Professional Associations

Professional Society Recognition

Administrative Council Appointment 

  • 2001-2004 Elected to be a member of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) Education Division Administrative Council
  • 1999-2001 Elected to International Union of Radio Science Administrative Council
  • 1997-2001 Elected to Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers Antennas and Wave Propagation International Administrative Council

Editorial Work

  • 2001-2006 Associate Editor for IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
  • 2000-2001 Newsletter Editor of Perspectives in Electromagnetics for Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal
  • 1997-2005 Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas and Wave Propagation Society Journal

Leadership Activities

  • 2013 - Certified facilitator for Gallup Strengths Based Leadership workshop
  • 2011 - Certified facilitator for social styles COLORS workshop
  • 2011-2012 Chair of the Faculty Council Women’s Committee
  • 2011-2012 Chair of the Faculty Council Communication Committee
  • 2011 Leadership in Engineering Education 2-day Workshop, American Society for Engineering Education, NC
  • 2010-2012 Chair of the Boulder Faculty Assembly Diversity Committee
  • 2010-2012 Secretary of the Faculty Council Budget Committee
  • 2010 Carnegie Teaching and Learning Conference (CASTL), Omaha, NE
  • 2009-2010 Chair of the Boulder Faculty Assembly Administrator Appraisal Committee
  • 2009-2011 Elected to an at-large position on the Executive Committee of the Boulder Faculty Assembly
  • 2008 – 2013 Faculty Chair of the Chancellors Committee on Women (CCW). CCW is an informed advocate for all women on the campus; classified and unclassified staff, tenure-track and non-tenure track faculty; undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, and administrators. As a representative committee of women across campus, our collective experience is diverse and proactive, and we are committed to the following ongoing goals: We monitor the status of women on campus. We recommend policy to create significant change. We work to assure justice and equity for women at the University of Colorado at Boulder. (member since 2005)
  • 2009-2014 Organizing committee for the CU Women Succeeding Symposium
  • 52009-2011 Elected to be a member-at-large representative of the Boulder Faculty Assembly to the System Faculty Council
  • 2009-2011 Investigator in CU's President's Teaching and Learning Collaborative, a Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) program
  • 2009-2010 Selected to participate in the Academic Management Institute (AMI). A leadership and administrative training program; 2 people from CU Boulder are selected to participate each year.
  • 2005-2008 re-elected 2008-2011 Selected to be a member of the National Academy of Science (NAS) Physics Division Committee on Radio Frequencies (CORF)
  • 2009 National Academy of Science team trip to San Pedro, Chile on an ambassador mission to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). It is the world’s most advanced radio astronomy observatory currently under construction at 5000 m in altitude in the Chilean Andes.
  • 2007 Research in Engineering Education Workshop, American Society for Engineering Education, Golden, CO
  • 2006 Technical Program Chair ”Frontiers in Education” IEEE Education Society Rep.
  • 2005-2014 Member of steering committee for the Institute for Ethics and Civil Engagement. Founded in 2005, the IECE's purpose is to nurture and encourage ethical and civic education at the University of Colorado at Boulder, to prepare our students for a lifetime of service to society as thoughtful, ethical and engaged citizens and contribute to the vitality of the many communities we serve from the local level to the global.
  • 2003 General Chair with James Avery of ASEE/IEEE “Frontiers in Education” Conference, "Engineering as a Human Endeavor; Partnering Academia, Government, Industry and Community", 600+ international attendees, budget ~$400,000
  • 2003 Keynote at "Self Leadership: Women Succeeding in the Professoriate" A University of Colorado Symposium, Denver Campus
  • 2001-2002 Treasurer for American Society of Engineering Education - Women in Engineering (WIE) Division
  • 2002 Participated in a national planning conference “Liberal Studies and the Integrated Engineering Education of ABET 2000” sponsored by NSF (35 faculty nationwide invited)
  • 2002 Participated in a national discussion / colloquy on “Developing a teaching and learning center in engineering” sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering (30 faculty nationwide invited)
  • 2002 Participated in a national Distance Education Colloquy “Learning Objectives for Engineering Education Laboratories; What Are They?” sponsored by ABET & Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (50 faculty nationwide invited)
  • 2001 Invited to be a member of the national Future Engineering Education Leadership (FEEL)
  • 2000 Technical Program Committee for National Radio Science Institute Conference
  • 2000 Elected to membership to URSI Commission B ; Numerical Methods
  • 1999-2000 Elected Secretary of International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Commission D
  • 1999-2000 Chair of Denver Local IEEE MTT/APS/GRSS Society
  • 1999 Elected to Senior Membership in the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers
  • 1998 Participant in National Academy of Engineering Fourth Annual Symposium on Frontiers in Engineering, Irvine, CA (participation by invitation).
  • 1997 Participant in NSF conference Achieving Success in Academia, Washington D.C. (participation by invitation).
  • 1995 Elected to membership to URSI Commission D ; High Speed Devices
  • 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999 Participant in Los Alamos National Lab and Lincoln Lab Conference on High Speed Computing, OR (participation by invitation).

Professional Activities and Developement

  • Funding Agency Reviews
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Technical Review panels
  • NSF Educational Review panels
  • NSF Curriculum, Course, and Lab Improvement (CCLI) Review Panels
  • National Center for Innovation and Invention in Academia (NCIIA) Review panels

Review papers for

  • IEEE Antennas and Wave Propagation Society
  • IEEE Microwave Theories and Techniques Society
  • IEEE Electromagnetic Compliance Society
  • IEEE Components Manufacturing and Packaging Technology Society, Part B
  • IEEE Education Society
  • American Society of Engineering Education Journal
  • Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal
  • International Journal of Numerical Modeling; Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields
  • Physics Review
  • Selected Professional Society Participation
  • Senior Member of Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)
  • Antennas and Wave Propagation Society (APS)
  • APS administrative council member
  • APS representative to Society for Sociological Impact of Technology
  • APS Education Committee
  • 7Microwave Theories and Techniques Society
  • Electromagnetic Compliance Society
  • Components Manufacturing and Packaging Technology Society
  • Education Society
  • 2000 Denver Section Chair for IEEE APS/MTT/IGARSS chapter
  • 1995-2010 Faculty Advisor for IEEE student group, Boulder, CO
  • Member of American Society of Engineering Education
  • Member of Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society
  • Member of NSF CampMODE Research Center
  • 2010, 2012, 2013 Colorado Learning with Technology (COLT) conference
  • 1996, 1997, 1998 Participant in Teaching and Technology Conference, Golden, CO.
  • 1998 Participant in National Center for Innovation and Invention in Academia Teaching Creativity Workshop.
  • 1997 Participant in North Carolina’s Center for Success in the First Year Seminar on First Year Students and Success, Denver, CO.
  • 1994 Participant in Honors Seminar on Teaching and Learning, Boulder, CO.

Selected Conference Activities

  • Moderator of conference session for Colorado Advanced Software Institute (CASI), Fall 1994
  • Organized and Chaired Sessions at the National Radio Science Institute conference, January 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 Boulder, CO
  • Organized and Chaired sessions at Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Annual
  • Conference, March, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 Monterey, CA
  • Organized and Chaired sessions at the IEEE Antennas and Wave Propagation Annual Conferences, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2014
  • Chaired technical session for the International National Radio Science Institute General Assembly, Lille, France, August 1996
  • On the Organizing Committee for The Eighth Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, Tucson, Arizona, June 1998.
  • Chaired technical session for the International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, Torino, Italy, September 1999
  • Chaired Session "A College Based Program for Enhancing Teaching and Learning" at Frontiers in Education Conference 1999, 10-13 November, Puerto Rico
  • Judge for the "Helen Dryer Best Paper Award" at Frontiers in Education Conference 1999
  • Judge for “Helen Plant Award” for Frontiers in Education Conference 2000-2003
  • Speaker for Women Succeeding in Academia, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011

Selected Mentoring

  • Mentoring a National Science Foundation, Post Doc Fellow Math Engineering and Technology Education (PSFMETE) Post Doc Education Researcher (Julie Chang) 1/1998-12/1999
  • Mentoring National Science Foundation GK-12 Fellows Students funded with full RA, performs 20 hours a week of outreach in the Boulder High School Honors Physics Program (Alex Settle) 8/1999-5/2000
  • Casey Middle School Science ( 2 students ) 8/2000 – 8/2001
  • Casey Middle School Science ( 2 students ) 8/2001 – 6/2002

Selected University of Colorado Activities

  • 1994 Diversity Planning Committee, College of Engineering.
  • 1994-1999 Member of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Lab Task Force.
  • 1994-2001 Member of Assessment Committee for Integrated Teaching and Learning Lab.
  • 1995-current Participate in High School Honors Institute, Engineering Open House, and Engineering Career Day for High School Women.
  • 1995-2002 Speaker for University of Colorado’s Faculty Teaching Excellence Program (FTEP) Seminars
  • 1995 Dean’s Committee on Strategic Prioritization, College of Engineering.
  • 1995-2002 University of Colorado Speakers Bureau; talks to K-12 Schools on “Understanding Engineering”.
  • 1996 Dean’s Committee on Multidisciplinary Education, College of Engineering.
  • 1996 Member of Information Technology and Social Science Research Group.
  • 1996-2012 Faculty Advisor to IEEE student chapter.
  • 1997-current Women in Engineering, Faculty Advisory Board, College of Engineering.
  • 1998 Co-developer and facilitator for the minority Success Institute.
  • 1999-2000 Dean's Committee on Strategic Planning, College of Engineering.
  • 2001-current Electrical Engineering representative on the Boulder Faculty Assembly.
  • 2006-10, resource 2010-2014 Boulder Faculty Assembly Budget and Planning committee.
  • 2000-current member of the assessment committee, College of Engineering.
  • 2000-current member of the Awards/Scholarship Committee, College of Engineering.
  • 2000-2005 BFA representative to the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Public Access.
  • 2010-current Organizing Committee for the Accessing Higher Ground (AHG) Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference.
  • 2009-2013 BFA representative to the Diversity Committee.
  • 2009-2011Organizing committee (and co-chair 2010) for the November 2-day Chancellors Diversity Conference. University of Colorado at Boulder.
  • 2009-2011 Member of the Faculty Council representing the BFA.
  • 92009-current Chair the Elizabeth Gee Award Selection Committee given out by the faculty council women's committee.
  • 2010-current Fund Raiser for the Faculty Council women's committee Women Succeeding in Academia Symposium.
  • 2005-2014 Civic Engagement Awards committee for the Institute for Ethics and Civil Engagement.
  • 2005-2014 Ethics and Civic Engagement Educational Programs awards committee for the Institute for Ethics and Civil Engagement.
  • 2010-current Chair of the CCW awards committee.
  • 2010 ODECE external advisory committee meeting.
  • 2010-2011 University system wide Diversity Awards/Grants Committee.
  • 2010-2011 Campus committee for the student climate survey.
  • 2011-2013 Campus committee evaluating the Information Technology on campus.
  • 2012-2014 Involved in the campus discussion about the external Title IX review, involved in the actual review and involved in the hiring of the new Title IX director.