Tomasz Arciszewski, Ph.D.

List of my presentations.

In 2013

In 2012

In 2011

Older presentations are listed below.

(With Catherine Harrison), “Successful Education”, Federal Department of Education, December, 2010.

1. “Renaissance: the Key to Modern Engineering Education, poster presentation, the ASEE Global Colloquium on Education, Singapore, October, 2010.
2. “Theory of Successful Education and Engineering Education,” poster presentation, the ASEE Global Colloquium on Education, Singapore, October, 2010.
3. “Successful Education,” poster presentation, the ASEE Global Colloquium on Education, Singapore, October, 2010.
4. “Successful Department,” poster presentation, the ASEE Global Colloquium on Education, Singapore, October, 2010.
5. “Successful Education,” National University of Singapore, Singapore, October, 2010.
6. “Successful Education,” Singapore University of Technology and Design,  Singapore, October, 2010.
7. “Successful Education. How to Educate Creative Engineers,” GMU Fall for the Book Festival,” Fairfax, September, 2010.
8. With Hou, Y., poster presentation, “Building Design Representation Space: A Heuristic Approach,” International Conference on Design, Computing and Cognition, Stuttgart, Germany, July, 2010.
9. “Successful Education: the Key to Engineering Creativity,” International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCB 2010), Nottingham, UK, July, 2010.
10. “The ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing,” Special Session, International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCB 2010), Nottingham, UK, July, 2010.  
11. Invited, “Engineering Education: A Modern Approach,” Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Kielce University of Technology, Kielce, Poland, June, 2010.
12. Invited, “Successful Education,” Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Kielce University of Technology, Kielce, Poland, June, 2010.
13. Invited, “Bioinspired Design,” Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Kielce University of Technology, Kielce, Poland, June, 2010.
14. Invited, “TRIZ and Directed Evolution,” Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Kielce University of Technology, Kielce, Poland, June, 2010.
15. Invited, “Visual Thinking in Inventive Design,” Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Kielce University of Technology, Kielce, Poland, June, 2010.
16. Invited, “Inventive Design of Flood Walls,” Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Kielce University of Technology, Kielce, Poland, June, 2010.
17. Invited, “Creative Kielce,” Marszalek’s Office, Kielce State (The highest elected official in a state in Poland, the equivalent of a governor in the USA), Kielce, Poland, June, 2010.
18. Invited, “Inventive Engineering, Successful Intelligence, and Visual Thinking,” seminar series on "Systems Integration in Manufacturing Applications,” National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November, 2009.
19. Invited, "Consciousness: Seven Approaches," inaugural Faculty Development Brown Bag seminar series organized by the GMU Center for Consciousness and Transformation, October, 2009.
20. Invited lecture, (with Catherine Harrison), "Visual Thinking in Inventive Design: Three Perspectives," the First International Conference on Soft Computing in Civil and Structural Engineering, Madeira, Portugal, September, 2009.
21. Invited, “The ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing,” The 15th International Workshop of the European Group for Intelligent Computing, Berlin, Germany, June, 2009.
22. Invited, “Successful Education: The Key to Engineering Creativity and Innovation,” Institute for Technology Transfer, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, February, 2009.
23. Invited, “Future of Civil Engineering Education,” Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Houston, TX, November, 2008.
24. Invited, “Bio-Inspiration in Design,” Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, November, 2008.
25. Invited, “Whole Brain Engineering Education,” Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, October, 2008.
26. Invited, “Bio-Inspiration in Design,” Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, October, 2008.
27. “The ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing,” 12th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering,” Beijing, China, October, 2008.
28. Invited, “Successful Civil Engineering Education,” Conference on Intelligent Computing in Engineering, Plymouth, UK, June, 2008.
29. “The ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing,” Conference on Intelligent Computing in Engineering, Plymouth, UK, June, 2008.
30. Invited, “Future of Engineering Education,” Workshop of the Council of Polish Engineers in North America, New York City, April, 2008.
31. (with Kenneth Shelton), “Measuring Innovation in Multi-Components Engineering Systems,” 2nd IFIP Working Conference on Computer Aided Innovation, Michigan, October, 2007.
32. Invited, “Body Armor: Learning Inventive Design Principles from Nature and History,” US AF Research Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, August, 2007.
33. “The ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing,” The ASCE Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July, 2007.
34. “Challenges of Civil Engineering Education,” 24th W78 Conference “Bringing ITC Knowledge to Work,” Maribor, Slovenia, June, 2007.
35. “Evolutionary Design for Blast of Steel Structural Systems,” the 14th European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering Workshop, Maribor, Slovenia, June, 2007.
36. “The ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing,” the General Assembly of the European Group on Intelligent Computing in Engineering, Maribor, Slovenia, June, 2007.
37. “Design Creativity Education,” 2007 Design Creativity Workshop, International Creativity and Cognition Conference, Washington, DC, June, 2007.
38. Invited, "Educating Polish Engineers in the USA," Third Congress of the Polish Engineers in North America, Chicago, Illinois, April, 2007.
39. Invited, “Civil Engineering Crisis,” International Workshop on Reforming Civil and Environmental Engineering Education,” Istanbul, Turkey, October, 2006.
40. “The ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing,” International Workshop on Reforming Civil and Environmental Engineering Education,” Istanbul, Turkey, October, 2006.
41. “Bio-inspiration: Learning Creative Design Principia,” the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, September, 2006.
42. “Knowledge Communication through Conferences: A Knowledge Acquisition Approach,” the 10th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, Workshop on Knowledge Communication through Conferences, Orlando, Florida, July, 2006.
43. “The ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing,” the General Assembly of the European Group on Intelligent Computing in Engineering, Ascona, Switzerland, June, 2006.
44. Invited lecture, “Bio-inspiration: Learning Creative Design Principia,” the International Workshop of the European Group on Intelligent Computing in Engineering, Ascona, Switzerland, June, 2006
45. “The ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing,” the ASCE Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, Montreal, Canada, June, 2006.
46. Invited, “Evolutionary Computation and Infrastructure Security,” annual conference of the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection,” Law School, George Mason University, June, 2006.
47. “Empirical Analysis of Memetic Algorithms for Conceptual Design of Steel Structural Systems in Tall Buildings,” International Conference on Advances in Engineering Structures, Mechanics & Construction, Waterloo, Canada, May, 2006.
48. Invited, “New Directions in Civil Engineering Education: An American Perspective,” Faculty of Civil Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, December, 2005.
49. “The ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing,” The National Science Foundation, Division of International Programs, Washington DC, November, 2005.
50. “The ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing,” George Mason University, October, 2005.
51. Invited lecture, with Kicinger, R., “Structural design inspired by nature,” the Eighth International Conference on the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Rome, Italy, August, 2005.
52. “Emerging Security Patterns: Co-evolution of Terrorist and Security Scenarios,” the Eighth International Conference on the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Rome, Italy, August, 2005.
53. “Generative Representations in Structural Engineering,” The ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, Cancun, Mexico, July, 2005.
54. “The ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing,” The ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, Cancun, Mexico, July, 2005.
55. “The ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing,” The 9th International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, organized by the European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering, Poland, Radziejowice, June, 2005.
56. Invited, “Ph.D. Research in Evolutionary Design for Security at George Mason University,” Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, Warsaw, 2005.
57. “The ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing,” the International Workshop on the Future of Civil Engineering, organized by the ASCE and the Polish Society of Civil Engineers, Warsaw, Poland, June, 2005.
58. Invited, “Proactive Infrastructure Security Systems & Complex Adaptive Systems,” Workshop on Complex Adaptive Systems, organized by DARPA and the Krasnov Institute at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, March, 2005.
59. (with Kicinger, R.), "Proactive security:  From evolutionary approaches to cellular automata," poster presentation, Conference on Public/Private R&D Partnerships in Homeland Security, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, April, 2005.
60. "Improving the Security of Water Distribution Systems Using a Co-evolutionary Approach," poster presentation, Conference on Public/Private R&D Partnerships in Homeland Security, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, April, 2005.
61. Skolicki, Z., Venigalla, M., Arciszewski, T., "Security of Transportation Systems: An Evolutionary Approach," poster presentation, Conference on Public/Private R&D Partnerships in Homeland Security, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, April, 2005.
62. Invited special lecture on the ASCE behalf, “Information Technology in the Context of Innovation and Computation in Civil Engineering, the 3rd Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region, Seoul, Korea, August, 2004.
63. (with Kicinger, R.), “Emergent Designer: An integrated research and design support tool based on models of complex systems,” Workshop on Implementation Issues in Generative Design Systems,  First International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC'04), MIT, Cambridge, MA,  July, 2004.
64. Invited, “Design Research at George Mason University,” Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, August 2004.
65. (with Kicinger, R.), “Emergent Designer," session on "Implementation issues in generative design systems," International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition ’04, Boston, July, 2004.
66. (with Kicinger, R.), "Distributed Evolutionary Design: Island-model based Optimization of Steel Skeleton Structures in Tall buildings," the 10th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Weimar, Germany, June, 2004.
67. (with Khozeimeh, K.), “the ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing and IT, special meeting of the ASCE ExCom of the Technical Council on Computing and IT, Weimar, Germany, June, 2004.
68. (with Wadda, M.M.), "Generation of Terrorist Scenarios for Water Distribution Systems: An Evolutionary Computation Approach," the 11th International EG-ICE Workshop, Weimar, Germany, June, 2004.
69. Invited lecture, “Engineering Creativity: From Design and Inventive Engineering to Evolutionary Designing,” Annual Meeting of Motorola Research Associates, Washington, DC., October, 2003.
70. (with Bronzini, M.), “Synthesis Course Evaluation,” George Mason University, Fairfax, September, 2003.
71. “Proactive Security: A Co-evolutionary Approach,” workshop on Homeland Security, George Mason University, Fairfax, September, 2003.
72. “Evolutionary Computation in Engineering,” Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, June, 2003.
73. “Evolutionary Designing and Engineering Creativity,” Civil Engineering Department, invited seminar, the University of Hong Kong, March, 2003.
74. Keynote address, “IT in Civil Engineering in the 21st Century”, Inaugural Seminar, Centre for Infrastructure and Construction Industry Development, University of Hong Kong, March, 2003.
75. Invited, “Novelty and Evolutionary Design”, Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Japan, February, 2003.
76. Invited, “Infrastructure Security Education,” Plenary Session of the 1st Annual Congress on Infrastructure Security for the Built Environment (ISBE 2002), Washington, November, 2002.
77. Invited Lecture, (with Kicinger, R.), “Co-Evolutionary Design”, 9th Workshop of the European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering, Darmstadt, Germany, August, 2002.
78. (with O'Neill, R.), "Globalization Challenge,", 9th Workshop of the European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering, August, 2002, Darmstadt, Germany
79. Invited lecture, "World Trade Center Attack: An Engineering Perspective," Military University of Technology, October 2001, Warsaw, Poland.
80. "World Trade Center Attack: An Engineering Perspective," George Mason University, October 2001, Fairfax, VA.
81. "Evolutionary Creative Design: Methods and Tools," Information Technology School, Jagiellonia University, October, 2001, Krakow, Poland.
82. "Discovery, Invention, and their Enhancement," International Conference on "Perspectives on Innovation in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction, July 2001, Loughborough, England.
83. "George Mason University Global Network," George Mason University, May, 2001, Fairfax, VA.
84. (with De Jong, K.), "Inventive Design: Evolutionary Computation Approach," September 2000, NASA Langley Research Center.
85. (with Sauer T., and Schum, D.), "Inventive Design: Chaos-Based Approach," November 2000, NASA Langley Research Center
86. Invited, "From Leonardo DaVinci to Evolutionary Computation," Gordon Research Conference, "Theoretical Foundation for Product Design and Manufacturing," Session on "Creativity in Design," June, 2000.
87. "Inventive Design Education," the University of Virginia and NASA Workshop, "Advanced Technologies in Engineering Education," Hampton, VA, November, 1999.
88. "Inventive Design in Structural Engineering: Evolutionary Computing Approach," The Fifth International Conference on the Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Civil and Structural Engineering, Oxford, England, September, 1999.
89. (with DeJong, K.,), "Inventive Design: Evolutionary Computation Approach," NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, August, 1999.
90. "Technological Forecasting: Information Technology Approach," panel discussion session "Technological Forecasting Today and Tomorrow," World Future Society General Assembly "Frontiers of the 21st Century," Washington D.C., August, 1999.
91. "Designing Structural Design Education," workshop "Designing Design Education for the 21st Century," Claremont, California, May, 1999.
92. "Design and Inventive Engineering: from Theory to Practice," 1.5-hour workshop, the NCIIA Conference "Creative Connections," Conference Workshop, Washington D.C. March, 1999.
93. "CyberCreativity: Inventive Design on the Internet," Live Internet presentation, DC Net'98 - Design Computing on the Net'98, November 30 - December 3, 1998, Sydney, Australia.
94. "Design and Inventive Engineering: From Theory to Practice," the NASA Marshall Research Center, Huntsville, Alabama, November, 1998.
95. "Engineering Education Today and Tomorrow," Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, November, 1998.
96. "Future of Engineering Education," Krakow University of Technology, Poland, November, 1998.
97. "Network Computing in Inventive Problem Solving," the Institute of Fundamental Technological Problems of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, November, 1998.
98. "Inventive Engineering: From Practice to Science," the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, July, 1998.
99. "Information Technology Revolution," the ASCE Expert Systems & AI Committee Workshop, Fairfax, March, 1998.
100. "Internet-Based Teaching/Learning Tools in Structural Engineering Education," NASA workshop on Workshop on Advanced Technology for Engineering Education and Training," Hampton, VA, February, 1998.
101. Tutorial, "Inventive Problem Solving in Engineering," NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, February, 1998.
102. "CyberCreativity," NASA Langley Research Center, Hapton, VA, February, 1998.
103. (with Ardayfio, D.), "Automated Knowledge Acquisition in Proactive Design," the ASME Engineering Design Conference, Sacramento, California, September, 1997.
104. Tutorial, "Creative Problem Solving: From Heuristics to CyberCreativity," the ASCE International Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, Philadelphia, June, 1997.
105. "Proactive CyberSpace Design: Creative Problem Solving," the ASCE International Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, Philadelphia, June, 1997.
106. "Information Technology in Civil Engineering Education," the ASCE National Capital Section, January, 1997.
107. (with Kunigahalli, R.), "Creative Problem Solving: Intelligent Objects and Network-Enabling Techologies, NASA Langeley Research Center, January, 1997.
108. "Internet Revolution in Design," Dewberry and Davis, Fairfax, October 24, 1996.
109. (with Szczepanik, W.), "Semantic Comparison of Selective and Constructive Induction," the 3rd ASCE International Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, Anaheim, 1996.
110. Proactive CyberSpace Design: Creative Problem Solving, the ASCE International Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, Philadelphia, June, 1997.
111. (with Mustafa, M.), tutorial, "Machine Learning in Civil Engineering," the 3rd ASCE International Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, Anaheim, 1996.
112. (participated in the poster session), "Machine Learning: A Constructive Induction Approach," Proceedings of the NSF Grantees Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 1996.
113. (with Szczepanik, W.), "Empirical Performance Comparison of Two Symbolic Learning Systems Based on Selective and Constructive Induction," the Workshop "Machine Learning in Engineering," International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Montreal, August, 1995.
114. "Proactive Vehicle System Quality Development, How to Learn from Quality Surveys," Chrysler Technology Center, Auburn Hills, Michigan, February, 1995.
115. (with Chen, G.), "Machine Learning of Bridge Design Rules: A Case Study," the 2nd ASCE Congress "Computing in Civil Engineering," Atlanta, June, 1995.
116. "Inferential Design Theory: A Conceptual Outline," the Third International Conference "Artificial Intelligence in Design,"Lausanne, Switzerland, August, 1994.
117. "Machine Learning in Engineering," Computer Society, IEEE/SEM Spring ‘94 Meeting, April, Detroit, Michigan.
118. "Machine Learning in Design," School of Engineering, University of Connecticut, Stoors, Connecticut, May 5, 1994.
119. "Artificial Intelligence in Engineering," The Association of Polish-American Engineers, Detroit, Michigan, October 14, 1994.
120. "Learning Conceptual Design Rules: A Rough Sets Approach," the International Workshop on Rough Sets and Knowledge Discovery," Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1993.
121. "Information Technology in Civil Engineering," School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, July, 1993.
122. "Learning Engineering: An Outline," the ASCE Conference "Computing in Civil Engineering," Anaheim, June, 1993.
123. "Artificial Intelligence in Engineering," Warsaw Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, May, 1993.
124. "Automated Knowledge Acquistion in Engineering," the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, May, 1993.
125. "Artificial Intelligence in Creative Problem Solving," Workshop on Creative Problem Solving, Ideation Intl., Los Angeles, California, April, 1993.
126. "Evaluation of Performance of Learning Systems: A Methodology and Experimental Results," Computer Science Department, University of Regina, Regina, Canada, October, 1992.
127. Tutorial, "Machine Learning in Civil Engineering," University of Tokyo, Japan, August, 1992.
128. "Applications of Machine Learning to Construction Safety," session "Machine Learning," Japan-US Workshop on Expert Systems and AI Applications in Civil and Structural Engineering, Tokyo, August, 1992.
129. (with Khasnabis S.), "Learning Rules for Driving Scenarions for an Urban Rail Corridor with Closely Spaced Stations," the ASCE Conference "Computing in Civil Engineering," Dallas, June, 1992.
130. (with Mustafa, M.), "Learning Decision Rules for Wind Bracing Design," session "Machine Learning," the ASCE Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, June, 1992.
131. "Evaluation of Learning Systems," Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory, Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, George Mason University, March, 1992.
132. (with Hajdo P.), "Computer Generation of Structural Concepts: A Knowledge-Based Approach," the ASCE Seventh Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, Washington, D.C., May, 1991.
133. "Construction Accident Analysis: The Inductive Learning Approach," the ASCE Congress on Construction, Boston, April, 1991.
134. Invited, "Design Research in Eastern Europe," the ASME Conference "Design Theory and Methodology," Chicago, September, 1990.
135. Invited, "Design Research at Wayne State University," International Conference Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, Boston, July, 1990.
136. (with Mustafa, M.), "Knowledge Acquisition: Engineering Methodology of Inductive Learning," Electrical Engineering Department, University of Toledo, April, 1990.
137. "Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Civil Engineering," University of West Virginia, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1989.
138. "Inductive Learning Applications in Injury Data Analysis", National Institute for Occupational Safety and Hazards, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1989.
139. "The Inductive System: A New Tool in Civil Engineering", NATO ASI Conference "Optimization and Decision Support Systems in Civil Engineering", Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 1989.
140. "The Inductive System: An Expert System Development Tool and other Decision-Related Applications", What's New in Technology, Emerging Technologies Conference, Engineering Society of Detroit, April 25, 1989.
141. Key note address, "Machine Learning in Civil Engineering", Colloquium "Expert Systems in Civil Engineering", International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering, Bergamo, Italy, 1989.
142. (with Mustafa, M.), "Engineering Methodology of Inductive Learning", Tutorial Session, International Conference on Expert Systems, April 3, 1989.
143. "Inductive Learning in Space Research", Conference on Space Research, Michigan State University, December 5, 1988.
144. "Model-Based Expert System for Engineering Design," USACERL/ASCE First Joint Conference on Expert Systems, June 29-30, 1988.
145. "Inductive Learning in Engineering," USACERL/ASCE First Joint Conference on Expert Systems, June 29-30, 1988.
146. Invited, "Selected Design Methodologies in Europe," Session "Design Methodologies That Can Influence U.S. Productivity Today", Annual Winter Meeting of ASME in Chicago, December, 1988.
147. Invited, "Machine Learning in Engineering Research," Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Canada, September, 1987.
148. "Verification of Morhological Table Based on Rough Sets Approach," Fine Particle Society Meeting, Boston, August, 1987.
149. "Learning Expert Systems," Summer Workshop on Knowledge-Based Expert Systems in Engineering and Manufacturing Automation, Wayne State University, Detroit, August, 1987.
150. Invited, "Morphological Analysis: Three Generations," British Design Research Society, Coventry, England, May, 1987.