Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana, has announced that Carlotta Berry, Ph.D., has earned awards from two higher education organizations and is participating in the Open Source Hardware Association’s new Trailblazers Fellows Program.

According to Rose-Hulman, Dr. Berry will receive the 2023 Undergraduate Teaching Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for her contributions to robotics education, and leadership in creating a platform to diversify science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Berry also received the 2022 Distinguished Educator Award from the American Society of Engineering Education’s (ASEE) Electrical and Computer Engineering Division. The honor is presented annually to recognize an individual who has shown evidence of vision and contribution to electrical and computer engineering education.

As the Dr. Lawrence J. Giacoletto Endowed Chair for Electrical and Computer Engineering, she is among the first group of educators participating in the Trailblazers Fellows Program organized by the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA). Her research is focused on educational mobile robotics, human-robot interactions, and interfaces.

According to the press release, she will use a $50,000 grant to incorporate open-source hardware resources within academia while working with Rose-Hulman students to create an open-source low-cost mobile robot platform that can be used for outreach, education, and research.

Berry will document the process of robot design, assembly, controls, and navigation on the OSHWA repository, social media, YouTube, maker sites, and her website.

A member of Rose-Hulman’s faculty since 2006, Berry was named a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) in 2021 and is a past president of the editorial board for ASEE’s Computers in Education Journal.

Since 2020, Berry has helped start two advocacy organizations to build community and connection among higher education allies. She also co-founded Rose-Hulman’s Building Undergraduate Diversity (RoseBUD) program, which encourages students from marginalized groups to pursue STEM careers.

Berry is the author of “Mobile Robotics for Multidisciplinary Study,” published by Morgan & Claypool. She has a distinguished record of developing curricular materials in robotics engineering and has been named one of 30 Women in Robotics You Need to Know by robot hub dot org.

Berry was the TechPoint Foundation for Youth’s 2021 Bridge Builder Mira Award recipient. She also received a Leading Light Award from Indianapolis’ Women & Hi-Tech organization, earned FIRST Indiana Robotics’ Game Changer Award, and been featured in Reinvented magazine.