Mark Bedillion

Mark Bedillion is a Teaching Professor and Director of Academic Operations in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He joined the university in fall 2016 as an associate teaching professor. Prior to this, he served as an associate professor at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology from 2011 to 2016. His teaching interests include mechatronics and control systems at both undergraduate and graduate levels. His research interests encompass distributed manipulation, control applications in data storage, control applications in manufacturing, and STEM education. His professional background includes a seven-year career at Seagate Technology, where he worked on research and development of servo-control architectures.

Mark Bedillion is a Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in Control Systems, Robotics, and STEM Education. His research focuses on the design and analysis of control systems with complex poles and zeros, loop shaping, and servo architectures for high areal density data storage. He also explores systems thinking skills in undergraduate engineering education, emphasizing the integration of systems thinking and systems engineering concepts into mechanical engineering courses. His work includes the development of hardware platforms and educational tools to enhance student learning and practical application in mechanical engineering design and control systems.