Faculty Profile

Melinda Picket-May, continued

Piket-May joined the faculty at CU-Boulder in 1993 after receiving her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. As teacher of a section of the college's First Year Engineering Projects course in assistive technology, she champions the contributions that young students can make to engineering design. One of her students' projects, a swing designed for use by people with disabilities, has been exhibited twice at the Smithsonian Museum.

Piket-May also is an energetic proponent of K-12 outreach and works with ITLL to show young people that engineering is a possible and exciting career. A senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and winner of a National Science Foundation CAREER award for her research in computational electromagnetics and teaching activities, she also will be featured as an inspirational role model for young women in a new book, Women Who Soar.
—By Holly Kleinman

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