MahboobehMahmoodi received her B.Sc. (2010) and M.Sc. (2014) degrees in Electrical Engineering from Shahed University and Khaje Nasir Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, respectively. She joined the Applied Microwave Nondestructive Testing Laboratory (amntl) at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Fall 2015 as a graduate research assistance to purse her Ph.D. degree. Her research areas of interest are Nondestructive testing and evaluation (NDT&E), embedded sensors, FSS, material characterization, reconfigurable antennas, reflectarray antennas, near-field communications.