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    The lectures during fall 2024 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, TU1

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

    Preliminary schedule:

    3.9
    1. General presentation of the course

    The reliability of electronics- big picture  

    5.9
    2. Design for reliability I, The need for reliability, Life-cycle & life-time analyses.

    10.9
    3. Design for reliability II, Stress vs. Strength, Bathtub curve & Concurrent Engineering

    12.9
    4. Design for reliability III, FMEA Assignment I instructions

    17.9
    5. Reliability metrology

    19.9
    6. Branches of industry – special reliability characteristics, Environmental stresses

    24.9

    		 7. Environmental stresses II

    26.9
    8. Accelerated testing – HALT

    1.10
    9. Accelerated testing – ALT;

    3.10
    10. Screening (HASS, ESS, Burn-In), Introduction to environmental testing.

    8.10
    11. Classification of environmental conditions, Accelerated environmental testing: 85/85, THB, Assignment I DL

    10.10
    12. HAST, Corrosion in electronics & Corrosion tests

    15.10

    Exam week. No lecture

    17.10

    1st Intermediate Exam (Lectures 1-12)

    Maarintie 8, TU1

    22.10
    13. Failure mechanisms in passive and active components

    24.10
    14. Electromigration Assignment II instructions

    29.10
    15. Electronic connectors

    31.10
    16. Electronic Packaging, Direct chip attachment methods- Die attach, Wire Bonding, TAB, FC

    5.11
    17. PWB materials, manufacturing, Pre-recorded lecture?

    7.11

    		      No lecture, A2 DL

    12.11
     18. PWB quality and reliability

    14.11

     19. Solder joint reliability I

    19.11

     20. Solder joint reliability II, Course recap

    21.11

    2nd Intermediate Exam (Lectures 13-20)

    Maarintie 8, TU1

    26.11

    No lecture

    28.11

    Retake Intermediate exams / Full exam, Binding registration (latest at 25.11) 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.