The Army Research Laboratory’s Dr. Melanie W. Cole has been selected as recipient of the 2008 Society of Women Engineers’ Achievement Award, the Society’s highest honor. Assigned to ARL’s Weapons and Materials Research Directorate, Dr. Cole is a research scientist and Team Leader for the Active Thin Films Team. She formulates and executes research programs and long-term research directions related to the
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development and understanding of such electronic materials as thin film ferroelectrics, shape memory alloys, piezoelectrics, III-V and wide bandgap semiconductors, and metallization technologies.
Dr. Cole and her team design, synthesize, fabricate, and characterize materials systems, engineering them to meet requirements for next-generation electronic, microwave, optoelectronic, and high power device applications.
She has authored 99 journal publications and three book chapters; delivered nearly 200 presentations at national and international scientific meetings; and holds seven patents and three patent disclosures. Her research has won four Army Research and Development Achievement Awards.
An ARL employee since 1988, Dr. Cole holds a BS in geology from the University of Miami, an MS in geochemistry from Iowa State University, and a Ph.D. in oceanography/geochemistry from the University of Rhode Island. |
