hillm@ieee.org
The University of ArizonaPh.D. Electrical Engineering, May 2001.
Dissertation title: Reconfigurable and Micromachined Microwave Structures
Major: Electrical Engineering - Electromagnetics
Minor: Split -Electrical Engineering - Analog Circuits (Microelectronics)
Business and Public Administration - Entrepreneurship Click Here for more informationM.S. Electrical Engineering, December 1996, GPA 3.75.
Thesis: Active Microwave Phased Arrays for Medical Hyperthermia: Device Selection, Characterization and Implimentation of their Drive Circuits.
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Cum Laude, May 1994, GPA 3.66.
RF / Microwave system design
Spherical near-field chamber measurements
Silicon micromachining / silicon fabrication
Microwave circuit design
Analog circuit design
Digital circuit design
Computer interfacing
Circuit board layout / construction
Microwave and low frequency test equipmentMJB3 Mask aligner / standard clean room equipment
Technology based business plan development
Ansoft HFSS, HP ADS, Sonnet, PSPice, PADS Power PCB, Orcad Layout, LEDIT, Xilinx Foundation, Microstation Modeler, Mathematica, Unix, Windows, Visual Basic, Pascal, Fortran, Assembly (8051)
4/02-PresentSr. Electrical Packaging Engineer, Electrical Analysis and Design, Intel Corporation Chandler, Arizona.4/01-3/02New Product Hardware Development Manager, Electrical Engineering, Galtronics, Phoenix, Arizona.4/99-4/01Research Assistant, The University of Arizona Microwave Laboratory, Tucson, Arizona.1/97-4/99Principal Engineer, Medical Contouring Corporation, Tucson, Arizona8/94-1/97Design Engineer, Medical Engineering Consultants Inc., Tucson, Arizona.
8/94-1/97Teaching Assistant, The University of Arizona Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tucson, Arizona.5/93-8/93
Research Assistant, The Center for Electronic Packaging Research.SPS Engineering Co-Op III, Motorola Semiconductor Product Sector, Chandler, Arizona.5/92-8/93Intern(Summers only) Honeywell Industrial Automation and Control Division, Phoenix, Arizona.1/91-1/92Undergraduate Research Program, The University of Arizona Department of Chemistry, Tucson, Arizona.
Tau Beta Pi, National Engineering Honor Society.
Eta Kappa Nu, National Electrical Engineering Honor Society.
The University of Arizona Honors Program.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Chairman, ECE Graduate Student Activities Committee.
Member: Department Head Search Committee, The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Arizona, 1996-1997.
Presenter: ECE Faculty / Staff Member of the Year Award, Commencement Ceremony, 1997, 1999, 2000.
Honorable Mention, The University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Business, Moot Corp Business Plan Competition, March 1998.
Best Written Plan, University of Oregon New Ventures Competition, March 1998.
Finalist, BLR Data Business Plans Competition, April 1988.
Associates Scholarship, Carl Eller Center for the Study of the Private Market Economy, The College of Business and Public Administration, The University of Arizona, 1997.
Graduate Academic Resident Scholarship, The Deparrrtment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Arizona, 1998, 2000.
Controlled Defect Microwave Bandgap Crystal Experiments,National Radio Science Meeting, The University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, January 2000.Reconfigurable electromagnetic bandgap structures: modeling and experiments, Richard W. Ziolkowski, Michael J. Hill,and John Papapolymerou, Joint IEEE AP-S/URSI B Session 77, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, July 2000.
Realization of an Active Narrow Band Filter with Electronically Controlled Defects in a Microwave Bandgap Structure, Michael J. Hill, Richard W. Ziolkowski, and John Papapolymerou, Proceedings of the: 30th European Microwave Conference, October 2000.
A High Performance K-Band Diplexer using High-Q Micromachined Cavities, Michael J. Hill, John Papapolymerou and Richard W. Ziolkowski, Proceedings of the 30th European Microwave Conference, October 2000.
Simulated and Measured results from a Duroid based planar MBG cavity resonator filter, Michael J. Hill, Richard W. Ziolkowski, and John Papapolymerou, Microwave and Guided Wave Letters, December 2000.
Reduced Cost, Miniaturized Microwave Devices for Wireless Communications, Michael J. Hill, Christophe Tavernier, Hsiuan-Ju Hsu, Jason Ives, Cheah Yoke Wai, Richard W. Ziolkowski, and John Papapolymerou, The University of Arizona Student Showcase, November 2000.
Electronically controlled microwave bandgap filter structures, Michael J. Hill, Richard W. Ziolkowski, and John Papapolymerou, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 78, no.7, February 2001, pp. 1008-1010.
High-Q Micromachined Resonant Cavities in a K-band Diplexer Configuration, Michael J. Hill, John Papapolymerou and Richard W. Ziolkowski, IEE Proceedings - Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, October 2001.
A Planar X-Band Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) 3-Pole Filter, H. Hsu, Michael J. Hill, John Papapolymerou and Richard W. Ziolkowski, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 255-257, July 2002.
A Duroid Based Planar EBG Cavity Resonator Filter with Improved Quality Factor, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp 67-20, 2002.
Variations in package radiation due to changes in on-die and on-package capacitance, 53rd Electronic Components and Technology Conference, New Orleans, LA, May 27-30, 2003.
Capacitor Parameter Extraction - Techniques and Challenges, Intel Technology Symposium, San Jose, CA, Sept 16-17, 2003.
Click below to download a printable version of this resume in Microsoft Word format.
Back
to the main page