Title:	ECE 4910 - Senior Thesis II, Spring 2008
Instructor:	Ken Stevens, kstevens@ece.utah.edu, MEB 4506, 585-9176
Classes:	Tue 10:45 - 11:35, Room TBA
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

Disability:	If you have one that needs addressing contact the instructor immediately in the beginning of class.
Add/Drop Policy:	We follow the very strict University of Utah policy. Click for details
Incomplete Policy:	You can't get an incomplete unless you have a documented medical or legal emergency.

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):

Legend:

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

Date	Location	Topic
Jan 8	MEB-3259	Status and Schedule Review
Jan 29	MEB-4506	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.
Jan 31	WEB-105	Technical Open House Review Dr. Grow will be meeting with all seniors at 12:00 noon to outline the standards for the Technical Open House and answer any questions that you might have.
Feb 19	MEB-3315	Status Update Meeting
Mar 7	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-3315	Status Update Meeting Status and schedule review, prepare for Technical Open House.
Mar 14	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 5pm 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 27	Officer's Club West	Technical Open House Presentations      12:25pm Hardware demo session for Micron - Time TBD Banquet at 6:00pm
Apr 4	N/A	Final Report Due This is for the thesis competition. Report due to the ECE office. This date may change...
Apr 22	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.
April 25	n/a	Abstract due to the Flash Memory Summit
May 6	e-mail	Final Reports For Micron / Class Due
June 20	n/a	Full paper due to the Flash Memory Summit
Aug 12-14	Sta Clara CA	Flash Memory Summit

Course Syllabus

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. Do 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.
  • Project Proposal
  • Final Report

• Final report for Visualizing Wireless Reception.
  Eli Ribble.

These are the projects the students developed in previous years:

2006-2007:

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

2005-2006:

• 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