Sound and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Washington. She teaches in the First-Year Engineering Program at Purdue as well as the Interdisciplinary Engineering program. Her research interests include engineers' uses of mathematical thinking in conceptual design as well as qualitative research in engineering education.
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