Sanjay Sarma, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Ryan Chin, Managing Director, City Science Initiative, Lennon Rodgers, Research Scientist, MIT International Design Center
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15
Limited to 40 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: Permission of Instructor
If you are interested in designing and building electric vehicles (EVs), then this IAP class is for you.
This hands-on course brings together industry experts, MIT faculty, staff, and students to present the basic building blocks to EVs including: battery systems, electric motors, motor controllers, and the overall vehicle systems integration. Each session will delve into practical engineering issues through interactive presentations by instructors and guest speakers. There will also be working sessions conducted by student mentors. The course will address the following questions:
In addition to lectures, this year we will be offering three “hands-on” lab sessions in order for participants to apply lessons from the talks to practical in-class exercises that emphasize learning by doing and peer-to-peer collaboration.
The remaining sessions will focus on current market trends, cost challenges, competitive technologies, and future applications including urban mobility, EV infrastructure, energy storage for utilities, and the role of policy and incentives.
Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering, MIT-SUTD International Design Center
Contact: Ryan Chin, 617 253-6828, RCHIN@MIT.EDU
| Jan/19 | Tue | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E15-341 |
This session will introduce the goals of the overall course; provide an overview of EV battery systems with a focus on Li-ion technology (history, cell chemistries and attributes, cell designs and components, performance metrics, cell dynamics and models, safety, battery management); and next generation battery chemistries.
Sanjay Sarma - Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Ryan Chin - Managing Director, City Science Initiative, Eric Carlson - Senior Fellow, Rick Chamberlain - Chief Technology Officer
| Jan/20 | Wed | 09:00AM-12:00PM | e15-341 |
Led by guest speakers from Protean Electric, this session will focus on the design of controllers and electric motors. This session will also present a case study of building an electric motorcycle for the Isle of Man TT Zero race.
Guest Speakers: Chris Hilton, CTO, Protean Electric
Lennon Rodgers - Research Scientist, MIT International Design Center
| Jan/21 | Thu | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E15-341 |
This session will focus on pack design with consideration of design requirements, the specification process and vehicle integration, packaging options from cell to module to pack, thermal management, current collection, safety, pack testing, and design for impact energy absorption and crashworthiness.
Guest Speakers:
Dale Robertson, Boston-Power, Inc.
Elham Sahraei, MIT Impact and Crashworthiness Laboratory
Eric Carlson - Senior Fellow
| Jan/22 | Fri | 09:00AM-04:00PM | N52-3rd floor |
Lennon Rodgers - Research Scientist, MIT International Design Center
| Jan/25 | Mon | 09:00AM-12:00PM | N52-3rd floor |
The full day battery laboratory will be a more in-depth hands-on session of selected lecture topics. Key questions addressed will include:
Lennon Rodgers - Research Scientist, MIT International Design Center
| Jan/26 | Tue | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E15-341 |
This session will provide an automotive OEM perspective on overall vehicle integration for EVs.
Guest Speakers:
OEM (1) Greg Hubbard, Senior Engineer for Chevy Bolt, General Motors (GM)
OEM (2) Ford (TBC)
OEM (3) Tesla (TBC)
Ryan Chin - Managing Director, City Science Initiative
| Jan/27 | Wed | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E15-341 |
This session will cover trends and existing and future markets for traditional EVs, new urban vehicles, on-demand systems, and self-driving vehicles.
Guest Speaker: Zipcar or Car2go (TBC)
Ryan Chin - Managing Director, City Science Initiative, Craig Carlson - Consultant
| Jan/28 | Thu | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E15-341 |
This session will cover EV infrastructure including electric charging, vehicle-to-grid, second life EV battery re-use, and new markets (e.g., home energy management systems). This session will also introduce the EV ecosystem of MIT student research projects and clubs including Formula SAE, Electric Vehicle Team, Solar Car, etc.
Praveen Subramani, NEST
Michael Lin, MIT Media Lab
Ivan Huang, MIT Campus EVs Deployment
Ryan Chin - Managing Director, City Science Initiative, Lennon Rodgers - Research Scientist, MIT International Design Center
| Jan/29 | Fri | 09:00AM-04:00PM | N52-3rd floor |
Lennon Rodgers - Research Scientist, MIT International Design Center