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Urquidi-Macdonald, Mirna

Urquidi-Macdonald, Mirna

Professor Emeritus

Office phone: (814) 863-4217
Office address: 203C Earth and Engineering Sciences Building
E-mail: mxu1@psu.edu

Educational Background

  • Ph.D. (Posdoctoral Fellow), Pierre et Marie Curie Institute, University of Paris VI, Physic-Chemistry of Plasmas, 1975
  • Ph.D. (Graduation with Mention), Plasma Physics, Faculte d’ Orsay, Universite de Paris XI, 1972
  • B.S. (2nd Place of the whole Generation), Physics and Mathematics, ITESM, 1969

Years of Service with Penn State (21 years)

  • July 2000 – Present Professor
  • Aug 1991 – June 2000 Associate Professor

Other Related Experience — Teaching, Industrial, Etc.

  • July 1984 – July 1991 Senior Research Scientist., Business, Stanford research Institute (SRI)-International., Menlo Park, CA
  • Aug 1983 – July 1984 Associate Researcher, Fontana Corrosion Center, OSU, Columbus, Ohio
  • Aug 1980 – Aug 1983 Director of Research on Corrosion of Deep Well, Cerro Prieto Geothermal Power Plant., IIE, Cerro Prieto, Baja California, Mexico
  • Aug 1978 – Aug 1980 Associate Director of the Department of Environmental Impact of the Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant, CFE, Mexico, D. F. Mexico
  • June 1975 – Aug 1978 Assistant Professor, Instituto de Ingenieria, UNAM, Mexico, D. F. Mexico

Recent Principal Publications

  • J. Ai, Y. Chen, Mirna Urquidi-Macdonald, and Digby D Macdonald (Sept 2007) “Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopic Study of Passive Zirconium: Part I. High Temperature, Deaerated Aqueous Solutions Part 2. High Temperature, Hydrogenated Aqueous Solutions,” Journal of Electrochemical Society, 154(1), pp. 43–59.
  • Mirna Urquidi-Macdonald and A. Tewari (2007) “Fuzzy Knowledge Based Model for Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion.,” in proceedings Egyptian Corrosion Society. 26th Annual Conference of the Egyptian Corrosion Society; Al-Ismailia, Egypt, pp. 26, Egyptian Corrosion Society. 26th Annual Conference of the Egyptian Corrosion Society; Al-Ismailia, Egypt, Egyptian Corrosion Society. 26th Annual Conference of the Egyptian Corrosion Society; Al-Ismailia, Egypt.
  • Mirna Urquidi-Macdonald and I. Gonzalez, Eds. (2007) Pharmaco-electrochemistry, ECS Transactions, Vol 3, No. 29.
  • A. Tewari, V. Sambhy, Mirna Urquidi-Macdonald, and A. Sen (Jan 2006) “Quantification of Carbon Dioxide Poisoning in Air Breathing Alkaline Fuel Cells,” Journal of Power Sources, 153(1), pp. 1:10.
  • Y. Chen, Mirna Urquidi-Macdonald, and Digby D Macdonald (Jan 2006) “The Electrochemistry of Zirconium in Aqueous Solutions at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures,” Journal of Nuclear Materials, 348(1), pp. Journal of Nuclear Materials.
  • Digby D Macdonald and Mirna Urquidi-Macdonald (2006) “Chapter 9: “The Electrochemistry of Nuclear Reactor Coolant Circuits,” in book entitled Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry,, Wiley VCH.
  • Mirna Urquidi-Macdonald and A. Tewari (2006) “Mechanistic Interpretation of AC Impedance.,” in proceedings Eighth International Symposium on Advances in Electrochemical Science and Technology (ISAEST-8), pp. 14, National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) Goa, India, Eighth International Symposium on Advances in Electrochemical Science and Technology (ISAEST-8).
  • J. S. Pitt and Mirna Urquidi-Macdonald (Sept 2005) “On Using Electrochemistry to Predict Activity Transport in PWRs,” Transactions – American Nuclear Society, 93(1), pp. 475.
  • Y. Zhang and Mirna Urquidi-Macdonald (June 2005) “Hydrophobic Ionic Liquids based on the 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium cation for Lithium/seawater Batteries,” Journal of Power Sources, 144(1), pp. 191–196.
  • H. Castaneda and Mirna Urquidi-Macdonald (June 2004) “Detecting External Failures in Coated Buried Pipelines: Theoretical Model and Experimental Verification,” Corrosion, 60(6), pp. Corrosion.

Consulting, Patents, and Scientific and Professional Society Memberships

  • ASME International (formerly American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Member (2003 – Present)
  • American Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Member (2003 – Present)
  • Artificial Neural Network Society, Member (1991 – Present)
  • Women in Engineering Society, Member (1991 – Present)
  • Electrochemical Society, Inc. (ECS), Member (1986 – Present)
  • ASM International (formerly American Society of Metals),, Fellow (1985 – Present)
  • National Association of Corrosion Engineers International (NACE), Fellow (1985 – Present)

Honors and Awards

  • National Association of Corrosion Engineers International Fellow, NACE (14 Mar 2006)
  • ASM International (formerly American Society of Metals) Fellow, ASM (2004)
  • Society of Hispanic Professional Engineering Award for service, SHPE (30 Nov 2002)
  • IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Act) Award from NIH (National Institute of Health), NIH (18 June 2000)
  • Penn State Outstanding Woman Faculty Award, PSU (16 Oct 1995)

Recent Institutional and Professional Service

  • Faculty Governing Council of the School of International Affairs, Dickinson School of Law, Penn State University, PSU (Jan 2007 – Dec 2008)
  • College of Engineering Promotion and Tenure Board, PSU (Jan 2007 – Dec 2008)
  • Diversity Advisory Board, PSU (Jan 2006 – Dec 2008)
  • NIH Volunteer, NIH (June 2002 – Dec 2008)
  • Organizer, International Conference on Biocorrosion of Materials, (BIOCORYS 2007), Paris, France (June 11–14, 2007). (June 2007 – Sept 2007)
  • Advisor for the Minority Undergraduate Research Opportunity (MURE) summer program students, MURE (June 2006 – Sept 2007)
  • Symposium Organizer, Biological Nanostructures, Materials and Applications Symposium,, 206th Annual Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Honolulu, Hawaii (October 3–9, 2004) (2004 – Dec 2006)
  • Symposium Organizer, Pharmaco-Electrochemistry Symposium,, 210th Annual Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Cancun, Mexico (October 29-November 3, 2006). (Oct 2006 – Nov 2006)

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