CU offers class on e-vehicle drivetrains

BOULDER – Faculty members at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Colorado Springs will teach courses in the design and implementation of electric vehicle drivetrains.

The courses are funded in part by a five-year $954,000 grant to CU at Colorado Springs from the U.S. Department of Energy for the development of courses to prepare engineers for careers in developing new technologies for vehicles having electric drivetrains. The master’s-level courses will be taught by faculty members with expertise in batteries, battery controls, and power electronics.

The courses will be available through online courses and traditional in-person classrooms, making them available to people nationwide.

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“There are thousands of engineers who have either been displaced as the U.S. auto industry shifted or who have an interest in learning about creating vehicles of the future,” Greg Plett, a professor at the College of Engineering and Applied Science at CU in Colorado Spring,

Plett, the principal investigator on the project, has spent his career working with battery controls and has close relationships to many Colorado-based companies who manufacture batteries or their controls as well as large corporations such as General Motors. Plett is working with General Motors’ engineers on new methods for battery controls in future extended range electric vehicles, beyond the Chevy Volt.

For enrollment information call Adam Sadoff at 303-492-7327.

For more information about the UCCS College of Engineering and Applied Science, visit http://www.eas.uccs.edu/. For more information about the CU-Boulder Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, visit http://ecee.colorado.edu/.