Mark Schwendau

Mark S. Schwendau (1954-) was born in Evanston, Illinois, and grew up in Barrington, Illinois. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Industrial Education and a Masters Degree in Industrial Management from Northern Illinois University. For forty years Mark taught drafting, design, and Computer-Aided Drafting and Design (CADD) in Illinois schools, colleges, prisons, and was the first teacher of same at Northern Illinois University. He is widely considered as one of the first CADD educators of Illinois and received many awards for his accomplishments including twice being a recognized as one of 18 finalists for Illinois Teacher of the Year in 1985 and 1986. In 1990 he was recognized as Illinois Drafting Teacher of the Year by the I.D.E.A. In 1991 he was recognized as the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) as their Outstanding Young Alumni.

As a personal interest he has begun songwriting in his later life. He has a song he wrote for his wife on their wedding day for sale on Amazon, "Little Miss Right".