Design News

Carnegie Mellon Racing, a student-run electric racing team that designs and builds an entire open-wheel electric racecar every year, recently won multiple awards over this summer. The team’s awards include taking first place in the electric category at the Formula Hybrid competition and placing 5th overall, as well as second in both design and efficiency, and took home the Cummins Innovation Award from Formula SAE Michigan.

A copy of the MoonArk, a cultural payload headed to the moon in late 2022, has just been added to the permanent art collection of the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum.

Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design is honored to announce our four newest recipients of a PhD in Transition Design. Sofía Bosch Gómez, Hajira Qazi, Chun Zheng, and Alex Wright all successfully defended their doctoral theses in April 2022.