ECE 6910/7910
Graduate Seminar - Spring Semester 2012
Instructor: Prof. Massood Tabib-Azar, azar.m@utah.edu
Location: WEB 2250
Meeting Time: Mondays and/or Fridays at 3:05-3:55 p.m.
Teaching Assistant: Suhas Teli, suhas.teli@utah.edu
General Course Information and Requirements
- This is a credit/no credit class required of all MS/ME students. A student continuing for the Ph.D. degree must register for ECE 7900/7910 after having previously taken ECE 6900/6910 during their MS/ME program.
- A tentative Graduate Seminar Schedule for the beginning of Spring 2012 is indicated below. Several of the seminars have yet to be announced. These slots will be filled in due course, and the speakers and topics of the seminars will be announced as the information becomes available.
- To receive credit for this class, a student must attend a certain percentage of seminars. Currently, the course instructor is determining the attendance policy for students.
- Seminar attendance will be recorded through an RFID reader. Each student registered for the course will be assigned an RFID card coded with their UID number. It is a student's responsibility to bring this RFID card to each seminar, scan it with the RFID reader that the course's TA brings to class, and stay for the duration of the seminar to get credit.
- The first graduate seminar of Fall Semester will be held on Friday, January 13th, 2012.
- Students may compensate for 3 absences by turning in a report on the research of any single graduate seminar speaker. Reports should be turned in to the course instructor before the last day of the semester.
- The student with highest attendance record will receive an Apple iPad. If multiple students tie for the best attendance record, the course instructor will randomly select one student from those tied to receive the award.
Seminar Schedule
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January 13th, 2012 "Seminar Cancelled" |
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January 20th, 2012 "A New Physics Mechanism for Space Weather-Induced Ionospheric Current Coupling to Electric Power Grids" |
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January 23rd, 2012 "High efficiency power conversion for emerging applications in power and electronic systems" |
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January 27th, 2012 "Learning New and Old Knowledge in the 21st Century" |
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February 3rd, 2012 "Applications of Metamaterials" |
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February 10th, 2012 "Application of Structural Load Feedback in Flight Control" |
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February 13th, 2012 "Low Power Frequency Synthesis using FBAR/IC Integration" |
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February 17th, 2012 "Analysis and Design of Low-Profile Antennas for Inter-Core Communications" |
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February 24th, 2012 "Silicon MEMS Oscillators – From Research To Products" |
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February 27th, 2012 "Electromagnetic metamaterials, transformation wave dynamics, and their real-world applications" |
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March 2nd, 2012 "Vacuum Nanosystems for Energy Conversion" |
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March 5th, 2012 "A New Circuit Design Paradigm Exploiting Nonlinear Phenomena " |
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March 9th, 2012 "Improving Energy Efficiency in Wireless Communications" |
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March 19th, 2012 "Light Matters – Advanced Concepts of Nano Opto-Electronics for a smarterPlanet" |
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March 23rd, 2012 "Topics in Undersea Systems" |
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March 30th, 2012 "Microelectronics in the "More than Moore" Age: Becoming a Truly Pervasive Technology" |
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April 2nd, 2012 "Eigenmode-Based Modeling and Design of Small, Conformal Antennas for Next Generation Wireless Systems" |
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April 6th, 2012 "From Research of Carbon Nanotube to Development of Biomedical Pressure Sensor" |
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April 13th, 2012 "A Transparent Microfluidic Microelectrode Array for Cortical Slice Electrophysiology and Focal Chemical Stimulation" |
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April 20th, 2012 "Engineering Genetic Circuits" |