MST 507Mastery · 90 days3 US credit hours·Mastery course · Upper-division / professional elective·v1 · updated 3 Oct 2026

Loop Engineering Mastery

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Course outcomes

CO1

Demonstrate Foundations — Feedback, Computing & First Loops competence: complete the Day 1–15 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.

C2 Understand

CO2

Demonstrate LLMs, Prompting & the Agentic Loop competence: complete the Day 16–30 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.

C3 Apply

CO3

Demonstrate Orchestration, Memory & Retrieval competence: complete the Day 31–45 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.

C4 Analyse

CO4

Demonstrate Evaluation, Observability & the Verifier competence: complete the Day 46–60 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.

C4 Analyse

CO5

Demonstrate Production, Security & Governance competence: complete the Day 61–75 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.

C5 Evaluate

CO6

Demonstrate Autonomous Loops, Optimization & Mastery competence: complete the Day 76–90 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.

C6 Create

Phases & skills

PhaseTopicOutcomesDeliverableSkills
1Foundations — Feedback, Computing & First Loops
Days 1–15 · C2
CO1CAPSTONE (Phase 1) — Your first engineered loop
2LLMs, Prompting & the Agentic Loop
Days 16–30 · C3
CO2CAPSTONE (Phase 2) — A from-scratch agentic loop that ships
3Orchestration, Memory & Retrieval
Days 31–45 · C4
CO3CAPSTONE (Phase 3) — Durable RAG agent with memory & HITL
4Evaluation, Observability & the Verifier
Days 46–60 · C4
CO4CAPSTONE (Phase 4) — Fully evaluated & observable loop
5Production, Security & Governance
Days 61–75 · C5
CO5CAPSTONE (Phase 5) — Hardened production loop
6Autonomous Loops, Optimization & Mastery
Days 76–90 · C6
CO6MASTERY CAPSTONE II — Build & ship the platform