Melinda Piket-May

Melinda Piket-May
Born
Melinda Jane Piket-May
Alma materNorthwestern University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scientific career
FieldsNumerical modeling
InstitutionsUniversity of Colorado Boulder
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
ThesisNumerical modeling of electromagnetic wave interactions with biological tissues at RF and optical frequencies (1990)
Websitewww.colorado.edu/ecee/melinda-piket-may Edit this at Wikidata

Melinda Jane Piket-May is an American engineer who is a professor of engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder.[1] Her research investigates numerical modeling of electromagnetic phenomena and new strategies for more inclusive engineering education.[2][3][4]

Early life and education

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Piket-May became interested in mathematics and science at high school.[5] She earned her undergraduate degree in biomedical and electrical engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.[citation needed] She moved to Northwestern University for graduate studies, where she specialized in electrical engineering and developed computational models for electromagnetic phenomena.[6] She spent her summers as an intern at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, where she developed simulations to control superconducting super-collider magnets.[5][7]

Research and career

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After earning her doctorate, Piket-Mary remained at Northwestern as a postdoctoral research assistant.[citation needed] In 2000, Piket-May joined the faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder. She was made an associate professor in 2000 and Chair of the Boulder Faculty Assembly in 2015.[citation needed] Her research considers the development of numerical methods for finite-difference time-domain method solutions of Maxwell's equations.[8] The methods she developed are based on sampling electromagnetic fields over a given period of time.[8]

Alongside her scientific research, Piket-Mary is interested in K–12, undergraduate and graduate teaching.[9][10] She was named a Timmerhaus Teaching Ambassador in 2019.[9]

Awards and honors

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  • 1999 Frontiers in Education Helen Plants Award[11]
  • 2018 Excellence Award[12]
  • 2019 Timmerhaus Teaching Ambassador[9]

Selected publications

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  • Averaged transition conditions for electromagnetic fields at a metafilm[2]
  • FD-TD modeling of digital signal propagation in 3-D circuits with passive and active loads[3]
  • Photonic bandgap structures used as filters in microstrip circuits [4]

References

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  1. ^ Melinda Piket-May publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Kuester, E.F.; Mohamed, M.A.; Piket-May, M.; Holloway, C.L. (October 2003). "Averaged transition conditions for electromagnetic fields at a metafilm". IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 51 (10): 2641–2651. Bibcode:2003ITAP...51.2641K. doi:10.1109/tap.2003.817560. ISSN 0018-926X.
  3. ^ a b Piket-May, M.; Taflove, A.; Baron, J. (1994). "FD-TD modeling of digital signal propagation in 3-D circuits with passive and active loads". IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 42 (8): 1514–1523. Bibcode:1994ITMTT..42.1514P. doi:10.1109/22.297814. ISSN 0018-9480.
  4. ^ a b Rumsey, I.; Piket-May, M.; Kelly, P.K. (1998). "Photonic bandgap structures used as filters in microstrip circuits". IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters. 8 (10): 336–338. doi:10.1109/75.735413. ISSN 1051-8207.
  5. ^ a b "Melinda Piket-May". engineergirl.org. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  6. ^ Piket-May, Melinda (1990). Numerical modeling of electromagnetic wave interactions with biological tissues at RF and optical frequencies (PhD thesis). OCLC 71789452.
  7. ^ "Melinda Piket-May – Women in Engineering". Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  8. ^ a b Taflove, Allen; Hagness, Susan C.; Piket-May, Melinda (2005), "Computational Electromagnetics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method", The Electrical Engineering Handbook, Elsevier, pp. 629–670, doi:10.1016/b978-012170960-0/50046-3, ISBN 978-0-12-170960-0
  9. ^ a b c "Piket-May named CU's Timmerhaus Teaching Ambassador". CU Connections. 2019-08-22. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  10. ^ www.colorado.edu/ecee/melinda-piket-may Edit this at Wikidata
  11. ^ "2014 IEEE Education Society Awards, Frontiers in Education Conference Awards, and Selected IEEE Awards". IEEE Transactions on Education. 58 (1): 58–66. February 2015. Bibcode:2015ITEdu..58...58.. doi:10.1109/TE.2014.2380511. ISSN 0018-9359.
  12. ^ "Boulder Faculty Assembly names 12 winners of Excellence Awards". CU Connections. 2011-04-05. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
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