Currently the Dean of the University of Minnesota's College of Design, Carol Strohecker inaugurated the roles of Vice Provost at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Director at the Center for Design Innovation, a multi-campus research center of the University of North Carolina system. She co-founded the SEAD network for Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Design, spawned through grants from the US National Science Foundation.Previously she was Principal Investigator of the Everyday Learning research group at Media Lab Europe, the European partner of the MIT Media Lab. Prior to MLE, Strohecker worked at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories and in the Human Interface Group of Sun Microsystems.She earned the PhD of Media Arts and Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 and the Master of Science in Visual Studies from MIT in 1986. She has served MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences as a Lecturer and as a Presidential Nominee on the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee.Strohecker's collaborative work in interactive media tools and methods has resulted in four US patents. Her awards also include Fellowships with the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, the US National Endowment for the Arts, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.