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Nicholas Baine, Ph.D., P.E. is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at Grand Valley State University (GVSU).  Since 2015, he has served on the board of the North Central Section of the American Society of Engineering Educators in the positions of Director, Vice-Chair, and Chair. In addition, he hosted the section conference at GVSU in 2019 as the conference chair. His expertise is in the design of electrical control systems and sensor data fusion. As an instructor, he specializes in teaching and designing 1st year engineering courses as well as control systems. While at Wright State University, he was part of the group that developed a new model to teach mathematics to engineering students. As a faculty member at GVSU, he is working with a team to develop innovative 1st year engineering curricula and is actively researching tuition equity, exploring the disparate impacts of tuition structures and seeking solutions to address them.



Todd Schweisinger is the director of the undergraduate mechanical engineering degree program at Clemson University.  He transferred from a local community college in his hometown of Southern California to earn a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of California, Irvine and then earned a MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University.  Dr. Schweisinger is a professional engineer, licensed in South Carolina, and he currently serves ASEE as the immediate past president of the Southeastern Section.
Todd has a passion for engineering education and has been a member of ASEE since 2009. He began his service to the Southeastern Section in 2014 in the Research Division and has since had the privilege to volunteer with other outstanding leaders of the section while he subsequently has chaired the Research Division, Publications and Promotions Unit, as well as the Programs Unit, before serving as President of the Section at the 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference. He attended the 2017 Zone II Conference in Puerto Rico and charted new territory serving as technical program chair for the 2021 ASEE-SE conference that was held all online, for the first time, in response to the pandemic.  Todd is active in undergraduate research, has hosted a workshop, moderated a roundtable discussion, moderated sessions at the section conference, and he is passionate about bringing his undergraduate researchers to the section conference every year to present in the poster session where they have been recognized with awards.
Dr. Schweisinger is an educator, practitioner, and administrator.  At Clemson he developed a student machine shop program to provide students access to machine tools, developed a training program for graduate laboratory assistant instructors in the Mechanical Engineering Department, and serves as the faculty advisor for the preeminent student makerspace in the state which he co-founded in 2015 at Clemson University to support making activities across campus.  He served as ABET Chair for the Mechanical Engineering Department program review in 2023. He advocates for all students, having served as a diversity education presenter for the Clemson One program, and he has mentored students participating in university autism spectrum programs (CUSP), and pell-eligible first-generation student programs (SOAR). 
Dr. Schweisinger is a patent inventor (# 7347003 B2) and has consulted as an engineering expert in litigation cases.  He has served on the Clemson University Faculty Senate, and he is the founding president of a national, non-profit, professional society of student shop managers that advocates for student safety (myssmc.org). He partnered with Clemson University Housing and Dining as the Faculty Director for the Residents in Science and Engineering living and learning community where he was awarded the James E. Bostic Housing Partner of the Year award in 2014. In 2018, Dr. Schweisinger was awarded the Dr. Ted G. Westmoreland Award for Faculty Excellence at Clemson University, presented annually to honor a distinguished faculty member who has made exemplary contributions to undergraduate student success at Clemson University, and he was inducted into Blue Key Honor Society in 2019.



Nicholas Baine, Ph.D., P.E. is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at Grand Valley State University (GVSU).  Since 2015, he has served on the board of the North Central Section of the American Society of Engineering Educators in the positions of Director, Vice-Chair, and Chair. In addition, he hosted the section conference at GVSU in 2019 as the conference chair. His expertise is in the design of electrical control systems and sensor data fusion. As an instructor, he specializes in teaching and designing 1st year engineering courses as well as control systems. While at Wright State University, he was part of the group that developed a new model to teach mathematics to engineering students. As a faculty member at GVSU, he is working with a team to develop innovative 1st year engineering curricula and is actively researching tuition equity, exploring the disparate impacts of tuition structures and seeking solutions to address them.



Todd Schweisinger is the director of the undergraduate mechanical engineering degree program at Clemson University.  He transferred from a local community college in his hometown of Southern California to earn a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of California, Irvine and then earned a MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University.  Dr. Schweisinger is a professional engineer, licensed in South Carolina, and he currently serves ASEE as the immediate past president of the Southeastern Section.
Todd has a passion for engineering education and has been a member of ASEE since 2009. He began his service to the Southeastern Section in 2014 in the Research Division and has since had the privilege to volunteer with other outstanding leaders of the section while he subsequently has chaired the Research Division, Publications and Promotions Unit, as well as the Programs Unit, before serving as President of the Section at the 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference. He attended the 2017 Zone II Conference in Puerto Rico and charted new territory serving as technical program chair for the 2021 ASEE-SE conference that was held all online, for the first time, in response to the pandemic.  Todd is active in undergraduate research, has hosted a workshop, moderated a roundtable discussion, moderated sessions at the section conference, and he is passionate about bringing his undergraduate researchers to the section conference every year to present in the poster session where they have been recognized with awards.
Dr. Schweisinger is an educator, practitioner, and administrator.  At Clemson he developed a student machine shop program to provide students access to machine tools, developed a training program for graduate laboratory assistant instructors in the Mechanical Engineering Department, and serves as the faculty advisor for the preeminent student makerspace in the state which he co-founded in 2015 at Clemson University to support making activities across campus.  He served as ABET Chair for the Mechanical Engineering Department program review in 2023. He advocates for all students, having served as a diversity education presenter for the Clemson One program, and he has mentored students participating in university autism spectrum programs (CUSP), and pell-eligible first-generation student programs (SOAR). 
Dr. Schweisinger is a patent inventor (# 7347003 B2) and has consulted as an engineering expert in litigation cases.  He has served on the Clemson University Faculty Senate, and he is the founding president of a national, non-profit, professional society of student shop managers that advocates for student safety (myssmc.org). He partnered with Clemson University Housing and Dining as the Faculty Director for the Residents in Science and Engineering living and learning community where he was awarded the James E. Bostic Housing Partner of the Year award in 2014. In 2018, Dr. Schweisinger was awarded the Dr. Ted G. Westmoreland Award for Faculty Excellence at Clemson University, presented annually to honor a distinguished faculty member who has made exemplary contributions to undergraduate student success at Clemson University, and he was inducted into Blue Key Honor Society in 2019.