Education:

  • 2009, October 24 :






  • 2006, summer :

  • 2005, August - present :



  • 2005, July :


  • 2005, July :







  • 2002 - 2003 :


  • 2000 - 2005:

* * *

 

Re-Thinking Science & Engineering Learning & Teaching, Institute for Astronomy, Maui.
Professional Development Program developed by National Science Foundation (NSF).

1-day introductory workshop.

Part of ISEE/CfAO (Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators/Center for Adaptive Optics).

Summer scholarship, Outreach College, HI, USA.

Ph.D student at University of Hawai’i at Manoa,
Honolulu, HI, USA.
Research Adviser: Prof. H. Ronald Riggs, Department Chair
 
ASSEC ‘07, Advanced Studies in Structural Engineering
and CAE, Weimar, Germany.

Master of Science and Diploma Engineer
in Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Poznan University of Technology, Poland.
Major: Civil and Enviromental Engineering.
Research Advisors: Prof. Andrzej Garstecki, Institute and Deparment Chair
                                    Dr. Zbigniew Pozorski.
     

Socrates-Erasmus, student exchange program,
Department of Structural Engineering, Milan, Italy.

Master of Science studies at Poznan University of Technology,
Poland.

 

Professional Experience:

  • 2009, November 1 - 7 :


  • 2009, October 16 :


  • 2009, July - present:

  • 2009, June - present:


  • 2009, May - June


  • 2008, November - 2009, June:

  • 2008, September - present:


  • 2008, summer:






  • 2007, November:




  • 2007, summer :



  • 2007 :


  • 2006 - 2008:

  • 2006, summer :


  • 2005 - present :




  • 2004 :


  • 2003 :

 

Post-tsunami Damage Reconesance team (Univeristy of Hawaii, Oregon State University, Princeton University), American and Independent Samoa.

Graduate Student Organization official website design & development
(http://gso.hawaii.edu - MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, HTML)

Graduate Student Organization (GSO), Information and Communication Chair.

Engineers Without Boarders, University of Hawaii Chapter,
La Pita, Nicaragua, Project: Bridge Design Team and Local Commuitty Training Group.

Organizational Committee, OMAE 2009, The 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Graduate Student Organization (GSO), Information and Communication Chair.

Graduate Student Organization (GSO), Events Committee.
Organization of Graduate Studnets Events at University of Hawaii Campus.

The National Science Foundation (NSF), George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Graduate Summer Internship Program (NEES GSI),
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California,
San Diego (UCSD), California, USA.
(http://it.nees.org/about/announcements/workshops/20080825-2008-nees-graduate-summer-internship-program.php)

O . H. Hinsdale, Wave Research Laboratory,
Tsunami Wave Basin, Oregon State University,
Corvallis, Oregon, USA.
(http://wave.oregonstate.edu/)

Student Mentor, Computational Engineering Lab,
“Computational Tsunami Wave Modelling”,
College of Engineering, 2007 Summer High School Internship Program, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Teaching Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

University of Hawaii, Graduate Student Organization department representative.

Student Mentor, Computational Engineering Lab,
College of Engineering, 2006 Summer High School Internship Program, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Research Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Research: Nonlinear Inverse Finite Element Method (Nonlinear iFEM),
Damage Recovery iFEM method.

Dalkia Poznan, Department of Development.
(http://www.dalkia.pl, http://www.dalkia.com).

Geological and geotechnical measurements,
Poznan University of Technology, Institute of Civil Engineering
Engineering Geology Group: D.Sc. Jerzy Sobkowiak, Department Chair,
                                                    D.Sc. Slawomir Janinski, Department of Architecture,
                                                    Civil, and Environmental Engineering Dean.

 

Teaching Experience:

  • 2007, January - June :

  • 2006:

 

CEE 370, Mechanics of Materials Laboratory.

CEE 271, Applied Mechanics II: Dynamics - occasionally.

 

Participated Research Grants:

  • Riggs, H.R. (P.I.), Robertson, I.N. (Co-P.I.), Cheung, K.F. (Co-P.I.), Yim, S.C. (Co-P.I.), and Young, Y.L. (Co-P.I.),
    'NEESR-SG: Development of Performance Based Tsunami Engineering, PBTE,' funded by NSF,
    September 15. 2005 - August 31, 2009. (http://teri.hawaii.edu/).

  • Riggs, H.R. (P.I.), 'Extension to Large Displacements of the Inverse FEM for Full-Field Reconstruction of Deformations in Plates and Shells,' funded by NASA, February 2005 - February 2007.

Conferences, Workshops, and Meeting Contributions:
  • 2009, October 24







  • 2009, May 31 - June 5

  • 2009, March 24 - 26


  • 2008, July 20 - August 15




  • 2008, March 1-6 :


  • 2007, June 10-15 :



  • 2006, November 26 :

 

Re-Thinking Science & Engineering Learning & Teaching, Institute for Astronomy, Maui.
Professional Development Program developed by National Science Foundation (NSF).

1-day introductory workshop.

Part of ISEE/CfAO (Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators/Center for Adaptive Optics).

OMAE 2009, The 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore
and Arctic Engineering, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Pointwise & Gridgen Meshing Standard Training Course,
Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas.

Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES - http://www.nees.org/) Graduate Summer Internship Program (NEES GSI),
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC),
University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California, USA.

International Workshop on Recent Technology in Structural
and Trasportation Engineering, Saitama University, Tokyo, Japan.

OMAE 2007, The 26th International Conference on Offshore
Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, San Diego, Calfornia, USA
(paper OMAE2007-29730).

Performance Based Design Using Nonlinear Analysis,
San Francisco, California, USA.

Scientific Publications:

  • Paczkowski, K. and Riggs, H.R., 2007. 'An inverse finite element strategy to recover full-field,
    large displacements from strain measurements,'
    Proc., 26th International Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering Conference,
    paper OMAE2007-29730.

  • Paczkowski, K. and Riggs, H.R., 2007. 'Extension to Large Displacements of the Inverse FEM
    for Full-Field Reconstruction of Deformations in Plates and Shells,'
    Final Report for NASA Grant NNL05AA13G, March 2007

Scholarships:

  • 2007 :

  • 2007 :




  • 2006 :

  • 2002-2003 :

 

E.E.Black Scholarship ($1000).

OMAE2007, An Outreach to Engineers Speciality Forum Scholarship ($1500).
Sponsors: ASME, OOAE, AMSE: International Petroleum Technology Institute.
Corporate Sponsors: GlobalSantaFe, Shell, Technip, ABS, General Dynamics, Offshore Model Basin,
BMT Scientific Marine Services, C-FER Technologies.

Outreach College summer studies scholarship.

European Union Socrates-Erasmus scholarship,
Dipartimento di Ingineria Structurale, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Memberships:

  • Engineers Without Boarders
  • American Society of Civil Engineers.
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Other Activities:

  • 2008 - present:

  • 2007 - present:




  • 2007 - present:


  • 2007 :


  • 2006 :

 

Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC). (http://www.mhpcc.edu/).

Research work using San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC),
which supports several America’s largest, fastest and most capable
research-oriented computational environments.
(http://www.sdsc.edu/)

Research work using University of Hawaii Dell Cluster.
(http://navet.ics.hawaii.edu/~uhdellcluster/)

Involvement in open-source computational fluid dynamics software
OpenFOAM.

Matrix and Numerical Oriented Analysis (FEM software)
Visualization software.

Research Interests:

  • Fluid-structure interaction
  • Wave and tsunami loading on structures
  • Biomechanics
  • Computational mechanics
  • Continuum mechnics
  • Computers in science