Materials Processing
MIT OpenCourseWare's Materials Processing looks at how heat and matter move through materials during manufacturing, and how those transport phenomena set scaling laws for process speed, throughput, and final material quality. The course works through the physics of heat transfer, diffusion, and fluid flow as they apply to real processing methods, connecting equations to practical constraints engineers face on a production line. Materials include lecture notes, problem sets, and exams from MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering, released under an open license for self-study. There is no instructor interaction and no certificate, but the full set of course materials is available to work through at your own pace. It suits students who already have some background in heat transfer or fluid mechanics and want to see those tools applied specifically to materials manufacturing.