Title:	ECE 4910 - Senior Thesis II, Spring 2009
Instructor:	Ken Stevens, kstevens@ece.utah.edu, MEB 4506, 585-9176
Classes:	Wed 4:45 - 5:35, Room MEB-3235
Office Hours:	by appointment
Web Page:	www.eng.utah.edu/~kstevens/4900/4910.html
Prerequisites:	ECE 4900

This course is for students with major status who are seniors within one year of graduation. In this course the student completes the project and documentation that was defined and started in ECE 4900. The final results are presented at a public competition, and a writeup is delivered in a format suitable for a conference publication, and the working project is demonstrated.

There are several major goals for this project, which will prepare the students for industry or graduate work:

1. Select and complete a significant engineering project
2. Develop proposal and presentation skills, and paper writing skills
3. Project organization, planning, and teamwork skills

Incomplete Policy:	You can't get an incomplete unless you have a documented medical or legal emergency.
Add/Drop Policy:	The strict University policy is applied.
Disability:	If you have a condition that merits consideration, you must contact the instructor at the beginning of the course.

The grade for this semester is cumulative for this course as well as 4900. Following is the grading for the course (both 4900 and 4910):

Location Legend:

MEB-3259	Clinic Room
MEB-3235	ECE Conference Room
MEB-4506	Stevens' Office
MEB-3315	Micron Lab

We will be meeting most Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30 this semester in the ECE Conference Room and the CADE lab.

• Micron Project Home Page. Lavander Begay, Travis Fiehler, E. Michael Peterson, Thomas White.

The Micron Proposal that Tim Hollis gave us to help define our project.

Also refer to the 2008-2009 Micron Proposal that Tim Hollis gave us as background information.

Synopsys HSIMPlus reference manual.

Synopsys HSIMPlus simulation manual.

Following is information useful for the class, including web page setup for your web logs, lectures, and helpful notes.

Written report requirements for the IEEE Student Paper Contest and for the final project report.

Clear instructor's calendars for presentations and feedback.

Additional clinic information from the ece department.

Anatomy of a Proposal foils.

Writing Good Proposals foils.

Project planning notes

Project Management foils.

Web Page Setup:

The downloaded file, public_html.tar, contains some web pages that you can use if you are unfamiliar with creating web pages. To install these pages, do the following:

1. Download the above file to your home directory on the CADE server.
2. If you already have a directory public_html, then:
   • cd public_html
   • cp index.html index.html.original
   • cd ..
   this will back up your original web page.
3. tar xvf public_html.tar
4. chmod -R 755 public_html

This will create a template of the web pages you need to set up the 4900 logs. Contact me if you have any questions.

These are the projects which the students developed in past years:

2009-2010:

• Evaluation of Integrated Circuit Power Supply Noise with Two-Phase Analysis
  The Micron Project Home Page.
  Ammon Hardcastle, Sze-Hsiang Harper, Kristian Blomquist, Jason Oneida, and Michael Tomer.

• Analysis and Optimization of Multi Gb/s Chip-to-Chip Communication
  See the Utah home page and the goggle code page that includes a demo and full source of the project.
  Raheem Alhamdani, Jordan Kemp, Bryson Kent, Lucas Loero, and Ben Meakin

• Open Source SLC NAND Flash Failure Analysis Platform.
  Greg Bray, Jeff Gorton, Jonathan Morgan, Kyle Stewart, Garrett Thomas.
  • Project Proposal
  • Final Report

• Final report for Visualizing Wireless Reception.
  Eli Ribble.

• NAND Flash failure behavior beyond SLC Specifications. David Chu, Jeremy Hamblin, Robert Wells, and Roger White.
• Project Sharc: Digital Signal Audio Processing. Leo Asku

• Brandon Bartosh. Remote Monitoring and Control for Ozone Generator
• Clint Brown. Computer Chip Cooling System using Parallel Microchannels
• Michael Chambers. Design and Fabrication of a Microheater Control System
• John Davis. Interactive Slow and Ultra-Luminescence Light Exhibit for Leonardo Science Museum at Library Square
• Justin Horn, James Hu, and Bryce Orgill. Capturing High Quality Video