He has taught or co-taught his version of the 'structures and the urban environment' course 6 times and has had the course approved as meeting university requirements for the general education (distribution requirements) curriculum in historical studies and quantitative reasoning. He conducts research, funded by the National Science Foundation and industry, in structural mechanics and behavior and on the use of historic structures in civil engineering education. Dr. Arwade is the leader of the Teaching Materials working group of the International Network for Structural Art, who has started a database/collection of teaching materials.