Colorado School of Mines
Battery Workforce Challenge
The Battery Workforce Challenge (BattChallenge) is a three-year competition beginning in Fall 2023. The Colorado School of Mines is partnering with Arapahoe Community College to form PackMules, one of 12 teams participating in the Battery Workforce Challenge’s three-year competition. As part of the competition, teams will design, build, test, and integrate an advanced EV battery into an EV Ram ProMaster provided by project sponsor Stellantis. The PackMules team consists of 9 automotive technicians and 35 engineers drawn from diverse backgrounds, including award-winning faculty excited to push their technical and leadership limits.
What is BattChallenge?
The competition will provide an immersive hands-on learning experience for all students to gain valuable engineering skills that transcend the classroom environment. Teams will follow industry design and development processes focused on battery design, simulation, controls development, testing, vehicle integration and demonstration throughout the three-year competition!
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Stellantis launched the Battery Workforce Challenge Competition (BattChallenge). This public-private partnership will build the next generation of engineers, technicians, and workers to address the unprecedented demand for a domestic EV/Battery workforce. BattChallenge is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and Stellantis, and is managed by Argonne National Laboratory. Additional sponsors for BattChallenge will include industry partners participating in the electric vehicle and battery industries.
INTERESTED?
We are actively recruiting and would love to have you join us. Contact bwc@mines.edu for more information regarding upcoming events or ways that you can get involved.
LOOKING AHEAD TO MINES@150
As Colorado School of Mines prepares for our 150th anniversary in 2024, dynamic and disruptive change is all around us. MINES@150 is our plan to position Mines for future success.
It calls for change, but also to stay true to our timeless mission, pillars and core values. MINES@150 leverages our size, location, and history, ensuring that our graduates will continue to be distinctive and highly valued, placing Mines at the frontiers of STEM education, research and innovation, and elevating our status among the world’s top universities.