Carlotta Berry

• PhD, Vanderbilt University, 2003
• MS, Wayne State University, 1996
• BS, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993
• BS, Spelman College, 1992

• 2024 Forbes 50 over 50 in Innovation
• 2024 IEEE Education Society Distinguished Lecturer
• 2024 The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Visiting Scientist
• 2023 Grace Hopper Celebration Educational Innovation Abie Award
• 2023 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Undergraduate Teaching Award
• 2022 Indiana Business Journal Women of Influence
• 2022 Society of Women Engineers Distinguished Engineering Educator
• 2022 ASEE Electrical and Computer Engineering Division Distinguished Engineering Educator
• 2022 Open-Source Hardware Association Trailblazer Fellow sponsored by Sloan Foundation
• 2021 Lawrence J. Giacoletto Endowed Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 2021 ASEE Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Constituent DEI Award – Black In Engineering 2021 ASEE Fellow Class 2021 TechPoint MIRA Award, TechPoint Foundation For Youth Bridge Builder Award 2020 FIRST Indiana Robotics Game Changer Award
• 2020 30 Women in Robotics You Need To Know About – Ada Lovelace Day - robohub.org
• 2020 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Best Paper in Multidisciplinary Division
• 2020 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Service Award in Computers in Education Division
• 2020 Reinvented Magazine Interview of the Year Award, On Purpose and Passion
• 2018 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Best Paper Award in Computers in Education Division
• 2018 Women and Hi Tech Leading Light Award, You Inspire Me
• 2016 Inspiring Women in STEM – Insight into Diversity
• 2014 FIRST Robotics Competition Crossroads Regional Volunteer of the Year

• Multidisciplinary Robotics

• Human-Robot Interaction

• Educational Robotics

• Open-Source Robotics

• Diversifying Engineering Education Editor, Computers in Education Journal, 2012-2015

• Helped create a multidisciplinary minor in robotics

• Created Rose Building Undergraduate Diversity (ROSE-BUD) scholarship and professional development program Recruitment, retention, mentoring and professional development of women and minorities in science and engineering

Books

Berry, C.A., Marshall, Brandeis H. (eds.)  Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning.  McGraw-Hill Education 2024

Berry, C.A.,   Mobile Robotics for Multidisciplinary Study: Synthesis Lectures on Control and Mechatronics, Morgan and Claypool, April 2012, 95 pages.  ISBN:1608457982  here

Journals

Berry, C.A., “ Lessons Learned Flipping a Mobile Robotics Course”,   Journal of Online Engineering Education, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2018.

Op-Eds

Berry, C.A., “ Freeing robotics and AI from bias”,   Science, August 26, 2021

Conferences

Berry, Carlotta A., Alejandro Marcenido Larregola, Katie Collins, and Josiah McGee. “Robotics for the Streets: Open-Source Robotics for Academics.” In 2023 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2023.

Lewin, Gregory C., Rui Li,   Carlotta A. Berry, James A. Mynderse, Vikram Kapila, and Michael A. Gennert. “Workshop on Unified Curriculum and Course Design for Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering.” In 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. 2023.

Adams, J. D.,   Berry, C. A., Cohen, R., Delgado, A., Faherty, J. K., Gonzales, E., … & Silveyra, P. (2022).   # Change: How Social Media is Accelerating STEM Inclusion.  arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.03245.

Lotfi, Nima, Dave Auslander, Luis A. Rodriguez, Kenechukwu C. Mbanisi, and Carlotta A. Berry. “Use of Open-source Software in Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering Education-Part II: Controller Implementation.”  Computers in Education Journal 13 (2022).

Lotfi, Nima, Dave Auslander, Luis A. Rodriguez, Kenechukwu C. Mbanisi, and Carlotta A. Berry. “Use of Open-source Software in Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering Education-Part I: Model Simulation and Analysis.”  Computers in Education Journal 12, no. 3 (2021).

Berry, C. A., Bowden, A., Cox, M. F., Reid, T. N., & Long, L. L. (2021, July),   Black in Engineering: How the Social Justice Efforts of Black Academics Affect Change  Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. 10.18260/1-2–36751

Pannier, C.,   Berry, C., Morris, M., and Zhao, X., “ Diversity and Inclusion in Mechatronics and Robotics Education“,   Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Virtual, June 22-26, 2020.

Lotfi, N., Mbanisi, K., Auslander, D.M.,   Berry, C.A., and Majid, M., “ Promoting Open-source Hardware and Software Platforms in Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering Education“,   Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Virtual, June 22-26, 2020.

Berry, Carlotta A., Michael A. Gennert, and Reck, Rebecca M., “ Practical Skills for Students in Mechatronics and Robotics Education“,   Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Virtual, June 22-26, 2020. [Best Paper in Multidisciplinary Division]

Wei, Z. and   Berry, C.A., “ Design of a Modular Educational Robotics Platform for Multidisciplinary Education”,   Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Conference and Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, June 24-27, 2018. [Best Paper in Computers in Education Division]

Berry, C.A  and Fenn, J., “ STEM Success Stories: Strategies for women and minorities to thrive, not just survive, in engineering”,   Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference, Crystal City, VA, April 29 – May 2, 2018.

Winck, R.C., Jern, A.,   Berry, C., and Shibberu, Y., “ Can an Engineering Competition Catalyze Curriculum Innovation?”,   Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Illinois Indiana Section Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, March 24, 2018.

Wollowski, M.,   Berry, C., Winck, R., Jern, A., Voltmer, D., Chiu, A., and Shibberu, Y., “ A Data-driven Approach Towards Human-robot Collaborative Problem Solving in a Shared Space”, AAAI Fall Symposium, arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.00274, 2017.

Berry, Carlotta A., “ Robotics education online flipping a traditional mobile robotics classroom”   Proceedings of 2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2017.

Galuzzi, V.,   Berry C.A., Shibberu, Y., “ A Multidisciplinary Pilot Course on the Internet of Things: Curriculum Development Using Lean Startup Principles”,   Proceedings of the 2017 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) 124th Annual Conference and Exposition, Columbus, OH, June 25 – 28, 2017.

• Mobile Robotics
• Industrial Robotics
• Human-Robot Interaction
• Controls