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University of Colorado Boulder

Battery Pack Balancing and Power Estimation

This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5734, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree. In this course, you will learn how to design balancing systems and to compute remaining energy and available power for a battery pack. By the end of the course, you will be able to: - Evaluate different design choices for cell balancing and articulate their relative merits - Design component values for a simple passive balancing circuit - Use provided Octave/MATLAB simulation tools to evaluate how quickly a battery pack must be balanced - Compute remaining energy and available power using a simple cell model - Use provided Octave/MATLAB script to compute available power using a comprehensive equivalent-circuit cell model

Status: Power Electronics
Status: Estimation
IntermediateCourse23 hours

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HN

5.0Reviewed Jan 24, 2023

This is a superb course and specialization. A big thanks to Prof Gregory and the rest of the team that made it happen.

XZ

5.0Reviewed Dec 11, 2025

Very good specialization! We need harder problems!

DC

5.0Reviewed May 9, 2020

Especially the last Week 6 (Honors Course) was extremely useful, to better understand the advanced physical/chemical models for lithium batteries.

AS

5.0Reviewed Aug 1, 2020

It is an excellent course for battery enthusiasts.

NG

5.0Reviewed Sep 10, 2022

great to having this course help me out through such vast and eternal experines as in simple and effective way.

SG

5.0Reviewed Aug 4, 2020

Professor visualization is excellent and his explanation is extraordinary with the material.I am very Happy to complete this course and very Informative.

DM

5.0Reviewed Jul 20, 2023

Great content focusing on important aspects of the subject. It completes the rest of the courses in the specilization, and lays a good knowledge foundation on the subject.

SM

5.0Reviewed Jun 27, 2020

Excellent courses. Dr. Plett did a great job teaching this very relevant topic.

SP

5.0Reviewed Jul 15, 2020

This is one of the best and most useful specialization in my eyes. I would encourage every person interested in EV domain to learn it. Thank you Dr Gregory Plett for this course

ML

5.0Reviewed Aug 27, 2024

I really liked how it was put together. Along with the books, this series of courses is very interesting for anyone who wants to learn more about the world of lithium batteries.

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