1935
Zbigniew
2023
Zbigniew Bzymek
August 5, 1935 — March 31, 2023
Zbigniew Bzymek Obituary
Zbigniew Marian Bzymek, died peacefully on March 31st, 2023. He was 87 years old. He was a beloved father, grandfather and husband whose kindness and warmth was felt by all who had the good fortune of meeting him. He was also a dedicated and inspiring educator, researcher and computer graphics pioneer.
Zbigniew Marian Bzymek—“Zbig” as he was known by his American colleagues and coworkers—was born on August 5th, 1935 in Warsaw, Poland. He was only 4 years old when WWII broke out in Warsaw, and he would often recount his wartime experiences as the son of a resistance fighter. Zbigniew excelled in his studies and went on to attend Warsaw University of Technology where he studied bridge design. Zbigniew authored an early CAM language called STRAINS and he received a Polish government scholarship to attend MIT in the late 1950s. Having arrived in the US, he decided to take his scholarship to The University of Michigan where the small stipend would go further. He completed a master’s degree at The University of Michigan and returned to Poland in 1961 to finish his doctorate.
In 1966, Zbigniew married Danuta Jaworska, a medical student from Torun. They later had three children: Malgosia, Dorota and Zbyszek. In 1981, Zbigniew decided to move his family to The United States and after a difficult immigration process that spanned two years, his family eventually joined him in Storrs, CT, where he took a job as a visiting professor. Zbigniew’s three children all attended E.O. Smith High School and New England colleges and his wife, Danuta completed the nostrification process to gain her US medical diploma in Connecticut. Zbigniew continued to work at the University of Connecticut where he became an associate professor and ran the computer aided design and modeling laboratory at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He was an active member The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Association of Computer Machinery, as well as the UConn Mentor Connection program through which he mentored high school students interested in engineering.
Zbig will be lovingly missed by his wife Danuta, his children Malgosia, Dorota and Zbyszek, his grandchildren Urszulka, Zosia and Greyson, his family and friends.
His Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 10:00am at St.Thomas Aquinas Chapel, 46 N Eagleville Rd, Storrs, CT, burial to follow at Storrs Cemetery.
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Zbigniew Marian Bzymek, died peacefully on March 31st, 2023. He was 87 years old. He was a beloved father, grandfather and husband whose kindness and warmth was felt by all who had the good fortune of meeting him. He was also a dedicated and inspiring educator, researcher and computer graphics pioneer.
Zbigniew Marian Bzymek—“Zbig” as he was known by his American colleagues and coworkers—was born on August 5th, 1935 in Warsaw, Poland. He was only 4 years old when WWII broke out in Warsaw, and he would often recount his wartime experiences as the son of a resistance fighter. Zbigniew excelled in his studies and went on to attend Warsaw University of Technology where he studied bridge design. Zbigniew authored an early CAM language called STRAINS and he received a Polish government scholarship to attend MIT in the late 1950s. Having arrived in the US, he decided to take his scholarship to The University of Michigan where the small stipend would go further. He completed a master’s degree at The University of Michigan and returned to Poland in 1961 to finish his doctorate.
In 1966, Zbigniew married Danuta Jaworska, a medical student from Torun. They later had three children: Malgosia, Dorota and Zbyszek. In 1981, Zbigniew decided to move his family to The United States and after a difficult immigration process that spanned two years, his family eventually joined him in Storrs, CT, where he took a job as a visiting professor. Zbigniew’s three children all attended E.O. Smith High School and New England colleges and his wife, Danuta completed the nostrification process to gain her US medical diploma in Connecticut. Zbigniew continued to work at the University of Connecticut where he became an associate professor and ran the computer aided design and modeling laboratory at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He was an active member The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Association of Computer Machinery, as well as the UConn Mentor Connection program through which he mentored high school students interested in engineering.
Zbig will be lovingly missed by his wife Danuta, his children Malgosia, Dorota and Zbyszek, his grandchildren Urszulka, Zosia and Greyson, his family and friends.
His Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 10:00am at St.Thomas Aquinas Chapel, 46 N Eagleville Rd, Storrs, CT, burial to follow at Storrs Cemetery.
To send flowers
to the family or plant a tree
in memory of Zbigniew Bzymek, please visit our floral store.
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