Her primary appointment is in the Graduate Program in Acoustics and she holds a joint appointment with the Architectural Engineering Department. Prior to joining Penn State in 2012, Dr. Vigeant was an assistant professor at the University of Hartford in the Mechanical Engineering Department within the undergraduate Acoustics Program for 4.5 years. She obtained her Ph.D. in Architectural Engineering, focusing on Architectural Acoustics, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2008 and she received a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada in 2003.