Medical Biology & Bioengineering

Biography

Biography: Mariusz Ziejewski

Abstract

This presentation will be an overview of the educational and professional life of a University Professor of Mechanical Engineering, researcher and expert witness. The presenter will demonstrates how a combination of events, and life’s circumstances, can dramatically change the direction of a career. The presenter will also encourage others to not be fearful of those changes, but to rather embrace them as unknowns that have the potential to expose individuals to exciting challenges that may enrich their careers. Power point slides will be used to reflect on the forty years that have taken the presenter from being a student of mechanical engineering in Poland to being an expert witness in traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the United States. The slides will also emphasize how the presenter followed a career path, but remained open to new opportunities, needs for research, communication, and technology that emerged along the way. Sometimes, professionals find themselves stuck in a career, or reaching the stage of burn-out. The goal of the presenter is to motivate conference participants to continually look for new opportunities where they can use their energy and talents, and to remember that their professional life does not have to be a linear path.