1Li ion Battery – An Introduction and Advantages

2Safety Operating Area of Li-ion

3Battery pack design

4Battery pack modelling

5An Introduction to Battery Management System

6Battery Management System

7Battery Management System

8SOC Measurement in Battery System

9BMS Communication

10Battery Pack Range estimation

11Thermal System

12High Voltage Lithium Ion Battery Electrical Safety

1Who can take your course?

The person who is looking to understand the basics of battery Systems which is used in Electric Vehicle and Energy Storage applications. You may be an engineering student, fresher, or working professional who is planning to switch to Electric Vehicle or Battery Systems career in general. This course builds your strong fundamentals foundation in Battery Systems which helps you start a research, ace a job interview, or most importantly getting hands-on in a project.  

2What is included in your course?

This course includes

• Cell characterization –Cell modeling for a particular application and designing the battery configuration using MATLAB
• Battery Management System – Battery Management System and a few models using MATLAB
• Thermal Management System – Thermal Management System theory 
• Battery Pack Range estimation for a Vehicle using Microsoft excel 

3What will the student gain from your course?

The student will understand the basics of battery systems, battery system myths from an industrial point of view, and case studies for all the topics which give a good understanding of what’s happening in the industry. 

4What software skills are you teaching and how well are these tools used in the industry?

MATLAB and Microsoft excel are used in this course to simulate models and calculate to decide complex design trade-off for a battery system for the intended application. 

5What is the real world application for the tools and techniques will you teach in this course?

The Matlab model for cell and battery pack will be a real-world scenario to choose the right cell chemistry and battery pack configuration for better performance and safety point of view. The range estimation using Microsoft excel is based on an industrial standard to estimate the range based on the battery pack for different class vehicle categories. The MATLAB is extensively used for State of Charge and State of Health estimation for the lithium-ion battery pack. Lastly, although Microsoft excel may sound basic tools, in the industry this tool is used more than what we think of. In real-world applications, Microsoft Excel is used to collect data for data analysis for cell testing, range estimation calculation, and much more. 

6Which companies use these techniques and for what?

Almost all-electric vehicle companies and battery technology company uses these techniques for battery modeling for ensuring cell chemistry is the right fit for the application in performance, safety, and efficiency point of view. They also use these techniques for modeling the Battery Management System for the pack as this sub-system is paramount for the system from a safety point of view. 

7How is your course going to help me in my path to MS or PhD?

This course is going to explore all the active and upcoming research challenges and opportunities in a real-world application through case studies. Moreover, getting a strong grip on fundamentals and knowing the real-world research challenges, which is going to put you ahead to get started with your thesis ideas or to start your funded research project. 

8How is this course going to help me get a job?

The job opportunities are plenty, especially in battery and battery management systems which are challenging and complex. Although the system is complex, me being in an industry environment working with more than one tire 1 company for different battery system projects, I can tell you that to ace the job interview it’s all about how good you are with basics, and the tools will add up as bonus point. This course will help to cover these two points to get a job.