Dr. Tomasz Arciszewski

Professor, Structural and Design Engineering

Dr. Tomasz Arciszewski is a Professor in the Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering Department in the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering at George Mason University.

Dr. Arciszewski is currently involved in two areas of research: evolutionary design and infrastructure security.  In the first area he investigates various design paradigms, utilizing both single- and multi-population evolution.  His studies are in the context of a large class of engineering design and planning problems, including structural design and homeland security.  In the second area, infrastructure security, he works on the development of a conceptual and computational foundation for building tools for co-evolutionary design for blast of steel structural systems.  This research involves studies of behavior under blast of steel frames with various types of connections. 

Presently, the research of Dr. Arciszewski is supported mainly by grants from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.  He has also received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the NASA Langley Research Center, from various state funding organizations, and from manufacturing companies, including Daimler Chrysler Corporation.

Dr. Arciszewski has published more than one hundred thirty research and technical articles in various journals, books, and conference proceedings.  He is also an inventor, with patents in the areas of tall buildings and spaces structures, obtained in three countries (Canada, Poland, USA). 

In the professional arena, Dr. Arciszewski is active in the American Society of Civil Engineers, where he recently served as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Council on Computing and Information Technology.  He currently chairs the Executive Committee of the ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing, which has members on all continents.  The Center is focused on the development of educational materials on computing in civil engineering for worldwide distribution (the first five teaching modules are available for downloading at (www.asceglobalcenter.org) and is planning to conduct various international research projects.  He also serves as a corresponding member on the ASCE International Activities Committee, which mission is to plan and organize international activities for the entire Society.  Also, he is a corresponding member of the ASCE Body of Knowledge II Committee, which develops the definition of the civil engineering body of knowledge as the necessary and sufficient knowledge to practice civil engineering. Within this Committee, he is active with three sub-committees, including those on globalization, design, and history and heritage.

At George Mason University, Dr. Arciszewski teaches courses in the areas of structural engineering and of design and inventive engineering.  He has graduated seven Ph.D. students, including two at George Mason University.

Dr. Arciszewski earned his B. Sc. and M. Sc. (Summa Cum Laude) in Structural Engineering in 1970, and his PhD. in Technical Sciences in 1975, all from the Warsaw University of Technology. Before joining George Mason University in 1994, he was an Associate Professor at Wayne State University for 10 years. Prior to 1984, he held teaching positions at the University of Nigeria (Department of Civil Engineering) and at the Warsaw University of Technology (Department of Metal Structures). He has a formal background in the areas of structural engineering and mechanics with hands-on design experience in steel space structures and in general structural engineering gained in Poland and Switzerland.

In 2004, Dr. Arciszewski received the "ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering Award."  Last year, he received the "2006 Intelligent Computing in Engineering Award" from the European Group for Intelligent Computing in Civil Engineering during an international conference in Ascona, Switzerland.