American professor and academic
Melinda Jane Piket-May is an American engineer who is a professor of engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder .[ 1] numerical modeling of electromagnetic phenomena and new strategies for more inclusive engineering education .[ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
Early life and education
Piket-May became interested in mathematics and science at high school.[ 5] 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] Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , where she developed simulations to control superconducting super-collider magnets.[ 5] [ 7]
Research and career
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] [ 8]
Alongside her scientific research, Piket-Mary is interested in K–12 , undergraduate and graduate teaching.[ 9] [ 10] [ 9]
Awards and honors
1999 Frontiers in Education Helen Plants Award[ 11]
2018 Excellence Award[ 12]
2019 Timmerhaus Teaching Ambassador[ 9]
Selected publications
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
^ Melinda Piket-May publications indexed by Google Scholar ^ 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 . ^ 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 . ^ 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 . ^ a b "Melinda Piket-May" . engineergirl.org . Retrieved 2023-07-02 .^ Piket-May, Melinda (1990). Numerical modeling of electromagnetic wave interactions with biological tissues at RF and optical frequencies (PhD thesis). OCLC 71789452 . ^ "Melinda Piket-May – Women in Engineering" . Retrieved 2023-07-02 .^ 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 ^ a b c "Piket-May named CU's Timmerhaus Teaching Ambassador" . CU Connections . 2019-08-22. Retrieved 2023-07-02 .^ www ^ "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 .^ "Boulder Faculty Assembly names 12 winners of Excellence Awards" . CU Connections . 2011-04-05. Retrieved 2023-07-02 .
