project work

April – July  2024
 2 ECTS
 50€

About Elmo-Lion project work

The project work module entails collaborative group projects culminating in a comprehensive report. Students will receive a curated set of topics reflecting the current challenges and requirements of industrial partners. Students will be grouped in few teams of 4-8 people where they should distribute tasks of given project and discuss possible solutions. Each student is expected to develop individual solutions for assigned cases. Group work is performing under mentoring provided by partners of ELMO-LION project. In the end of work, students should review and evaluate 2 reports of peers and present solution in meeting with mentor and teammates. After finishing all the assignments (submission individual report and evaluation of reports of peers), students can get 2 ETCS certificate from LUT University. All the activities are held online. 

Examples of topics that were offered for project work during ELMO-LION 2023 edition of the course (in year 2024, topics are expected to be different and available for students in April):

  • Effect of future battery chemistries on battery recycling process
  • Comparison of HCl and H2SO4 processing methods for battery black mass leaching and metals recover
  • Development of materials for Li-ion cells with improved sustainability: replacement of PVDF and NMP
  • Monitoring Li-ion batteries State of Health (SoH) during lifetime

Reports are evaluated by famous experts from the following institutions:

  • LUT University

  • Aalto University

  • University of Oulu (UOULU)

  • University of Eastern Finland (UEF)

  • University of Helsinki

  • Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft University of Technology)

  • Politecnico di Milano

  • University of Padova

  • EMPA – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

  • Metso Outotec Finland Oy

  • Centro Ricerche Fiat (CRF)