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Kathleen Melde

  • Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Inclusion, College of Engineering
  • Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

PDF icon Kathleen Melde's Full CV (PDF)

Kathleen L. Melde (formerly Virga) joined the faculty of UA Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1996 with extensive experience in modeling, fabrication and measurement of the performance of antennas, antenna arrays, high-density microwave circuits, and high-speed packaging interconnects. Prior to the University of Arizona, from 1985 to 1996, she worked in the Radar Systems Group at Hughes Electronics in California.

Melde is known for her contributions to the design and development of antennas and transmit-receive, or T/R, modules for airborne phased and active arrays. She has more than 90 publications, 5 U.S. patents, and has been an expert witness and consultant in the area of RF circuits and antennas. Her current projects include tunable RF front ends for cognitive radio, high-speed electronics packaging, on-chip antennas, and antennas for wildlife tracking.

  • In 2010, she received the Excellence at Student Interface award from the UA College of Engineering, followed two years later by a Teaching Fellowship from the college. Melde has been an invited keynote speaker for such occasions as California State University, Northridge's School of Engineering commencement and the conference on the Electrical Performance of Electronic Packages and Systems, or EPEPS. She was formerly an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

Degrees

  • PhD: electrical engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 1996
  • MS: electrical engineering, California State University, Northridge, 1987
  • BS: electrical engineering, California State University, Long Beach, 1985

Teaching Interests

Antenna engineering, microwave engineeringĀ and electrical packaging

Research Interests

Antennas for computing, wildlife trackingĀ or wireless communications, microwave circuit design, and electrical packaging

Textbooks/Most Significant Publications

K.L. Virga (Melde) and Y. Rahmat-Samii. "Generation of Wideband Antenna Performance by Z and Y Matrix Inerpolation in the Method of Moments." Ultra-Wideband Short-Pulse Electromagnetics III, pp. 185-196, 1997.

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