Tomasz Arciszewski
George Mason University
George Mason University
Dr. Tomasz Arciszewski is a professor of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering at George Mason University. He is an interdisciplinary scholar who specializes in inventive engineering, knowledge acquisition, visual thinking in inventive design, and in education. He has a formal background in the areas of structural engineering and mechanics with hands-on design experience in steel space structures and general structural engineering. Dr. Arciszewski has published more than 160 research and technical articles in various journals, books, and conference proceedings publications. In December 2009, he published his book, “Successful Education- How to Educate Creative Engineers,” which is a culmination of over thirty years of research in the field of civil engineering education. He is also an inventor, with patents in Canada, the United States and Poland in the areas of tall buildings and space structures. At GMU, Dr. Arciszewski teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in Structural Engineering and Design and Inventive Engineering.
The speaker is a global scholar interested in education in the context of creativity. His recent book “Successful Education. How to Educate Creative Engineers” has been published in the USA and will be published this year in China and Poland. Recently the speaker taught Inventive Engineering in Taiwan, Poland, and Italy, and gave talks on Successful Education in these countries as well as in Singapore, UK and in the USA at several universities and at the Department of Education.
We are living in a rapidly evolving world, which creates various challenges for all educated people. Unfortunately, traditional disciplinary, or even interdisciplinary, knowledge and traditional deductive thinking skills are grossly insufficient to address our emerging challenges. We need a new kind of a professional, a product of Successful Education, who will be educated to learn transdisciplinary knowledge and to practice successful intelligence.
The talk will provide an overview of Successful Education, a new educational paradigm based on the Theory of Successful Intelligence and utilizing the Da Vinci Principles. The speaker will also talk about implementation of Successful Education in a modern university; it will be done mostly in the context of engineering education but with obvious implications for the liberal arts or science education. In fact, integrative education will be proposed. Such education will be focused not only on the disciplinary knowledge but also on integrative teaching leading to integration of disciplinary knowledge into transdisciplinary knowledge, which is the key to creativity in science and engineering.
We are living in a rapidly evolving world, which creates various challenges for all educated people. Unfortunately, traditional disciplinary, or even interdisciplinary, knowledge and traditional deductive thinking skills are grossly insufficient to address our emerging challenges. We need a new kind of a professional, a product of Successful Education, who will be educated to learn transdisciplinary knowledge and to practice successful intelligence.
The talk will provide an overview of Successful Education, a new educational paradigm based on the Theory of Successful Intelligence and utilizing the Da Vinci Principles. The speaker will also talk about implementation of Successful Education in a modern university; it will be done mostly in the context of engineering education but with obvious implications for the liberal arts or science education. In fact, integrative education will be proposed. Such education will be focused not only on the disciplinary knowledge but also on integrative teaching leading to integration of disciplinary knowledge into transdisciplinary knowledge, which is the key to creativity in science and engineering.
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