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Beth Altringer Eagle teaches design at Dartmouth, where she directs the Design Initiative at Dartmouth.
Her work is about how people learn to perceive — how professional noses learn to smell, chefs learn to taste, designers learn to see, teams learn to notice what they are missing — and how to measure and teach perceptual learning. She is writing Flavor Fluency (Penguin, 2027–28), a book and a notation system for how flavor fluency develops; she makes bespoke data visualizations, artworks and products; and runs the Problem Genome, a public collection of briefs on unsolved problems for students choosing what to work on. She was founding director of the Brown–RISD Master of Arts in Design Engineering and taught design at Harvard's engineering school for ten years; earlier she helped design Piaggio's Gita robot and Kering's first environmental profit-and-loss. She has a Ph.D. from Cambridge and has been a Faculty Associate of the Berkman Klein Center since 2013.
