Carlotta Berry

Carlotta Berry is an American academic in the field of engineering. She is professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She is co-director of the Rose Building Undergraduate Diversity (ROSE-BUD) program.

Carlotta Berry
Alma materSpelman College (B.S.)
Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S.)
Wayne State University (M.S.)
Vanderbilt University (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsRobotics
Education
InstitutionsRose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Tennessee State University

Early life and education

Berry received bachelor's degrees in mathematics (1992) and electrical engineering (1993) through a dual degree program between Spelman College and Georgia Tech. At Georgia Tech she observed the scarcity of female and African-American students and faculty within the engineering program, which sparked her desire to become an engineering professor to encourage greater participation of underrepresented populations in the profession.[1] After graduation, she worked in industry to repay her student loans[2] while concurrently pursuing a masters degree at Wayne State University. She earned her masters in control systems from Wayne State University in 1992, and a year later left industry to pursue a doctoral degree at Vanderbilt University. Berry was part of the Vanderbilt University Intelligent Robotics Laboratory (IRL), and was advised by Kazuhiko Kawamura and Julie Adams. Her doctoral thesis was on human-robot interface development for a mobile robot, specifically the enhancement of the interface through graphical visualization of the robot's short-term memory.[3]

Career and research

Berry is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where her academic interests include educational mobile robotics, human-robot interaction, and recruiting and retention of underrepresented populations in engineering.[4] In 2008, Berry and her colleague Deborah Walter created the Rose Building Undergraduate Diversity (ROSE-BUD) program, which attracts talented female and underrepresented minority students in computer science and electrical, computer, and software engineering through scholarships and other program activities.[5] Berry also worked with a cross-department team of faculty at Rose-Hulman to establish a multidisciplinary robotics minor degree program,[6] for which she continues to serve as co-director. Berry has been a guest speaker at several Women in Engineering outreach events,[7] and she has written articles for the New York Times[8] and ASEE Prism magazine[2] on her experiences as a professor from an underrepresented group. Berry has received several awards for her work increasing diversity in STEM fields, including the Women and Hi Tech Leading Light award[7] and the INSIGHT Into Diversity Inspiring Women in STEM award.[9]

Selected publications
  • Berry, C.A., Remy, S.L. and Rogers, T.E., “Robotics for All Ages: A Standard Robotics Curriculum for K-16,” IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Vol. 23 (2), 40-46, June 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2016.2534240
  • Berry, C.A., Mobile Robotics for Multidisciplinary Study: Synthesis Lectures on Control and Mechatronics, Morgan and Claypool, 2012. https://doi.org/10.2200/S00407ED1V01Y201203CRM004
  • Berry, C.A., “Mobile Robotics: A tool for application-based integration of multidisciplinary undergraduate concepts and research”, Computers in Education Journal, Vol. 1, No. 3., pp. 102-111, 2010. https://peer.asee.org/15642

References
  1. "Alumni Spotlight: Carlotta Berry | School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology". ece.gatech.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  2. Berry, Carlotta (February 2015). "The Power of an Example". ASEE PRISM. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
  3. Berry, Carlotta (May 2003). "Enhancing a Human-Robot Interface Using a Sensory EgoSphere" (PDF). Retrieved September 16, 2020.
  4. "Carlotta Berry | Rose-Hulman". Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  5. "Carlotta Berry Increasing Diversity One Woman at a Time". Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. November 25, 2014. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  6. Squires, Jessica (July 3, 2011). "Rose-Hulman robotics program in demand, awards first minor degrees". Tribune-Star. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  7. Long, Dale H. (November 15, 2018). "Rose-Hulman Professor Carlotta Berry Honored for Inspiring Others in STEM". Tribune-Star. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
  8. Berry, Carlotta A. (2014-11-01). "Opinion | They Call Me Doctor Berry (Published 2014)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  9. "Carlotta Berry Honored for Inspiring Women in STEM". Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. August 18, 2016. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
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