Conilee Gay Kirkpatrick (born 1948) is an American electronics engineer.

Education and career

Kirkpatrick graduated from

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in 1969 and earned a PhD at the

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University ...

in 1974, with the dissertation ''Photoluminescence from Ion Implanted Silicon''. She worked for

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technology in the 1970s, and became director of advanced technology implementation for

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's Microelectronics R&D Center. As a senior scientist at

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, she developed an

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on an

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, to be used as an

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. She later became a vice president of HRL Laboratories, and a member of the National Materials Advisory Board of the

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. Along with her professional work in engineering, Kirkpatrick has been active in mentoring Southern California middle-school girls in engineering.

Recognition

Kirkpatrick was named a

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in 1998, "for leadership in development and manufacturing of III-V electronic materials and devices and their application to military and commercial systems".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kirkpatrick, Conilee 1948 births Living people American electronics engineers American women engineers Washington University in St. Louis alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni Fellow Members of the IEEE