Title:	ECE 4900 - Senior Thesis I, Fall 2007
Instructor:	Ken Stevens, kstevens@ece.utah.edu, MEB 4506, 585-9176
Classes:	Tue 11:00am - 12:00am, MEB 3235 - ECE Conference Room
Office Hours:	by appointment
Web Page:	www.eng.utah.edu/~kstevens/4900/4900.html
Prerequisites:	ECE 3910

This course is for students with major status who are seniors within one year of graduation. The students in this course will be those selected by the ECE department to participate in the Micron clinic.

In this course the students define a team engineering project that is an extension of the Micron project started last year. This project is planned and executed to completion over the course of two semesters (4910 in the spring).

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

1. Define and complete a significant engineering project
2. Develop proposal and presentation 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.

This semester will not be graded until the completion ECE 4910, the second semester of this class. Following is the grading for the course (both 4900 and 4910):

Aug 21   Introduction, Organization, Logistics, Expectations

Aug 28   Flash Memory Lecture
Homework: Study project reports from last year.

Sep 4   Project Management lecture.
Homework: Begin defining proposal for this year's project.

Sep 11   Technical proposal discussion. 11:45 - 12:30pm
Due: Early pre-proposal for Micron meeting on Wednesday

Sep 12   Meeting with our Micron mentors 1:00 - 2:30, MEB 3235

Sep 18   Team meeting time.

Sep 25   Anatomy of a Proposal lecture. 11:45 - 12:30pm
Homework: Project Proposal for Micron, includes deliverables, BOM, milestones.

Oct 2   Writing Good Proposals lecture.
Due: Pre-proposal including abstract, introduction and motivation, and group information, and first pass on deliverables. Official project sign-off based on this information.

Oct 9   Fall Break.

Oct 16   Team meeting time.

Oct 23   Proposal review, project discussion, web page requirements.
Due: Web page setup and reporting starting this week.

Oct 30   Team meeting time.

Nov 6   Team meeting time.

Nov 13   Discussion of Project and Deliverables
Due: Diagram and List of the body of the project including:

A diagram of your finished project, COMPLETED PROJECT DELIVERABLES and stretch goals, interfaces specifications and tasks, project tasks with schedule and milestones, task risk assessment, testing and integration strategy, bill of materials with vendor list and cost, references used so far (including mentors), [group] communication plan...

Due: Final written proposal for Micron.

Nov 20   Team meeting time.

Nov 27   Final presentation discussion.

Dec 4   Final mid-year performance report presentation by students.
Due: 10 minute individual presentations on technical contribution this semester.
Due: Team paper that includes contributions and designs as built to this point.

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

Course Syllabus

Project planning notes

Project Management foils.

Anatomy of a Proposal foils.

Writing Good Proposals foils.

Teamwork 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.

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

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

2005-2006:

• 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