Transportation Electrification

  • Course Program

Understand concepts of electric motors, fuel cells, and electric drive trains as well as electric vehicle batteries, with a focus on lithium-ion batteries. 

What you will learn:

  • Understand concepts of electric motors, fuel cells, and electric drive trains as well as electric vehicle batteries, with a focus on lithium-ion batteries
  • Advantages and disadvantages of electric drive trains
  • Electric machines, power electronics, and power semiconductors in electric drive trains
  • Wireless power transfer technology and its application in electric vehicle charging
  • System components and vehicle applications of fuel cells
  • Electric machines, DC and AC motors and switched reluctance motors

Courses included in this program:

Course Program Length: 24 hours

Program Level: Introductory

Who should attend: Electrical Engineer, Software/Security Engineer, System/Computer Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Hardware Engineer, Design Engineer, Network Engineer, AI/ML Engineer, Product Engineer, Utility Engineers, Individuals Involved in Deployment of Transportation Technologies, Fleet Managers, Grid Planners

Instructors

Robert Spotnitz, President, Battery Design LLC

Dr. James Gover, Professor Emeritus at Kettering University

Dr. Chris Mi, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, and the Director of the US DOE funded GATE Center for Electric Drive Transportation

Dr. Fei, Associate professor at the energy department of the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM), Belfort, France

Mahesh Krishnamurthy, Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology; Expert at National Science Foundation (ECCS/EPCN)

Publication Year: 2015

ISBN:978-1-5386-0047-4


Transportation Electrification
  • Course Provider: Educational Activities
  • Course Number: EDP530CP
  • Credits: 2.4 CEU/ 24 PDH