About Successful Education LLC
Our mission is to improve engineering education both in the United States and abroad. We strongly believe that in today's world, all engineering educators should work together and share experiences in order to advance our profession and society as a whole.
Successful Education LLC is focused on promoting a new education paradigm within engineering, appropriately called "Successful Education." This new paradigm is presented in the new book by Tomasz Arciszewski, Ph.D., Successful Education: How to Educate Creative Engineers.
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Our main activities are:
- Publishing books on engineering education, such as:
- Providing high-level training for engineering educators and administrators
- Providing consultations in areas such as:
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About its founder, Dr. Tomasz Arciszewski
Dr. Tomasz Arciszewski is the founder of Successful Education LLC. He is a tenured professor with over 40 years of teaching experience and a former chair in the Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering Department at the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University. He is a structural engineer with a formal background in structural mechanics and has extensive design experience in the areas of steel space structures (Poland) and general structural engineering (Switzerland).
Dr. Arciszewski is a transdisciplinary scholar whose diverse research integrates knowledge from engineering, computer science, and cognitive psychology. His present focus is on “visual thinking” in the areas of inventive design and engineering education. His goal as an educator and researcher is to promote collaboration and creativity within engineering instruction with the aim of producing engaged students who can become highly-productive inventors and leaders in society.
In the area of inventive design, he recently co-wrote the chapter “Visual Thinking in Inventive Design: Three Perspectives” with cognitive psychologist Dr. C. Harrison and mathematician Dr. E. Grabska in the book Soft Computing in Civil and Structural Engineering, published by Saxe-Coburg Publications. In the area of creative education, Arciszewski's ground-breaking new book, Successful Education: How to Educate Creative Engineers, is available for purchase, and its companion publication Tools for Successful Education is scheduled for a Fall 2010 release. His paper (co-authored with Dr. Harrison) entitled "Successful Civil Engineering Education” was published in January, 2010 in the ASCE Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, and is available for purchase.
At George Mason University, Dr. Arciszewski teaches courses on Structural Engineering and on Design and Inventive Engineering. His graduate course on Design and Inventive Engineering usually attracts not only civil engineering students but also computer science, systems engineering, and psychology students as well.
Dr. Arciszewski is a global scholar and educator with experience on three continents (Europe, North America, and Africa). He is also an inventor with patents in Canada, Poland and the United States. Arciszewski has published more than 160 research and technical articles in various journals, books, and conference proceeding publications. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the NASA Langley Research Center and the Defense Thread Reduction Agency. He has also received research grants from various state funding organizations and from manufacturing companies such as the Chrysler Corporation.
In the professional arena, Dr. Arciszewski is active in the American Society of Civil Engineers, where he has served as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Council on Computing and Information Technology. He is currently the founding chair of the Executive Committee of the ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing, with members on all continents. He is also a corresponding member of the ASCE Body of Knowledge II Educational Fulfillment Committee and of the International Activities Committee.
About Michael Sikes
Michael Sikes is an illustrator, painter and licensed tattooist. His studio is located in Old Town Fairfax, Virginia. Michael has prepared 81 drawings for the book Successful Education: How to Educate Creative Engineers. His painting entitled “Inspiration“ was used as the book's cover.
To view more of his work, visit www.eyespeak.us.
 
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