Courses

Version Control: Git & Github 2025

The BWSI Version Control:Git and GitHub course provides students with an introduction to the motivation for version control and introduces the software tool GIT as a version control method.  This course is required for multiple BWSIx courses including: Autonomous Air . . .

Autonomous Air Vehicle Racing 2025

Welcome to the Beaver Works Summer Institute Autonomous Air Vehicle Racing course online pre-requisite materials. These components are designed to prepare students for the 4 week summer course, and are to be completed before arrival on campus this summer.  This online curriculum . . .

E-Textiles and Wearable Technology 2025

Electronics are not just on circuit boards anymore!  Wearable tech provides new opportunities to find applications from health to fashion. Learn about textile and apparel manufacturing and electronic prototyping while creating your own piece of wearable technology.

Autonomous Cognitive Assistant 2025

This course is designed to provide an introduction to fundamental topics in modern machine learning, which comprise the fundamental concepts behind neural networks. It is useful to first develop some familiarity with Python prior to taking this portion of the course. You . . .

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge 2025

Welcome to the online course for the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge, a part of MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute. This online course is one of the prerequisites to apply for the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge in the summer. In the . . .

Basics of ASICs 2025

This course will arm students with the fundamentals and a practical working knowledge of the building blocks of today’s electronic world—knowledge that will benefit the student no matter what technical discipline they decide to pursue academically.  Students will receive hands-on . . .

Cyber Operations 2025

Computer Security Beaver Works Summer Institute’s four-week Computer Security course is a wide-ranging survey of computing systems, the threats they face, and the way those threats are addressed. Starting at vacuum tubes, students will get a whirlwind tour of everything . . .

Unmanned Air System-Synthetic Aperture Radar 2025

Welcome to the Beaverwork Summer Institute (BWSI) Unamnned Aerial System Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAS-SAR) online course! We’re looking forward to helping you all learn about radar and its applications, specifically that of SAR. Please be sure to read the “Introduction” . . .

Embedded Security and Hardware Hacking 2025

Welcome! Embedded Security and Hardware Hacking – MITRE Project Beaver Works Summer Institute will cover several cybersecurity topics with a focus on threats that are especially concerning for embedded systems. These topics include cryptography, embedded systems, software security, side-channel analysis, . . .

Medlytics 2025

Welcome to the BWSI Medlytics online course!  Here are the topics we will be covering: Introduction to Working with Medical Data Coding Primer: Python, Git, and Jupyter* Probability and Statistics Machine Learning There are a total of 5 modules covering . . .

Quantum Software Development 2025

Welcome to Intro to Quantum Software Development. This is the first part of the course, which covers the prerequisite knowledge and skills needed to dive into the unfamiliar world of quantum computing. It consists of three units: Background Math, Classical . . .

Microelectronics and Hardware Development 2025

This course will provide students with an overview of how microchips, PCBs, and hardware systems are made and how they run the world.  Students will receive hands-on experience on how to design and implement hardware systems using microcontrollers and develop . . .