Battery Workforce Challenge Y2 Winter Workshop 2025: Full Schedule

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Each training session is categorized by Type (i.e. Event, Presentation, Roundtable, Training - Swimlane Grouped, Training & Workshops - School Grouped)
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- Presentations - Each team should have 6 graded events on their schedule.
  - For the Engineering presentations, the entire team is encouraged to be in the presentation and should sign up for their session (for headcount purposes). Teams may not attend other team’s presentations.
    - If the team wants to have virtual participation, the teams are required to set up a Teams meeting. Send the Thermal and Module meeting notice to Ravi, the SW meeting notice to Ajay Suresh, and the BDU training notice to David. The main presenter for the slides shall be in the room. Individuals on the call may only answer questions.
  - For PMAC 1, only your team PM and Voc-D can enter the assessment area. Other teams not listed in the timeslot may not attend to view.
  - For PMAC 2, your PM and designated SME will need to be seated at the table. Your team is permitted to spectate but from the back of the room. Other teams not listed in the timeslot may not attend to view.
- Training - Each team should determine which member goes to which session. All teams are required to have at least one member present for every session. All workshop attendees are required to attend on of the three trainings (or set up office hours with a sponsor).
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10:00am EST

Thermal Design Review - UA & SSCC

Friday February 28, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am EST

Center for Manufacturing Innovation - Room 215

Moderators

Trista Smith

Vocational Program Manager, Argonne National Laboratory

Trista Smith is a veteran who started her career with the US Army as an active-duty soldier where she served as a finance and accounting specialist and on the nuclear, biological and chemical hazards defense advance party team during field missions. After leaving the army she studied... Read More →

Judges

Jonathan Rhodes

Technical Specialist - Battery Systems and Electrification Engineering, AVL

Massimiliano Mastrogiorgio

Senior Battery Application Engineer, Gamma Technologies

Massimiliano Mastrogiorgio completed his studies in Energy and Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in Italy, specializing in energy production and management. He then pursued a Double Master's Degree program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, concentrating on electrochemical... Read More →

Oliver Gross

Senior Fellow, Stellantis

Oliver is a Senior Fellow for Advanced Energy Storage and Electrification, at Stellantis where he is responsible for the energy storage systems technology roadmaps, innovation, and architecture. He is an OEM Lead of the United States Advanced Battery Consortium Technical Advisory... Read More →

Thomas Glatz

Business Development for Advanced Simulation Technologies, AVL

Thomas has been working with AVL on simulation topics in various roles for more than a decade. After achieving a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from Graz University of Technology in 2013 (Austria) he joined AVL to work on system simulation topics as a development engineer, software... Read More →

Friday February 28, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am EST
Center for Manufacturing Innovation - Room 215

Presentation, UA & SSCC