As a CTE Faculty Liaison, Samar Mohamed helps instructors in the Faculty of Engineering integrate technology into their teaching through innovative learning activities. She also serves as guide for instructors to access other CTE resources. Prior to joining the Centre for Teaching Excellence Samar worked as a Post Doctoral Fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She received both her MSc and PhD from the University of Waterloo. Outside of her work, Samar enjoys spending quality time with her husband and her four wonderful daughters.

Presentations

• A common principle for course delivery, a diversity of interactions: stories from the trenches, Jane Holbrook, Mary Power and Samar Mohamed, Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo – Cohere Blended Learning Conference, Guelph, 2011

Poster Presentations

• "Blended Course Design and Development - An Engineering Teaching Team’s Experience", Opportunities and New Directions, Waterloo, 2011.

Publications

• S.S. Mohamed (2006), “Integrated Feature Analysis for Prostate Tissue Characterization Using TRUS Images”, Ph.D. Thesis, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, ON., Canada.
• S.S. Mohamed (2002), “Automatic Frequency Dependent Network Equivalence Using MAPLE”, MASc. Thesis, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, ON., Canada.

Awards, Scholarships, Fellowships

• NSERC IRDF Fellowship
• UW/NSERC Graduate Scholarship
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship
• Faculty of Engineering (FOE) award
• President's Graduate Scholarship

Patent

• Method for Mass Candidate Detection and Segmentation in Digital Mammograms,  (European Patent No. EP08103868.9)