Bollinger Motors is supporting the next generation of designers by making a sustained investment in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design. Founded in 1906, Carnegie Mellon's College of Fine Arts is home to one of the nation's longest-running and most respected industrial design programs — a place where rigorous making and serious thinking have always gone hand in hand. Bollinger Motors is bringing a new dimension to that legacy: a dedicated focus on mobility and transportation design, embedded directly into the curriculum and built to last.
Bollinger Motors Design Studies is an endowed fund supporting a faculty-led mobility and transportation studio within Carnegie Mellon University's product design curriculum. It covers professor support, materials, fabrication, software, and visiting critics — whatever the work demands. The brief and the pedagogy belong entirely to the faculty. The long-term ambition is to establish transportation design as a formal concentration within CMU's integrated design and engineering program.
The Bollinger Motors Design Scholarship is an annual merit scholarship awarded to one product design student at Carnegie Mellon University whose work demonstrates exceptional engagement with mobility and transportation as a design discipline. Recipients are identified through faculty review. Robert Bollinger participates in the final jury. Endowed for permanence.