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

Date	Location	Topic
Jan 14	MEB-3259	Status and Schedule Review
Jan 21	MEB-3259	Proposal Presentation with CLEAR Late meeting time of 6:15pm
Jan 23	WEB-104	Technical Open House Review Dr. Grow will be meeting with all seniors at 12:10pm to outline the standards for the Technical Open House and answer any questions that you might have. Pizza afterwards.
Jan 28	n/a	Final Project Milestones and Schedule due. Remember to keep weekly logs up to date! The logs should closely track milestones from here to project completion.
Feb 11	MEB-3259	Status Update Meeting
Mar 4	MEB-3259	Status Update Meeting Status and schedule review, prepare for Technical Open House.
Mar 6	N/A	Presentation Titles due to ECE Office Include session chair, equipment needed for presentation, order of presentations. Give to Debbie in ECE office.
Mar 11	MEB-3259	Status Update Meeting Status and schedule review, prepare for Technical Open House.
Mar 13	N/A	Presentation Abstracts due to ECE Office Banquet attendance due to Debbie in ECE office
Mar 21	N/A	Projects Finished
Mar 25	MEB-3235	Technical Open House Presentation dry run - Tentatively 6:15pm The final presentation must be complete. A representative from the CLEAR center will attend to critique your presentations. This session will run a little long do allow full time for the presentation reviews.
Mar 26	Officer's Club West (TBD)	Technical Open House Presentations      12:25pm (TBD) Project demo session for Micron - Time/place TBD Banquet at 6:30pm
Apr 3	N/A	Final Report Due This is for the thesis competition. Report due to the ECE office.
Apr 15	MEB-3235	Status Update Meeting
Apr 29	MEB-3315	Technical Design Review and Demo Session Have technical details and results ready for discussion. Give a complete demonstration of the system and results.
May 6	e-mail	Final Reports For Micron / Class Due

• Micron Project Home Page. Raheem Alhamdani, Jordan Kemp, Bryson Kent, Lucas Loero, and Ben Meakin

• "An accurate and efficient analysis method for multi-Gb/s chip-to-chip signaling schemes" by B.K. Casper, M. Haycock, and R. Mooney. In 2002 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Pages 54 - 57, 13-15 June 2002.

• "Future Microprocessor Interfaces: Analysis, Design and Optimization" by B. Casper, G. Balamurugan, J. E. Jaussi, J. Kennedy, and M. Mansuri. In 2007 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, Pages 479 - 486, 16-19 Sept. 2007.

• "Jitter in high-speed serial and parallel links" by P. K. Hanumolu, B. Casper, R. Mooney, Gu-Yeon Wei, and Un-Ku Moon. In Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Volume 4, Pages 425-428, 23-26 May 2004.

• The Stat Eye Web Site

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

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:

2007-2008:

• 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