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Tulane University.
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Gerardo Melendez
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During his civilian career with the United States. Army, which began in 1983 as an electronics engineer for the United States. Army Communications and Electronics Command in New Jersey, Meléndez was a strong advocate of incorporating commercial technological advances in military applications, including equipment based on consumer products generated by companies such as Apple Incorporated. and Microsoft. He also served as chief of the Automatic Target Recognition Team for the Product Manager Tactical Endurance Synthetic Aperture Radar, as well as chief of the Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate’s Battle Space Identification Branch. He is a graduate of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical engineering in 1980, and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he obtained a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1983, and he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering at Drexel University in 1993.
He subsequently earned a master’s degree in strategic studies from the Army War College.
• Department of the Army Fellowship (1987–1993).
Achievements
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Department of the Army Fellowship (1987–1993) • United States Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center Director Award for Technical Excellence (1989) • United States Army CECOM Leader of the Year Award (1998) • Executive Excellence in the Military awarded by Major General Nick Justice at the 2010 Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference (2010) • Keynote speaker at the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Conference, Washington, District of Columbia (2010).
