Carlotta A. Berry

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, WSU
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Carlotta A. Berry is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.   She is the 2021-2024 Dr. Lawrence J. Giacoletto Endowed Chair for Electrical and Computer  Engineering.  She  has  a  bachelor’s  degree  in  mathematics  from  Spelman  College,  bachelor’s  degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, master’s in electrical engineering from Wayne State University, and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. She is one of a team of faculty in ECE, ME and CSSE at Rose-Hulman to create the first multidisciplinary minor in robotics. She is the Co-Director of  the  NSF  S-STEM  Rose  Building  Undergraduate  Diversity  (ROSE-BUD)  Program  and  advisor  for  the  National Society of Black Engineers.  She was previously the President of the Technical Editor Board for the American  Society  of  Engineering  Education  (ASEE)  Computers  in  Education  Journal.  She  is  also  a member of the 2021 ASEE fellow class.

Dr. Berry was selected for the 2021 TechPoint Foundation for Youth Bridge Builder award as part of the TechPoint  Mira  awards.  She  is  also  one  of  30  Women  in  Robotics  You  Need  to  Know  About  2020  by  robohub.org, Reinvented Magazine Interview of the Year Award on Purpose and Passion, FIRST Indiana Robotics Gamechanger Award 2020, Women and Hi Tech Leading Light You Inspire Me Award 2018 and Insight Into Diversity Inspiring Women in STEM. She is mentor for her daughter’s Girl Scouts FLL and VEX robotics team, Gamer Girlz. During 2020, she worked with colleagues around the world to start two non-profit organizations, Black In Engineering and Black In Robotics. They have a mission to bring awareness to systemic racism and inequity in STEM, build community, advocate for diversity, equity, inclusion and connect  with  allies  and  sponsors.  Her  research  interests  are  in  robotics  education,  interface  design,  human-robot interaction, and increasing underrepresented populations in STEM fields.  She has a special passion for diversifying the engineering profession by encouraging more women and underrepresented minorities  to  pursue  undergraduate  and  graduate  degrees.  She  feels  that  the  profession  should  reflect  the world that we live in in order to solve the unique problems that we face.