Topic outline

  • General

    The lectures during fall 2023 semester will be mainly organised "on site" in Otakaari 1 U6 KONECRANES - U149. Few lectures may be offered as pre-recorded videolectures or webinars.

    The intermediate exams are held in Maarintie 8, AS1 (R037/1018)

    Please note that all lectures will be 08.30-10.00 o'clock, but intermediate exams will start at 8.00!

    Preliminary schedule:

    5.9
    1. General presentation of the course

    The reliability of electronics- big picture  

    7.9
    1. Design for reliability I, The need for reliability, Life-cycle & life-time analyses.

    12.9
    1. Design for reliability II, Stress vs. Strength, Bathtub curve & Concurrent Engineering

    14.9
    1. Design for reliability III, FMEA Assignment I instructions

    19.9
    1. Reliability metrology

    21.9
    1. Branches of industry – special reliability characteristics, Environmental stresses

    26.9

    1st Intermediate Exam (Lectures 1-6)

    Maarintie 8, AS1

    28.9
    1. Accelerated testing – HALT

    3.10
    1. Accelerated testing – ALT;

    5.10
    1. Screening (HASS, ESS, Burn-In), Introduction to environmental testing.

    10.10
    1. Classification of environmental conditions, Accelerated environmental testing: 85/85, THB

    12.10
    1. HAST, Corrosion in electronics & Corrosion tests

    17.10

    Exam week. No lecture

    19.10

    2nd Intermediate Exam (Lectures 7-11)

    Maarintie 8, AS1

    24.10
    1. Failure mechanisms in passive and active components

    26.10
    1. Electromigration Assignment I DL & Assignment II instructions

    31.10
    1. Electronic connectors

    2.11
    1. Electronic Packaging, Direct chip attachment methods- Die attach, Wire Bonding, TAB, FC

    7.11
    1. PWB materials, manufacturing, Pre-recorded lecture

    9.11

    		      No lecture, A2 DL

    14.11
         17. PWB quality and reliability

    16.11

        18. Solder joint reliability I

    21.11

        19. Solder joint reliability II, Course recap

    23.11

    3rd Intermediate Exam (Lectures 12-18)

    Maarintie 8, AS1

    28.11 & 30.11

    No lecture

    5.12

    Retake Intermediate exams / Full exam, Binding registration (latest at 3.12) to Vesa via e-mail mandatory.

    Otakaari 1 U6 KONECRANES - U149.

    The course syllabus and more detailed (but still tentative) schedule are available in the "Materials" section.

    All official information, like the schedules and the instructions for the assignments and intermediate exams, will be sent via the "announcements" forum.