Coax Autonomous Shuttle Systems

Program

MS 13 Graduate Industrial Design

German-born Jan Lienhard entered the ArtCenter Grad ID program with extensive experience in product and transportation design, including significant internships at Porsche Design Studio in Zell am See, Austria, and BMW Group Designworks USA in Newbury Park, California. His theses projects, informed by an awareness of business needs and technological forecasts, targeted high-income traveling business professionals on two fronts: he conceived a service to eliminate the need for luggage by delivering clothes and other amenities directly to travelers’ hotel rooms, and he imagined a new method of business-class local air commuting featuring a fleet of autonomous helicopters that would allow executives to significantly reduce their commute times, with the option of conducting in-flight meetings. After earning his MS, Lienhard became a consultant and designer for Booz Digital, moving on to become an industrial designer at BCG Digital Ventures inside the Boston Consulting Group, where he is now lead strategic designer.