Mark Swaney
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Mark Swaney is the Green Party of Arkansas
Green Party of Arkansas
The Green Party of Arkansas is the state party organization for Arkansas of the Green Party of the United States.With the November 2008 election of Richard Carroll as representative for the 39th District in the Arkansas House of Representatives, the Arkansas Green Party gained its first ever state...

 State Coordinator and founder of the Arkansas Committee
Arkansas Committee
The Arkansas Committee was a political registered student organization at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States, from 1989 to 1992...

. Mark also works for the University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas
The University of Arkansas is a public, co-educational, land-grant, space-grant, research university. It is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with very high research activity. It is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System and is located in...

 as an Office of Technology Licensing staff member.

Swaney has 25 years experience as a mechanical engineer. He graduated from the University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas
The University of Arkansas is a public, co-educational, land-grant, space-grant, research university. It is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with very high research activity. It is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System and is located in...

 with his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...

in 1980. He then moved to Florida and worked for six years as a design engineer in the defense industry, sepcializing in avionics and satellite communication equipment. In 1986 Mark moved back to Arkansas to work as a design and manufacturing engineer near Fayetteville.

Mark attended the University of Arkansas in 1990 to begin a graduate program in Mechanical Engineering. He specialized in Finite Element Analysis and graduated with his Master's degree in 1992. After graduating, Mark went to work for the University in the Arkansas Center for Technology Transfer in the College of Engineering. In 2005, he joined the Technology Licensing Office and handles various aspects of technology assessment, validation, patenting, marketing and licensing.
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