Michael W. Pfetsch
Welcome to the University at Buffalo homepage of
Michael W. Pfetsch. I am a fourth year
undergraduate electrical
engineering major and plan to graduate in May 2005 with a Bachelor of
Science in
Electrical Engineering and a minor in Computer Science.
I will be participating in a senior research project during the
Spring 2005 semester with
Dr. Wayne A. Anderson in the
Microelectronics Fabrication Laboratory. This project is funded by
the Senior Scholarship Award I received from the School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences, and will involve the electrical and optical
analysis of thin film silicon.
Last fall I took several courses in the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, most notably Computer Architecture and Introduction to
Very Large Scale
Integrated Electronics. It is in these two
areas that I am interested in studying at the graduate level. Although
these courses are offered outside of the Department of Electrical
Engineering, I feel that they have much relevance to the field of
electrical engineering.
Since May 2004, I have worked with
Dr. Wayne A. Anderson as an undergraduate research
assistant in the Microelectronics Fabrication Laboratory. The primary
focus of this work was on analyzing the parameters that affect
activation energy in
amorphous and nanocrystalline silicon thin films. This project was
funded by the National Science
Foundation. Dr.
Anderson was my professor for Electronic Circuits Laboratory during the
Spring 2004 semester.
During the summers of 2003 and 2002, I worked as an undergraduate
research assistant in the Analog
VLSI Laboratory of Dr. Albert H. Titus,
in a project involving automated data acquisition using the General
Puspose Interface Bus. Dr. Titus
was my professor for EE101 in Spring 2002.
Last updated January 23, 2005