Mark Bedillion
Teaching Professor, Director of Academic Operations, Mechanical Engineering
Mark Bedillion joined Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in fall 2016 as an associate teaching professor. Bedillion’s prior academic experience was as an associate professor at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology from spring 2011 to spring 2016. His primary industrial experience comes from a seven-year career at Seagate Technology, where he worked on research and development of servo-control architectures.
Bedillion’s teaching interests include mechatronics and control systems courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. His research interests include distributed manipulation, control applications in data storage, control applications in manufacturing, and STEM education.
Education
2005 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
2001 MS, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
1998 BS, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Media mentions
2022 Faculty Awards announced
The 2022 Engineering Faculty Awards winners have been announced.
Carnegie Mellon University
Engineering professors named teaching fellows
BME’s Rosalyn Abbott, MechE’s Mark Bedillion, and CEE’s Gerald Wang have been named Provost’s Inclusive Teaching Fellows. This is awarded to faculty who are working with the Eberly Center to develop new approaches to inclusive and equitable teaching in their classrooms.
Mechanical Engineering
A Tartan aims for the moon
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Mechanical Engineering
There’s no stopping MechE
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