Through her research and educational design work, she explores the practices and pathways of engineers and educators to support educational change and design projects. She teaches courses in human-centered and educational design, as well as engineering modeling and analysis. Alexandra holds a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech, an M.S. in systems engineering from the University of Virginia, and a B.S. in aerospace engineering from MIT. She was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and her doctoral research aimed to foster students’ abilities to think more broadly about complex systems design and consider stakeholder needs in design. As a post-doctoral scholar, she conducted research in future faculty development and collaborated with colleagues to design programming for educators interested in improving student learning in their courses.