Beth Altringer Eagle

Overview

Beth Altringer Eagle is a Distinguished Professor of Design and Director of the Design Initiative at Dartmouth. Eagle's research explores collaborative intelligence and the integration of data and design to enhance human experience. She is currently writing a book for Penguin Publishing Group on how experts develop fluency in flavor design and was selected for the 2025 data arts residency at UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. Prior to joining Dartmouth, Eagle was the Professor of Practice in Design Engineering at Brown University's School of Engineering and founding director of its joint Master of Arts in Design Engineering program with Rhode Island School of Design, where she is also a faculty affiliate. In addition to appointments at Brown and RISD, she is a faculty associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and an advisor to Princeton Engineering's Keller Center. Previously, she spent over a decade on the faculty at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where she co-developed interdisciplinary programs with Harvard's design and business schools. 

Eagle was named to Thinkers50 Radar list of emerging global thought leaders in 2018 and throughout her career, she has worked with numerous global brands, including Uber, IKEA, Kering, and General Mills, on high-impact design projects. She directed research for Piaggio Fast Forward's award-winning human-helper robots that earned multiple patents.

Eagle earned a PhD in the psychology of design from Cambridge University and completed her visiting scholarship in design at Stanford, and a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT. She also holds a master's degree in architecture from the University of Cape Town, a business degree in arts management from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Barcelona.

Education

• PhD, Behavioral Sciences & Design, University of Cambridge
• M.Arch, Architecture (emphasis on Sustainability), University of Cape Town
• BA/ BS, Psychology & Economics, Arizona State University

Courses

News

Beth Altringer Eagle Named Distinguished Professor in Design and Director of the Design Initiative at Dartmouth
Aug 19, 2025