last updated February 2, 2013
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
Engineering Education Virginia Tech expected 5/2013
Dissertation Title: Characterizing Student Attention in Technology-Infused Classrooms
Using Real-time Active Window Data
Chair: Dr. Christopher Williams
M.S.
Computer Engineering Mississippi State University 12/2004
Thesis Title: Visualization of Computer-Modeled Forests for Forest Management
Chair:
Dr. Robert Moorhead
B.S.
Computer Engineering Mississippi State University 5/2002
Magna Cum Laude
Senior Project: Interchangeable PlayStationTM Controllers and Architectural
Models for an Immersive Virtual Environment
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Dean’s Teaching Fellow, August 2010 – present
Engineering Education
Department, Virginia Tech
Presently conducting research investigating how
students’ classroom computer use is related to student-centered, technology-infused
pedagogy. My research directly impacts
instructional practice in Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering.
Research Assistant, part-time, Fall 2012
College of Engineering, NSF
TUES grant (PI: Glenda Scales), Virginia Tech
Due to my expertise in technology-infused
pedagogy and in conducting classroom observations of student computer use, I
was asked to join the research team part-time in order to improve observation reliability.
Graduate Research Assistant, Summer 2011
Engineering Education
Department, NSF CAREER grant (PI: Lisa McNair), Virginia Tech
Conducted preliminary research to aid
engineering departments that were planning to integrate electronic portfolios
(ePortfolios) into their graduate programs in Fall 2011
Research Associate II, July 2009 – April 2010
Research Associate I, Dec 2003 – June 2009
Geosystems Research
Institute, Mississippi State University
Developed numerous desktop visualization and
immersive virtual reality applications through multiple grants funded by NOAA,
NASA and the DoD
Graduate Research Assistant, Aug 2002 – Dec 2003
Visualization, Analysis, and
Imaging Laboratory, Mississippi State University
Worked collaboratively with the College of
Forestry to develop and run a user study validating forest management measurements in the CAVETMUndergraduate Research Assistant, June 2001 – Aug 2001
High Performance Computing
Laboratory, University of Delaware
Awarded a position through the CRA Distributed
Mentor Project (cra-w.org); I was paired with Dr. Lori Pollock and my summer
project supported a computer science doctoral student’s research
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Apr 1999 – Dec 2000
The Institute for Signal and
Information Processing, Mississippi State University
Segmented
and transcribed significant portions of the Switchboard corpus, and developed
comprehensive documentation for the ISIP Foundation Classes, a C++ library upon
which ISIP’s custom speech recognition system was built
CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE
Course Coordinator and Lecturer, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012,
Spring 2013
ENGE 1104: Exploration of
the Digital Future, Virginia
Tech, Engineering Education Department
Lecturer and Laboratory Instructor, Spring 2011
ENGE
1104: Exploration of the Digital Future, Virginia
Tech, Engineering Education Department
Laboratory Instructor, Fall 2010
ENGE 1024: Engineering Explorations, Virginia
Tech, Engineering Education Department
Co-instructor, Fall 2009 and Spring 2010
ECE
1002: Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mississippi State University,
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
Guest
Lecturer, March 2005 and March 2006
ECE 4990/6990: Scientific Visualization, Data Mining Lecture, Mississippi State University,
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
Lecturer, November 2005, November 2006, and November
2008
GIS Day, Mississippi State University,
Geosystems Research Institute Outreach
OTHER
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Assessment Specialist (Consultant), June 2012 – September 2012
TIBCO Software, Inc.
Outreach Coordinator, May 2009 – April 2010
Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department, Mississippi State University
AWARDS AND HONORS
Graduate
Engineering Education Consortium for Students (GEECS) Fellow, 2012
One
of 30 students selected to attend the NSF Engineering Education Awardees
Conference
Engineering
Education Ambassador, 2011-2012
One of three students selected to represent to
represent the Virginia Tech Eng. Ed. Department
Virginia
Tech Graduate School Travel Grant, 2011
Awarded a
competitive supplement for conference travel and presentation
College
of Engineering Dean’s Teaching Fellow, Virginia Tech, 2010-2013
Competitive
three-year fellowship with 28 total awards from 2005-2011
Most Outstanding
Graduate Woman Award, Mississippi State, 2003Awarded
to one female graduate student per a year
Joseph Barrier Graduate Engineering Fellowship, Mississippi State, 2003-2004
CRA-W Distributed Mentor Project Awardee, 2001
Matches
female undergraduates with female professors for a summer of research and mentoring
NSF Computer Science, Engineering, and
Mathematics Fellow, Mississippi State, 2000-2002
Mississippi Eminent Scholars Grant, 1998-2002
Herin-Hess Engineering Scholarship, Mississippi
State, 1998-2002
PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS
American Society for
Engineering Education (ASEE)
Institute for Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Tau Beta Pi, Engineering
Honor Society, inducted May 2002
Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Computing
and Information Honor Society, inducted April 2002
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Outreach Activities
- Assisted
in numerous prospective graduate student visits (2010 – present)
- Served
as a judge for FIRST LEGOTM League Robotics competitions (2010,
2012)
- Gave
multiple engineering presentations and virtual reality demonstrations to local
middle- and high-school students, including to the Society of Women Engineers
summer camps and to advanced high school prospective students (2003 – 2010)
- Gave
multiple VIP virtual reality demonstrations to NSF program officers,
congressional staffers, and faculty candidates (2003 – 2009)
- Appeared
in multiple recruiting and advertisement videos, including a Mississippi
Development Authority commercial (April 2008), and a Mississippi State College
of Engineering high school recruitment video (May 2008)
Professional Society Activities
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ASEE
Annual Conference (2012, 2013)
o
FIE Annual
Conference (2011)
o
FIE
Annual Conference (2011)
o
ASEE Virginia
Tech Student Branch Chair (2012 – 2013)
o
ASEE Virginia
Tech Student Branch Vice Chair (2011 – 2012)
o
Tau Beta
Pi – Mississippi Alpha Student Branch Advisory Board (2002 – 2006)
o
Tau Beta
Pi – Mississippi Alpha Student Branch Cataloger
(2002 – 2006)
o
Upsilon
Pi Epsilon Mississippi State Student Branch President (2002 – 2003)
o
Miss.
State Engineering Student Council Representative (2002 – 2003)
o
IEEE
Student Branch Secretary (2002-2003)
o
IEEE
Student Branch Chair (2001-2002)
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
Panel member, November 2012
Reframing the “e” in
ePortfolios.
Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning Southeast
Conference (AAEEBL SE), Clemson, SC
Interactive session, November 2012
Institution cultural
considerations for reframing ePortfolios: Examples from engineering. Association for Authentic,
Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning Southeast Conference (AAEEBL SE),
Clemson, SC
Seminar, November 2012
Who’s
paying attention in the laptop classroom? An investigation of real-time student
attention. Virginia Tech Engineering Education
Department
Presentation to faculty, April 2012
An overview of engineering
education and Virginia Tech’s Ph.D. program. Mississippi State University
Interactive faculty development session, October 2011
What is engineering education and why do we need Ph.D.s in it?
South Dakota School of Mines
Seminar, October
2003
Visualization of Computer-Modeled Forests for Forest
Management. Mississippi State
University Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Symposium
6 paper
presentations at conferences (publication numbers* 5, 7, 9, 10, 12,
13, and 16 – 18)
7 poster
presentations (publication numbers* 20, 22 – 26, 29, and 30)
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
1)
Mohammadi-Aragh,
M.J. & Williams, C. B. (2013
– in press). Students' perceptions of Tablet PC interaction techniques. Computers
in Education, 23(2).
(Paper was also presented at American Society of Engineering Education Annual
Conference, San Antonio, TX, June 10-13, 2012 – publication #5)
2)
Louis,
R., Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Brown, P., Mann, K., Carrico, C., Cross, K.,
Janeski, J., & McNair, L. (in press). Assessing graduate engineering
programs with eportfolios: A comprehensive design process. Advances in Engineering Education, accepted June 2012.
3)
Fujisaki,
I., Evans, D.L., Moorhead, R.J., Irby, D.W., Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Roberts,
S.D. & Gerard, P.D. (2008). Lidar-based forest visualization using
immersive virtual environment technology. Forest Science Journal, 54(1),
1-7.
4)
Fujisaki
I., Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Evans, D.L., Moorhead, R.J., Irby,
D.W., Roberts, S.D., Grado, S.C., & Schultz, E.B. (2007). Comparing forest
assessment using computer visualization and videography. Journal of
Landscape and Urban Planning, 81, 146-154.
Refereed Conference Papers
5)
Mohammadi-Aragh,
M. J., & Williams, C. B. (2012).
Students' perceptions of Tablet PC interaction techniques. American Society of Engineering Education
Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, June 10-13, 2012. (Following the conference, paper was
accepted to Computers in Education Journal – publication #1)
6)
Louis,
R., Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., & Lee, W. (2012). Wait … There is a
Ph.D. in Engineering Education? The First Year Experience of Three Students in
an Engineering Education Department. American
Society for Engineering Education Southeast Section Meeting (ASEE-SE) 2012,
Mississippi State, MS, April 2012.
7)
Mohammadi-Aragh,
M. J., & McNair, L. (2011).
Work in progress: Effect of departmental culture on eportfolios for graduate
engineering programmatic assessment. Frontiers in Education (FIE) 2011, Rapid
City, SD, October 2011.
8)
Irby,
D.W., Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Moorhead, R.J., & Amburn, P. (2009).
Improving the understanding of hurricanes: Visualizing storm surge. IEEE
Oceans 2009, Biloxi, MS, October 2009.
9)
Mohammadi-Aragh,
M. J. & Jankun-Kelly, T.J.
(2005). MoireTrees: Visualization and interaction for multi-hierarchical
data. Eurographics – IEEE Symposium on Visualization, Leeds, United
Kingdom, June 1-3, 2005, p. 231-238.
10) Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Fujisaki, I., Irby, D.W., Evans, D. L., Moorhead,
R.J., & Roberts, S.D. (2005). Visualization of Computer-Modeled Forests for
Forest Management. Eurographics – IEEE
Symposium on Visualization, Leeds, United Kingdom, June 1-3, 2005, p.
183-190.
11) Fujisaki, I., Evans, D. L., Moorhead, R. J.,
II, Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Irby, D., & Roberts, S. D. (2004). Human
Factor Integration into the Development of a Realistic Tree Rendering System
Based on LiDAR Remote Sensing. IS&T/SPIE
16th Annual Electronic Imaging Symposium. San Clara, CA. vol. 5291.
12) Martin, J.P., Gopal, G., Mohammadi-Aragh, M.
J., & Boggess, L. (2003). Text entry
via PalmTM in an immersive virtual environment. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics 47th Annual Meeting,
Denver, CO.
13) Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Moorhead, R.J., Irby, D.W., Evans, D.L., Fujisaki,
I., & Roberts, S.D. (2003).
Rendering realistic pine trees from LiDAR data in a virtual forest. Proceedings of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Anchorage,
AK.
14) Fujisaki, I., Evans, D.L., Moorhead, R.J.,
Irby, D.W., Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., & Roberts, S.D. (2003). LiDAR based forest visualization: Modeling
forest stands and user studies. Proceedings
of the American Society of Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing, Anchorage, AK.
Non-Refereed Conference Papers
15) Irby, D.W., Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Moorhead,
R.J., & Amburn, P. (2009). Improving
the understanding of hurricanes: Visualizing WISDOM and UAS. NOAA
NGI Annual Meeting, Mobile, AL, May 2009.
16) Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Martin, J.P., Ziegeler, S., & Moorhead,
R.J. (2008). Visualization of time-varying features. HPCMP
Users Group Conference, Seattle, WA, July 13-17.
17) Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Irby, D., Moorhead, R. J., II, &
Schumeyer, R. (2006). CWO Data Mining. DoD HPC Users Group Meeting. Denver, CO,
June 26-29, 2006, p. 280-282.
18) Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Moorhead, R.J., Ziegeler, S., & Gaither,
K. (2004). FeatureView: a 3D microstructure extraction and
visualization tool. 3-D Materials Science Symposium, Materials Science and Technology '04,
TMS Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, September 26-29.
White Papers
19) Mohammadi-Aragh, M.J. (2007). Data mining with Sapphire and FClib. User Productivity Enhancement &
Technology Transfer (PET) Online Knowledge Center (OKC).
Posters
20) Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Stephenson, J., Song, K., Wasko, C., and
Finn, T. (2012). Tablet PCs in undergraduate general engineering: The untold
story. Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy, February 2012, Blacksburg,
VA.
21) Funderburk, W. K., Kirkland, B. L., Brown,
L.R., Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., & Schmitz, D.W. (2010). 3D imaging of
micron-scale permeability pathways and biofilm surfaces within sandstone pore
networks using CT X-ray. Proceedings of
the Southeastern Microscopy Society, 30, p. 22.
22) Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Irby, D., Moorhead, R.J., & Amburn, P.
(2009). The UAS and WISDOM visualization system. NOAA NGI Annual Meeting, May 2009, Mobile, AL.
23) Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Irby, D., Amburn, P., & Moorhead, R.
J. Improving the understanding of
hurricanes: Visualizing storm
surge. NOAA NGI Annual Meeting, May
2009, Mobile, AL.
24) Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Irby, D., Sanyal, J., Amburn, P., Moorhead,
R. J., II, Zhang, S., & Wu, K. (2008). Visualization techniques for
improving public understanding of catastrophic events. NGI Annual Meeting, May
2008, Biloxi, MS.
25) Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Irby,
D., Zhang, S., & Moorhead, R.J. (2007). Visualization techniques for
improving public understanding of catastrophic events. IEEE
Visualization 2007 Proceedings Compendium, October 2007, pp. 34-35.
26) Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Irby, D., Zhang, S., & Moorhead, R.J.
(2007). Visualization techniques for improving public understanding of
catastrophic events. Northern Gulf
Institute (NGI) Annual Meeting, May 2007, Biloxi, Mississippi.
27) Irby, D., Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Fujisaki,
I., Moorhead, R.J., Evans, D.L., & Roberts, S.D. (2005). Forestry visualization based on LIDAR remote
sensing. Applied Visualization Conference, April. (Best Graduate Student Poster
Award)
28) Cai, S., Du, Q., Moorhead, R.J., Mohammadi-Aragh,
M. J., & Irby, D.W. (2005). Noise-adjusted principle component analysis
for hyperspectral remotely sensed imagery visualization. IEEE Visualization 2005
Proceedings Compendium, pp. 119-120.
29) Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J. & Jankun-Kelly, T.J. (2004). Visualizing and interacting with multi-tree
hierarchical data. IEEE Visualization 2004 Proceedings Compendium, pp. 119-120.
30) Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Moorhead, R.J., Irby, D.W., Fujisaki, I., Evans,
D.L., & Roberts, S.D. (2003). Computer-generated
forests from LIDAR remote sensing.
Mississippi State Engineering Week Poster Competition, Mississippi State
University, February 16-22.
Submitted/Under Review
31) Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J. & Williams, C. B. (under review). Validation of active window as a proxy for
student attention in technology-infused classrooms. Manuscript submitted for journal publication
on February 1, 2013.
32) Mohammadi-Aragh, M.J. & Williams, C.B. (under review). Student
attention in unstructured-use, computer-infused classrooms. Manuscript submitted to ASEE 2013 on January
7, 2013 (abstract accepted).
33) Mohammadi-Aragh,
M.J. & Louis, R. (under
review). Surviving your first large lecture
with attentive and engaged students. Manuscript submitted to ASEE 2013 on January
7, 2013 (abstract accepted).
34) Mohammadi-Aragh,
M.J. & McNair, L. (under review). Graduate engineering
student perceptions of eportfolio and the role of departmental culture. Manuscript
submitted to ASEE 2013 on January 7, 2013 (abstract accepted).
35) *Amelink,
C., Scales, G., Watford, B., Farquhar-Caddell, D., & Mohammadi-Aragh,
M.J. (under review). Defining and
measuring innovative thinking among engineering undergraduates. Manuscript
submitted to ASEE 2013 on January 7, 2013 (abstract accepted). *Final author order TBD.