Paul J. Tikalsky is an American engineer and the Oklahoma State University Regents Service Professor. He was dean and the Donald and Cathey Humphreys Endowed Chair of Engineering at OSU.[1]
He served as dean of the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology at Oklahoma State University (OSU) from 2012 to 2023.[2] Tikalsky was inducted into the Czech National Academy of Engineering in 2012 for his contributions in advancing simulation-based reliability assessment techniques for long-life structures in the European Union.[3] Tikalsky was named a Fulbright Scholar by the US State Department and served as a Fulbright Specialist in Namangan, Uzbeckistan.[4] A bio of Paul J. Tikalsky can be found in the Encyclopedia of Bohemian and Czech-American Biography.[5]