Mark Baldwin earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Engineering Sciences from Purdue University. Before entering academia, he served in the United States Air Force as a missileman and worked at NASA in charge of ascent flight design for the Space Shuttle. Mark is alone one of the early founders of the computer game industry having written, programmed, designed, directed, and/or produced over 30 commercial award-winning computer games including “Game of the Year”. Mark has been teaching in academia since 2004. Mark’s expertise is in the field of simulations and modeling, and the computer entertainment industry.