His teaching interests are in product and process development, and systems engineering. Marcos’ research focuses on the Integration of Lean Principles into Systems Engineering, the Integration of Systems Engineering Principles into Life Cycle Assessment and Electrophotographic-based Additive Manufacturing. Marcos serves as the Faculty Associate to the Provost for AALANA Faculty, where he is focused on faculty retention. He is also the Graduate Program Director for the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department. Marcos is the current VP of Programs on the Executive Committee of the National GEM Consortium. GEM is a national non-profit providing programming and full fellowships to support increasing untapped domestic human capital at the graduate level in STEM fields.