Battery Engineering Circle Seminar Series
Community of interest in advancing battery engineering and addressing the educational needs for an equitable transition to battery technology.
Imperfect Material for Perfect Batteries (Tues June 15th, 2021)
10:30 am "Raw Materials and Recycling Roadmap (Batteries Europe)" Speaker: Mari Lundstrom (Aalto University, Fi)
10:50 am "Managing Impurities from Secondary Material" Speaker: Ulla Lassi (Oulou Univ, Fi)
11:10 am "Upcycling for Future Batteries" Speaker: Bart Bartlett (University of Michigan)
11:30 am Discussion Moderator: Neil Dasgupta (University of Michigan)
Battery Education & Training (Tues June 22, 2021)
Jeffrey A. Dokho
Research Director for
United Auto Workers
American Labor Union
Research Scientist & Lecturer
Battery Management and Safety
College of Engineering
University of Michigan
10:30 am Opening remarks Jeffrey Dokho, Director of Research, United Auto Workers
10:45 am "Energy Graduate Education" Speaker: Alissa Kendall (UC Davis)
11:00 am "Battery Manufacturing Course" Speaker: Greg Less (UM)
11:15 am "Battery Control and Systems Course" Speaker: Jason Siegel (UM)
11:30 am "Employment & Powertrain Transition" Speaker: Anna Stefanopoulou (UM)
11:45 am Discussion
Battery Ecosystem - Broad Stakeholders (Morning Wed June 23, 2021)
Civil and Architectural Engineering Tennessee State University
Debra Rowe
U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
10:30 am "Battery Recycling Center" Speaker: Jeff Spangenberger (ANL)
10:50 am "Stakeholders in Siting Processing Facilities" Speaker: Andrea Gardiner (TSU)
11:10 am "Green Energy Education" Speaker: Debra Rowe (NCWE)
11:30 am Discussion
11:45 am Break
Managing Uncertain Lifetime (Afternoon Wed June 23, 2021)
12:00 pm "Statistically-Designed Power Processing for 2BESS" Speaker: Al-Thaddeus Avestruz (UM)
12:20 pm "Data-driven battery health modeling and failure prediction" Speaker: Dave Howey (Oxford)
12:40 pm "Active Estimation/Learning for Fast Testing and Diagnostics" Speaker: Xinfan Lin (UC Davis)
1:00 pm Discussion
Mapping Heterogeneity in Used cells and Packs (Wed June 30th, 2021)
Earth and Env. Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Co-director of
Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center
Materials Science and
Engineering Director,
Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation,
Carnegie Mellon University
10:30 am "Deep Diagnostics for Prognostics" Speaker: Anna Stefanopoulou
10:50 am "Sound State of Health" Speaker: Dan Steingart
11:10 am "Meso and macro-scale heterogeneities" Speaker: Jay Whitacre
11:30 am Discussion
battery Sustainability and Public Policy (Wed Aug 25th, 2021)
Civil and Env. Engineering
Director, Center for Sustainable Systems
University of Michigan
