Carlotta Berry — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Recipient of the 2023 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award and the 2022 Society of Women Engineers Distinguished Engineering Educator Award.
Serves as Professor and Dr. Lawrence J. Giacoletto Endowed Chair for Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Founder and co-director of the Rose Building Undergraduate Diversity (ROSE-BUD) Program.
Co-created the first multidisciplinary minor in robotics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Author of the textbook "Mobile Robotics for Multidisciplinary Study."
Previously served as President of the Technical Editor Board for the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Computers in Education Journal.
Holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, a master's from Wayne State University, and bachelor's degrees from Spelman College and Georgia Institute of Technology.

Biography

Carlotta Berry, Ph.D., is a professor and the Dr.

Lawrence J. Giacoletto Endowed Chair for Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT). At RHIT, she was part of the faculty team that established the institution's first multidisciplinary minor in robotics.

Her research interests encompass robotics education, human-robot interaction, and strategies to increase the representation of marginalized and minoritized populations in STEM fields.