Tomasz Arciszewski

Title: Professor and Chair
EMail: tarcisze@gmu.edu
Department: Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering
Phone: 703-993-1513
Website: http://www.civil.gmu.edu/tomasz.htm

Dr. Arciszewski is currently involved in f research on evolutionary design and infrastructure security. In the first area he investigates 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. He is also involved in the development of design and planning tools based on evolutionary computation. In the area of infrastructure security, he works on the blast protection and mitigation for structural systems.

Presently, the research of Dr. Arciszewski is supported mainly by grants from the NASA Langley Research Center and the GMU's Critical Infrastructure Protection Program. He has also received research grants from the National Research Foundation, 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, he 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 Commitee of the ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing and Information Technology.

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 and at the Warsaw University of Technology. 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.