Professor Altringer Eagle holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and master's degrees in multiple disciplines. Her academic career began at Harvard engineering, where she spent 10 years as faculty developing innovative approaches to teaching and learning at the intersection of design, engineering, and the arts to tackle complex problems.
In 2021, she was appointed full Professor of the Practice and Founding Director of the joint Brown engineering + Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Master of Arts in Design Engineering (MADE) Program. There, she developed an innovative and intensive pedagogical approach designed to support both individual and cohort-level interdisciplinary learning that quickly became a leading program for both universities.
In fall 2025, she was named the Inaugural Distinguished Professor of Design and Director of the Design Initiative at Dartmouth (DIAD) and she serves as an advisor to Princeton engineering's Keller Center. Altringer Eagle is interested in the integration of data and design to enhance human experience and collaborative intelligence approaches to important issues of our time. She is currently writing a book for Penguin Publishing Group about how experts develop fluency in flavor design and was selected for a 2025 data arts residency by UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
Eagle has developed notable projects for Kering, Uber, General Mills, and more. At Piaggio Fast Forward, she led design research for their award-winning human-helper cargo robots, earning multiple patents in the process. With her interdisciplinary background spanning behavioral science, product design, architecture, and fifteen years of engineering education, Professor Altringer Eagle is a dedicated lifelong learner across creative and technical disciplines. She takes a collaborative, experiential approach to training the next generation of thoughtful leaders and empowering them to play an active role in designing a better future.
