

    • Technical work experience

    • Some experience with Python, R, or SQL

    • Some experience with statistics and calculus

    Key Takeaways

    This program is designed to give you the skills you need to start or continue your career in data engineering. High-level learning outcomes for this program include:

    • Develop and analyze databases using data science and data engineering tools and skills, including SQL and Python

    • Configure a network to ensure data security

    • Implement artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) algorithms, including those for reinforcement learning and deep neural networks

    • Manage big data using data warehousing and workflow management platforms

    • Build a user interface to view and interact with large amounts of live streaming data

    • Create a GitHub portfolio to present the projects that you create to potential employers

    Download the brochure for detailed key takeaways.

    Program Highlights

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    Earn a certificate and 36 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) from MIT xPRO

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    Insights and coding demos from renowned MIT faculty

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    Learn market-ready data engineering skills in a high-growth market

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    Build a GitHub portfolio of your projects to share with potential employers

    Program Topics

    • Introduction to Python

    • Python: Introduction to NumPy

    • Python: pandas

    • Databases: SQL

    • Databases: Basic SQL Statements

    • Database Analysis and the Client–Server Interface

    • A Model to Predict Housing Prices

    • ETL, Analysis, and Visualization

    • GitHub and Advanced Python Functions

    • Software Engineering Basics

    • Basics of Client–Server Architecture

    • Types of Databases and Database Containerization

    • CDC

    • Java and Debezium

    • Using Advanced Python Programming to Create Web Applications

    • Transit Data and Application Programming Interfaces (AFIs)

    • Performing ETL Using NiFi

    • Platforms for Handling Big Data

    • Processing Big Data with Spark and Airflow

    • Introduction to ML and Advanced Probability

    • Introduction to Reinforcement Learning and Deep Neural Networks

    • Processing and Streaming Big Data

    • Creating a Data Pipeline

    • Handling Big Data with Mosquitto, ThingsBoard, and Kafka

    Career Preparation and Guidance

    Stepping into a career in data engineering requires a variety of skills, both hard and soft. This course offers you guidance for navigating a career path into tech, including crafting your materials and acing an interview. These services are provided by Emeritus, our learning collaborator for this program. The program support team includes course leaders to help you reach your learning goals. The primary objective is to give you the skills needed to be prepared for a job in this field.

    Elements of the career preparation aspects of this course include:

    • Crafting your elevator pitch

    • Optimizing your LinkedIn profile

    • Writing resumes/cover letters

    • Navigating your job search

    • Learning interview tips and preparation"

    • Negotiating salary

    Career exercises focused on launching a career as a data engineer include:

    • Building your personal brand and promoting your skills

    • Communicating technical concepts to non-technical colleagues

    • Understanding the roles and workflow of Agile development

    • Reflecting on your skills to discover how to troubleshoot and learn more quickly

    • Job search and interviewing for data engineering positions

    Data engineering really is a core component of today’s data infrastructure. And because organizations can’t function without data, it’s also a career with a great deal of opportunity and incredibly interesting work as well.
    Abel Sanchez
    Research Scientist and Executive Director of MIT’s Geospatial Data Center

    Program Faculty

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    Professor of Information Engineering in MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    John Williams holds a BA in Physics from Oxford University, an MS in Physics from UCLA, and a Ph.D. in Numerical Methods from University of Wales, Swansea. His research focuse...

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    ABEL SANCHEZ

    Executive Director, Research Scientist, Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity, MIT

    Dr. Abel Sanchez holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the Executive Director, Research Scientist,
    Laboratory for Manufacturing and Product...

    Tools and Resources in the Program

    This program employs the latest industry tools and resources, including:

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    Download the brochure for a full breakdown of the tools utilized in the program.

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    Certificate

    Get recognized! Upon successful completion of this program, MIT xPRO grants a certificate of completion to participants and 36 Continuing Education Units (CEUs). This program is graded as a pass or fail; participants must receive 75% to pass and obtain the certificate of completion.

    After successful completion of the program, your verified digital certificate will be emailed to you, at no additional cost, with the name you used when registering for the program. All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of MIT.

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    Financing Options

    We offer several options to help you afford tuition for the Professional Certificate in Data Engineering Program.

    Referrals – You and a colleague can each receive $780 off your tuition when you enroll together. Refer now Group enrollments – A discount of up to 20% is available for group enrollments. For more information, email group-enrollments@emeritus.org

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    You can opt for any one of the financing options to cover up to the full cost of the program tuition. If you are considering financing your program through one of our partners, the enrollment process can only be completed with the assistance of your program advisor.

    Please note that loan applications should be submitted no later than four business days prior to the enrollment deadline due to processing time.

    Didn't find what you were looking for? Write to us at learner.success@emeritus.org or Schedule a call with one of our Program Advisors or call us at +1 315 640 4846 (US) /  +44 141 673 6416  (UK) / +65 3138 2327  (SG)

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