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Battery Cell Manufacturing, Testing, and Design

Lead tomorrow’s innovations in advanced battery manufacturing process technology.

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Self-paced

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Learning Objectives

Course Overview

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Instruction Time Completion Time CEUs
Battery Cell Manufacturing, Testing, and Design ~ 4-6 hours per section 90 days to complete 2.75

Today’s global demand for electric vehicles and renewable energy storage makes understanding battery manufacturing more critical than ever. More innovations in manufacturing process technology are needed to make electric vehicles more affordable and environmentally sustainable.

This online certificate trains you on the fundamentals of battery cell manufacturing processes, testing methods, and design principles. You will learn the theory of operation for every cell manufacturing step, including electrode production, cell assembly, and formation. Additionally, you will explore how cell performance is defined and measured at the end of the line and in the lab. The course will enable you to make informed cell design decisions that balance manufacturability with optimal performance.

You will gain the knowledge to transform your approach to battery manufacturing with our expert-led certificate course.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the fundamental physics governing every step in cell manufacturing
  • Explore equipment, defects, and quality issues that affect process scaling
  • Connect manufacturing process parameters to cell performance metrics
  • Propose cell design changes to achieve performance requirements

Course Overview

The course is fully online. Learners will have opportunities to engage with the instructional team for guidance and support throughout the course. An online forum will be available to encourage open discussions, networking, and collaborative learning.  

Video lectures and reading materials will be provided. Instructors expect learners to complete problem sets and quizzes.

  • Survey the manufacturing landscape, including form factors, chemistries, and companies, within the context of the value chain
  • Describe the structure and function of the components of a finished commercial battery cell
  • Develop a “50,000-foot view” understanding of the manufacturing process

For each step of electrode production, identify its functional purpose, inputs and outputs, throughput metrics, equipment, performance metrics, control methods, and sources of defects: 

  1. Electrode mixing 
  2. Electrode coating
  3. Electrode drying
  4. Electrode calendering
  5. Electrode slitting and punching
  6. Electrode vacuum drying

For each step in cell assembly and formation, identify its functional purpose, inputs and outputs, throughput metrics, equipment, performance metrics, control methods, and sources of defects: 

  1. Winding and stacking
  2. Tab welding and enclosure insertion
  3. Electrolyte filling
  4. Formation, cycling, and aging
  • Identify key considerations for developing a cell testing program
  • Design full-cell test protocols to quantify “day-one” cell performance
  • Design aging test protocols, including reference performance tests
  • Interpret trends in test data and propose root causes, including knee mechanisms
  • Describe methods for linking full-cell performance to electrode-level performance
  • Learn how cell design fits into a product development cycle
  • Derive analytical equations to estimate full cell performance metrics from electrode design parameters
  • Develop a quantitative understanding of the negative-to-positive ratio (NPR) and anode overhang
  • Use open-source software packages to simulate cell performance
  • Use Monte Carlo simulations to study the effect of electrode variability on cell performance

Who Should Attend

  • Manufacturing process engineers
  • Battery researchers and developers
  • Chemists and material scientists
  • Mechanical and electrical engineers
  • Production managers

Too often, engineers arrive at the workplace with knowledge of either manufacturing technology or battery materials, but not both. Yet, cell manufacturing and cell performance are deeply intertwined, and understanding this connection is necessary for successful factory scale-up.

This course will help manufacturing engineers learn the fundamentals of battery materials, design, and performance, while helping materials engineers and chemists appreciate the practical challenges of large-scale manufacturing processes.

An excellent course. It helped me a lot to understand the manufacturing process from the raw materials to the finished product, including testing.
- Past Participant

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Instructional Team

Andrew Weng, PhD

  • EV Center Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
  • Program Director, Battery Talent Census, Volta Foundation
Andrew has over a decade of industry experience, including battery manufacturing, testing, systems modeling, and cell design. His research focuses on energy storage systems modeling and workforce development.

Jason Siegel, PhD

  • Director of Education, University of Michigan Electric Vehicle Center
  • Associate Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Jason’s research focuses on battery modeling, diagnostic algorithms using battery expansion measurements, and controls.

Greg Less, PhD

  • Technical Director, University of Michigan Battery Lab

Greg is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Battery Lab facility. He received a doctorate in Chemistry from the University of Michigan. Prior to founding the Battery Lab, he was a research scientist at the University of Michigan and with battery companies T/J Technologies and A123 Systems. 

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