Free Software Courses and Learning Resources
Are you a CAD or civil engineering student or educator looking to learn Bentley software? Start here with free courses, tutorials, and curriculum tools.
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Students: Turn Your Curiosity into Career-ready Skills
Everything you need to learn, practice, and build an engineering portfolio that stands out.
- Learn at your own pace with free on-demand content
- Advance your knowledge with industry-aligned standards and practices
- Apply hands-on skills with practical courses that lead to industry-recognized certificates
Start with our most popular learning experiences or explore more courses to find the one that’s right for you.
Microstation basics
Explore a range of introductory CAD courses, helping you to get started using MicroStation.
Sustainability toolkit
Structural Basics
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Educators: Bring Learning to Life
Everything you need to plan, teach, and assess— ensuring your students are workforce-ready.
- Seamlessly integrate professional tools that your students will use in their careers
- Enhance your classroom with industry-aligned curriculum resources to keep your programs future-focused
- Guide your students with teaching materials that align with real-world infrastructure workflows
Start with the most popular educational resources or explore all resources and courses.
Intro to transportation design
Campus digital twin guide
Designed for academics and researchers, explore the Campus Digital Twin Guide and this collection of template resources that will help you create a strategy for a digital twin for applied research. Or explore live campus digital twins to bring live reality data into your classroom.
Engineering design process curriculum
The engineering design process is brings foundational thinking to engineering curriculum, mapping to criteria for the India National Board of Accreditation (NBA), UK-SPEC, or Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) in the United States. Bring hands-on learning about the engineering design process into your classroom.
Challenges
Engineering STEM Challenges and Competitions
STEM challenges let you solve real-world problems, collaborate with global peers, gain Bentley software skills recruiters look for, and graduate with a portfolio-ready project. Learn more about the winning ideas that made an impact and the competitions ahead.
AAISC/ASCE Steel Bridge Competition
Collegiate student teams compete to design and develop a scale-model steel bridge. Teams will compete regionally to qualify for the national May 2026 finals.
Design a Sustainable Racetrack
Students compete in Class of Your Own’s 2026 STEM Challenge to design a sustainable racetrack, supported by world-class motorsport and infrastructure expertise.
Zero Carbon Design Challenge
See how 20 students, aged 16-19, compete in the BAM challenge to redesign the Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings to achieve BREEAM outstanding certification.
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Bentley works with academic institutions around the world on the development of curriculum, focused student workshops, STEM challenges, and more. We welcome the opportunity to explore opportunities to collaborate with you.
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