Melinda Piket-May

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]

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

Early life and education

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. 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

After earning her doctorate, Piket-Mary remained at Northwestern as a postdoctoral research assistant. 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. 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
  • 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
  1. Melinda Piket-May publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. 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. doi:10.1109/tap.2003.817560. ISSN 0018-926X.
  3. 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. doi:10.1109/22.297814. ISSN 0018-9480.
  4. 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. "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. 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. "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
  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. 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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