Joseph Ballay Center for Design Fusion: Director of the Center

As design expands into various domains ranging from business and engineering to healthcare and public policy, there is a growing excitement and demand for access to design methods and processes across the Carnegie Mellon campus and with a variety of external partners. The School of Design is a global leader for strategic design innovation—for the university and beyond—as the essential and fundamentally cross-functional problem-solving mindset and skill set to meet the challenges of the 21st century. The School is one of the world’s top-ranked design programs, offering degrees at the undergraduate, masters and doctoral levels. The Joseph Ballay Center for Design Fusion extends the reach of the School of Design and serves as the a formal, coordinated design presence on campus to help meet this demand and operate as the central administrative hub for coordinating CMU campus design course offerings, professional education, and sponsored projects and collaborations. Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design seeks a Director to lead the team for the Joseph Ballay Center for Design Fusion. The Joseph Ballay Center for Design Fusion is funded through a generous donation from Joseph Ballay Professor Emeritus, former Head of School, MAYA Design founder, and CMU alumnus. As initial successes corresponding to the aspirations of the Center, the School of Design has provided various course offerings and workshops to constituents across the Carnegie Mellon campus and delivered several professional education engagements with outside organizations. Critically, the center has served as a strategic partner for leadership and major initiatives.Additionally, the School of Design has a long-established history of sponsored and collaborative projects intersecting with faculty research and class/studio instruction that has now been organized through the Center. The new Director of the Design Center will build upon this existing momentum by working closely with the Head of th




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