Melinda Piket-May

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]

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]

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

• 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]