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Paul Snyder Chair of Transportation Design

Automotive designer and alumnus (’87 Transportation Design) Paul Snyder’s experience spans four continents and encompasses both exterior and interior development for a number of automotive brands, including Ford, Lincoln, Renault, Honda and Acura.

For Ford Motor Company, he designed exterior and interior solutions for the Taurus/Sable and Explorer production vehicles and later oversaw projects for the Taurus X, Ford Five Hundred, Ranger, and Flex production vehicles.

Prior to joining CCS, Snyder worked at Honda Research and Development in California where he was Assistant Chief Designer, overseeing production and concept projects for the Civic, Accord, Crosstour, Odyssey, Tokyo Motor Show EV-Ster Concept and Honda AC-X Concept theme vehicles, as well as a 2013 Acura RL vision theme.

Snyder previously taught transportation design and visual communications at Pratt Institute as well as a range of undergraduate and graduate courses at Wayne State University and CCS. In addition to his work as car designer, Snyder is an accomplished figure painter, sculptor, and collagist, having earned a Master of Fine Arts degree cum laude in fine art and cultural studies from the New York Academy of Art in New York City, where he has also shown his work

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Hojoon Kang

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Cleber Vieira

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Jason White

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Scott Anderson

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Heather Anger

Clay Model Coordinator

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Brook Banham

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Peter Davis

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Cecile Giroux

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Chris Hall

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Steve Hung

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Robert Jablonski

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Joaquin Kiley

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Chang-il Lee

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Carrie Marchand

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Craig Metros

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J. Kelly Payne

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Carolyn Peters

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Derek Speer

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Brian Stoeckel

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David Stoller

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David Stoller

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Alexander Tannen

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Brian Yu

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Jesse Diephuis

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