Title:	ECE 4900 - Senior Thesis I, Fall 2008
Instructor:	Ken Stevens, kstevens@ece.utah.edu, MEB 4506, 585-9176
Classes:	Thu 5:00pm - 5:50pm, MEB-3235
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 clinic sections come with additional requirements and benefits than the traditional senior thesis sections. Only students selected by the ECE department to participate in the Micron clinic will be able to participate in this course.

In this course the students will implement an engineering project that is defined by Micron. 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):

Location Legend:

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

Aug 26	Introduction, Organization, Logistics, Expectations, MEB-3259
Sep 4	Project Discussion Homework: Study papers and web site assigned by Micron.
Sep 9	Teamwork lecture, 10:45 - 11:35am
Sep 11	Project Management lecture.
Sep 18	Demo of Flash Memory Testing hardware, by Greg Bray. MEB-3315
Sep 24	Meeting with Micron mentors CANCELED Rescheduled for Oct 2nd and/or Oct 8th.
Sep 25	Anatomy of a Proposal lecture. 5:00 - 5:50pm
Oct 2	Normal meeting moved to FRIDAY for meeting with Tim Hollis
Oct 3	Meeting with Micron mentor Tim Hollis 10:30am - noon, MEB-3235
Oct 8	Followup Technical Meeting with Tim Hollis 9:30am - 10:30am, MEB-3259 (clinic room) Technical Seminar, Challenges and Opportunities in Memory System Design, by Tim Hollis. 10:30am - 10:30am, WEB-1460 Lunch with Micron Foundation and sponsors, RSVP, 11:30 - 1:00pm, WEB-3740
Oct 9	Regular Thursday meeting canceled this week. Homework: Start work on project Proposal for Micron, including deliverables, BOM, milestones.
Oct 16	Fall Break -- no class
Oct 23	Writing Good Proposals lecture, 5:00 - 5:45pm Project Discussion.
Oct 30	Proposal Discussion. Due: Pre-proposal including abstract, introduction and motivation, and group information, and first pass on deliverables. Official project sign-off based on this information.
Nov 6	Team meeting time.
Nov 13	Proposal review, project discussion, web page requirements. Due: Web page setup and reporting starting this week.
Nov 20	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 27	Thanksgiving.
Dec 4	Final presentation discussion.
Dec 11	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.

• 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.

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.

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.

• 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