Online Advanced Analysis Certificate

Earn Your Structural Engineering Certificate in Advanced Analysis from One of the Top-Ranked Engineering Schools.

Through their careful examination of complex structures, both large and small, structural engineers with a focus on advanced analysis ensure the safety of millions of individuals across the globe. Society relies on them to determine how buildings and infrastructure respond to effects from dead, living, and environmental loads.

Michigan Tech's advanced analysis certificate will help you develop skills for creatively and holistically examining and designing structures for safety, durability, aesthetics, efficiency, and sustainability. 

Through online classes and integrated experiential learning opportunities, you’ll graduate from MTU with the experience and expertise to excel as an advanced structural engineering specialist. You'll be able to work in government, large engineering firms, or small organizations.

Take Fundamental Advanced Analysis Courses.

As a student in our advanced structural analysis graduate certificate program, you will take courses that build the foundational skills and knowledge to succeed in advanced structural engineering.

Learn how advanced analysis in steel frame design ensures that infrastructure and buildings can handle intense environmental loads. Explore the dynamic response of single- and multi-degree structures using exact analytical and numerical methods.

Every student in the advanced structural analysis program will take the same foundational course: Matrix Structural Analysis (CEE 4201). Then each student can choose two of three related courses to complete their certificate.

Dive deeper into the curriculum.

A modern building made of engineered wood.

Lay the Foundation For Future Graduate Study.

Our advanced analysis certificate was created to help aspiring professionals like you build on your undergraduate degree while adding structural engineering skills.

But you can also continue learning, using this certificate to launch into graduate studies. That is, you can stack this certificate with other structural engineering ones to build a customizable master's degree. You graduate not only with a master's degree but also with three focused credentials.

For instance, the chart below demonstrates how you can build your advanced degree from one required course and three structural engineering certificates: Advanced Analysis, Building Design, and Timber Design. This combination of certificates would be ideal if you wanted to focus on analyzing, designing, and building advanced timber structures. Mass timber construction, in fact, has recently grown in popularity as people have become more interested in sustainable buildings with lower carbon footprints.

Alternatively, you could combine your advanced analysis certificate with another two certificates; there are four from which you can choose.

This is a chart that deminstrates how people can build their master's in Civil Engineering degree from three stackable certificates.

Visit the certificate's CEGE page for additional information about the program, the modality of the courses, and the instructors. 

Advanced Analysis Certificate

Why Earn Your Advanced Analysis Graduate Certificate from MTU?

Employers across the nation seek out MTU structural engineering graduates to meet the demanding and complicated challenges of the twenty-first century engineering world.

Earning your structural engineering certificate online from MTU ensures that you receive the same superb educational experience as in-person students. In fact, we are ranked the #3 best accredited online college in Michigan (EDsmart, 2024).

Access these Benefits.

  • World-class online institutional resources

    Enjoy the quality and ease of our advanced structural analysis program courses, thanks to online resources to keep you connected and engaged.

  • Industry-connected faculty

    Our structural engineering faculty bring years of industry experience to the coursework, so you can master the tools and leadership skills to meet the high demands of today’s modern world. From conducting advanced analysis in steel frame design to determining finite deformations, you’ll develop and strengthen a wide skill set in advanced structural engineering.

What Can You Do With This Online Structural Engineering Certificate?

Advanced structural analysis specialists use both numerical and closed-form analysis to determine how structures will respond under both static and dynamic loads. In many ways, then, these engineers are the foundation of our modern industrial society.

Whether you are a working professional in structural engineering or are just starting out on your advanced structural analysis journey, a structural engineering certificate in advanced analysis from MTU will set you up to succeed in a wide range of settings and career paths.

Close up of the steel frame of the Houghton lift bridge. 

Possible Careers

  • Finite element analyst
  • Failure analysis engineer
  • Mechanical engineer
  • Structural engineer
  • Structural analyst

Get Started on Your Online Advanced Analysis Certificate.

Want to learn more about how our graduate certificate can prepare you for complex tasks such as performing advanced analysis in steel frame design? Or determining environmental impacts on buildings? 

Take the next step on your journey at Michigan Tech. We are here to answer your questions and to help you succeed in your online program.