Lynette Madsen
Lynnette D. Madsen is a materials scientist and grant officer. Educated in Canada, she works in the US as a program director for the National Science Foundation, on topics including ceramics, international activities, and engineering education.[1]
Education and career
[edit]Madsen studied electrical engineering and psychology as an undergraduate at the University of Waterloo. After a master's degree in electronics from Carleton University, she went to McMaster University for doctoral study in materials science,[2] finishing her Ph.D. in 1994.[1]
After working for ten years at Nortel, and postdoctoral research at Linköping University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,[3] she joined the National Science Foundation as a program director in 2000.[2] She is also a visiting professor of Materials Science & Engineering at Cornell University.[3]
Books
[edit]Madsen is the author of Successful Women Ceramic and Glass Scientists and Engineers: 100 Inspirational Profiles (Wiley, 2016).[4] With Erik B. Svedberg, she is co-editor of Materials Research for Manufacturing: An Industrial Perspective of Turning Materials into New Products (Springer, 2016).
Recognition
[edit]Madsen is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (2015), of the American Vacuum Society (2017), of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2017), of ASM International (2021), and of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (2022).[3]
She is a 2013 recipient of the University of Waterloo Engineering Alumni Achievement Medal for Professional Achievement, and was named to the McMaster University Alumni Gallery in 2018.[3]
She was the 2013 recipient of the Junipero Serra Award of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers,[5] and the 2015 recipient of the ABET Claire L. Felbinger Award for Diversity and Inclusion, "for her role in establishing best practices to engage members of underrepresented groups, initiating recognition for mentors, and supporting minority graduate students and career-life balance".[6] In 2016, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society gave her their Ellen Swallow Richards Diversity Award.[5] The Materials Research Society gave her their Impact Award in 2017, and she is a 2020 recipient of the Acta Materialia Inc. Hollomon Award for Materials & Society.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Lynette Madsen '94", McMaster University Alumni, retrieved 2024-09-27
- ^ a b "Lynnette Madsen", Staff directory, National Science Foundation, retrieved 2024-09-27
- ^ a b c d e "Lynnette Madsen", Directory, Cornell Materials Science & Engineering, retrieved 2024-09-27
- ^ Lyons, Karen Swider (September 2017), "Review of Successful Women Ceramic and Glass Scientists and Engineers", MRS Bulletin, 42 (9): 684, doi:10.1557/mrs.2017.201
- ^ a b "Lynnette Madsen", Diversity in the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Professions, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, 2016, retrieved 2024-09-27
- ^ Claire L. Felbinger Award for Diversity and Inclusion, ABET, retrieved 2024-09-27
- Living people
- American materials scientists
- American women engineers
- Canadian materials scientists
- Canadian women engineers
- Women materials scientists and engineers
- University of Waterloo alumni
- Carleton University alumni
- McMaster University alumni
- United States National Science Foundation officials
- Fellows of the American Ceramic Society
- Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering