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)

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)

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)

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)

10:30 am Battery Technology Evolution and Material Circularity Speaker: Alissa Kendall (UC Davis)

11:00 am Electrified Vehicle Life Cycle and Charging Impacts Speaker: Greg Keoleian (UM)

11:30 am Remarks on Industry Perspective and Needs Speaker: Tim Wallington (Ford)

11: 40 am Discussion Moderator: Jeremy Michalek (CMU)