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Introduction to battery-management systems

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
4.8

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Intermediate level
Some related experience required
Flexible schedule
3 weeks at 10 hours a week
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Understand how lithium-ion battery cells work

  • Understand the requirements of a battery-management system

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There are 5 modules in this course

This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5730, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree.

This course will provide you with a firm foundation in lithium-ion cell terminology and function and in battery-management-system requirements as needed by the remainder of the specialization. After completing this course, you will be able to: - List the major functions provided by a battery-management system and state their purpose - Match battery terminology to a list of definitions - Identify the major components of a lithium-ion cell and their purpose - Understand how a battery-management system “measures” current, temperature, and isolation, and how it controls contactors - Identify electronic components that can provide protection and specify a minimum set of protections needed - Compute stored energy in a battery pack - List the manufacturing steps of different types of lithium-ion cells and possible failure modes

This week, you will learn some important terminology used to describe battery cells, and will learn the principles of operation of standard electrochemical battery cells.

What's included

8 videos16 readings7 assignments1 discussion prompt

8 videos•Total 150 minutes
  • 1.0: Introduction to the Specialization•11 minutes
  • 1.1.1: Welcome to the Course!•26 minutes
  • 1.1.2: Introducing Important Battery Terminology•18 minutes
  • 1.1.3: What Are the Parts of an Electrochemical Cell?•22 minutes
  • 1.1.4: How Does an Electrochemical Cell Store and Release Energy?•20 minutes
  • 1.1.5: What Are the Best Materials to Use in an Electrochemical Cell?•23 minutes
  • 1.1.6: Example Electrochemical (incl. PbA and NiMH) Cells•25 minutes
  • 1.1.7: Summary of "Battery Boot Camp" Module plus Next Steps•4 minutes
16 readings•Total 55 minutes
  • Course Updates and Accessibility Support•1 minute
  • Non-Credit Students: Welcome and Where to Find Help•10 minutes
  • Notes for Lesson 1.0•1 minute
  • Frequently Asked Questions•5 minutes
  • Course Resources•5 minutes
  • How to Use Discussion Forums•5 minutes
  • Get Help and Meet Other Learners in this course. Join Your Discussion Forums!•2 minutes
  • Earn a Course Certificate•5 minutes
  • Are You Interested In Earning an MSEE Degree?•5 minutes
  • Notes for Lesson 1.1.1•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.1.2•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.1.3•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.1.4•10 minutes
  • Notes for Lesson 1.1.5•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.1.6•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.1.7•1 minute
7 assignments•Total 115 minutes
  • Specialization Prerequisite Quiz •30 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.1.1 •10 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.1.2 •15 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.1.3 •10 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.1.4 •10 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.1.5 •10 minutes
  • Quiz for Week 1•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
  • Introduce Yourself•10 minutes

This week, you will learn some of the principal advantages of lithium-ion cells versus standard electrochemical battery cells, what are their primary components, and how they work.

What's included

7 videos7 readings7 assignments

7 videos•Total 106 minutes
  • 1.2.1: Benefits of Lithium-Ion Cells•13 minutes
  • 1.2.2: What Makes Lithium-Ion Cells Different from Electrochemical Cells?•19 minutes
  • 1.2.3: Negative Electrodes for Lithium-Ion Cells•23 minutes
  • 1.2.4: Positive Electrodes for Lithium-Ion Cells•21 minutes
  • 1.2.5: Electrolytes and Separators for Lithium-Ion Cells•15 minutes
  • 1.2.6: Is Lithium Going to Run Out?•12 minutes
  • 1.2.7: Summary of "How Lithium-Ion Cells Work" Module Plus Next Steps•4 minutes
7 readings•Total 7 minutes
  • Notes for Lesson 1.2.1•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.2.2•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.2.3•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.2.4•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.2.5•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.2.6•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.2.7•1 minute
7 assignments•Total 210 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.2.1 •30 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.2.2 •30 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.2.3 •30 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.2.4 •30 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.2.5 •30 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.2.6 •30 minutes
  • Quiz for Week 2 •30 minutes

This week, you will begin to learn about BMS requirements, and will study the requirements for sensing and high-voltage control in detail.

What's included

9 videos9 readings8 assignments

9 videos•Total 161 minutes
  • 1.3.1: What Are the Primary Functions of a BMS?•23 minutes
  • 1.3.2: What Are Some Reasons for Modular Design?•33 minutes
  • 1.3.3: How to Sense All Cell Voltages in a BMS?•26 minutes
  • 1.3.4: How to Sense Module Temperature in a BMS?•16 minutes
  • 1.3.5: How to Sense Battery-Pack Current in a BMS?•16 minutes
  • 1.3.6: How to Control Contactors with a BMS?•14 minutes
  • 1.3.7: How to Sense Electrical Isolation in a BMS?•16 minutes
  • 1.3.8: How to Control Battery-Pack Temperature With a BMS?•14 minutes
  • 1.3.9: Summary of "BMS Sensing and High-Voltage Control" Module plus Next Steps•3 minutes
9 readings•Total 9 minutes
  • Notes for Lesson 1.3.1•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.3.2•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.3.3•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.3.4•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.3.5•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.3.6•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.3.7•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.3.8•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.3.9•1 minute
8 assignments•Total 219 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.3.1 •30 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.3.2 •30 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.3.3 •30 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.3.4 •12 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.3.5 •30 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.3.6 •30 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.3.7•12 minutes
  • Quiz for Week 3 •45 minutes

This week, you will continue to learn about BMS requirements, studying requirements for protection, interface, performance management, and diagnostics in detail.

What's included

8 videos8 readings8 assignments

8 videos•Total 108 minutes
  • 1.4.1: How Can a BMS Protect the User and Battery Pack?•15 minutes
  • 1.4.2: How Must a BMS Interface with Other System Components?•17 minutes
  • 1.4.3: Why Must a BMS Estimate SOC and SOH?•11 minutes
  • 1.4.4: What Are Cell SOC and Battery-Pack SOC?•20 minutes
  • 1.4.5: How Do I Compute Cell Available Energy and Power?•18 minutes
  • 1.4.6: How Do I Compute Battery-Pack Available Energy and Power?•16 minutes
  • 1.4.7: What Kinds of Diagnostics Must a BMS Report?•7 minutes
  • 1.4.8: Summary of "BMS Design Requirements 2-5" Module plus Next Steps•5 minutes
8 readings•Total 8 minutes
  • Notes for Lesson 1.4.1•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.4.2•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.4.3•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.4.4•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.4.5•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.4.6•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.4.7•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.4.8•1 minute
8 assignments•Total 198 minutes
  • Practice quiz for lesson 1.4.1•30 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.4.2 •8 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.4.3 •30 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.4.4•10 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.4.5 •15 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.4.6•30 minutes
  • Practice Quiz for Lesson 1.4.7 •30 minutes
  • Quiz for Week 4•45 minutes

This week, you will learn in more detail than before how lithium-ion cells are made and how they can fail.

What's included

5 videos5 readings4 assignments

5 videos•Total 63 minutes
  • 1.5.1: How Are a Lithium-Ion Cell’s Electrodes Fabricated?•12 minutes
  • 1.5.2: How is a Lithium-Ion Cell Assembled?•21 minutes
  • 1.5.3: What Are Normal Lithium-Ion Cell Aging Processes?•16 minutes
  • 1.5.4: What Are Abnormal Cell Aging Processes and Failure Modes?•11 minutes
  • 1.5.5: Summary of "How Are Cells Made? How Can They Fail?" Module plus Next Steps•3 minutes
5 readings•Total 5 minutes
  • Notes for Lesson 1.5.1•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.5.2•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.5.3•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.5.4•1 minute
  • Notes for Lesson 1.5.5•1 minute
4 assignments•Total 65 minutes
  • Quiz for Lesson 1.5.1•20 minutes
  • Quiz for Lesson 1.5.2 •15 minutes
  • Quiz for Lesson 1.5.3 •15 minutes
  • Quiz for Lesson 1.5.4•15 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

You'll learn how lithium-ion cells work and what a battery-management system needs to do to keep a battery pack safe and usable. It starts with battery terminology and electrochemical cell behavior, then builds into sensing, high-voltage control, protection, and battery-state estimation. You'll also work through concrete calculations, like estimating stored pack energy or checking electrical isolation.

Not necessarily, but some comfort with basic circuits and algebra will help. The course starts with battery terminology and cell operation, then moves into topics like voltage dividers, analog-to-digital conversion, and current sensing. If you're brand new to technical math or electrical concepts, that part may feel fast.

It's a good fit if you're new to battery management systems but not completely new to technical subjects. Because it's an intermediate course, it explains the battery and BMS ideas clearly, but it also expects you to follow engineering-style reasoning about sensing circuits, pack energy, and protection. If you want a very light, nontechnical introduction, this course may feel more detailed than you need.

Plan on about 25 hours to finish the course. At around 10 hours a week, that works out to roughly 2 to 3 weeks of study, depending on how much time you spend on the calculation-based practice. The course includes lessons, readings, and quizzes, with guided problem solving on battery packs and BMS sensing.

Yes, but the practice is guided rather than project-based. You'll work through quizzes and exercises that ask you to calculate things like pack energy, sensor readings, isolation resistance, or contactor behavior instead of building a full battery-management system from scratch. That format helps you apply each idea as you learn it.

You'll cover lithium-ion cell behavior, the main jobs of a battery-management system, and the engineering choices behind safe battery packs. The course explains how a BMS senses key signals, manages protection and high-voltage control, and estimates battery state through ideas like state of charge and state of health. It also ties those topics to cell manufacturing, aging, and failure so the battery pack makes sense as a whole system.

After finishing, you should be able to explain the main functions of a BMS and reason through how a lithium-ion pack is monitored and protected. You'll also be able to calculate useful values such as stored energy or available power and interpret common battery-state measures at an introductory level. For example, you could review a pack setup and discuss how it senses current and temperature, controls contactors, and protects against unsafe operating conditions.

It's more focused on understanding how battery systems work, with guided practice to reinforce the ideas. You'll spend most of your time in lessons, readings, and quizzes, not in open-ended labs or design projects. That makes it a good fit if you want clear explanations with calculation-based practice rather than a build-from-scratch course.

This course is a strong choice if you want battery management explained from both the cell level and the system level. Gregory Plett connects lithium-ion cell behavior to sensing, contactor control, protection, diagnostics, and failure modes, and the course regularly asks you to work through calculations instead of just absorbing definitions. If you want a concept-first course that still makes the engineering decisions feel concrete, this is a better fit than a lighter survey.

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