 | W. Marszalek is a professor at DeVry University in North Brunswick, New Jersey and a recent receipient of the Fulbright Foundation research award (2005/06). He graduated from Tarnobrzeg High School and enrolled in the Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, first as an undergraduate and then as a graduate student. He received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering (control theory) from that university. Then he taught and did research in mathematical modeling and control at the Technical University of Opole, in southwestern Poland. This period includes an involuntary "sabbatical" leave of a one year of military service ("one of the worst periods of my life"). In 1990 he received a Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation in Germany and spent over 2 years doing research at the Lehrstuhl fuer Elektrische Steuerung und Regelung in Bochum, Germany ("one of the best periods of my life"). Since 1992 he has lived in the USA. In 1997 he received a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. He spent 2 years in Portsmouth, Ohio, working as an assistant professor of mathematics at Shawnee State University and since 1999 he has worked at DeVry University in North Brunswick, NJ. He is an author or coauthor of 70+ published journal and conference papers. He received a Fulbright research grant in 2005. US citizen. |