Educational Resources
Georgia Tech offers a variety of courses on or related to batteries and energy storage that can be taken by graduate or undergraduate students. A partial list is shown below. Additionally, GTABC is working to create workforce development opportunities in collaboration with industry.
ChBE/MSE/ME/CHEM 4759: Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion
An elective class for senior-level undergraduate students interested in electrochemical storage and conversion, including the fundamentals of electrochemistry and practical battery and fuel cells.
ChBE 6130: Electrochemical Engineering
Electrochemical thermodynamics and kinetics. Corrosion. Applications to semiconductor devices, fuel cells, and batteries.
MSE 8803E: Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion
Provides students with a fundamental understanding of the scientific principles and new strategies to transfer, capture, and store energy derived from various resources (e.g., solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass), and the materials challenges for energy storage, conversion, and harvesting.
MSE 8803I: Fundamentals of Nanomaterials for Energy Applications
Provides graduate and undergraduate students of diverse backgrounds with a fundamental understanding of the scientific principles for the design, characterization, modeling, and applications of materials for energy-related applications.
MSE 6010: Fundamentals of Functional Materials
This course focuses on the effects of defects on physical properties; charge/mass transport; semiconductors, heterojunctions, electrical and magnetic polarization, interaction processes between various physical properties; electrical characterization techniques.
CHEM 6283: Electroanalytical Chemistry
Coulometry, electrolytic separations, chronopotentiometry, coulometric titrations, voltammetry, and hydrodynamic electrochemical methods of analysis.
ME 3700: Introduction to Energy Systems Engineering
Renewable, fossil, and nuclear energy and its conversion into various forms. Electrical grid, energy storage, energy conservation, and mitigation of adverse conversion.
ME 4332: Renewable Energy Systems
Renewable and efficient energy systems are introduced. Various energy conversion and storage technologies are explained and analyzed, along with their respective advantages and limitations.
ME 4803: Electric Vehicles and the Grid
This course focuses on electric vehicle technology and how the power grid must be engineered to accommodate electrification.