Dusseau earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Michigan State University. His master's thesis and doctoral dissertation both involved finite-element analysis of steel arch bridges. He spent 10 years as an assistant and associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Wayne State University.
An award-winning registered professional engineer, Dusseau is a member of numerous professional organizations and honor societies.
He has served as the principal investigator for the following research projects: 1) finite-element modeling and analysis of pipeline suspension bridges; 2) database development, field ambient vibration analysis and finite-element modeling and analysis of bridges in the Pacific Northwest; 3) database development and field ambient vibration analysis of bridges in the Central United States; 4) finite-element modeling and analysis, and laboratory testing of medium-duty transit buses; 5) photographic survey and field ambient vibration analysis of the Delaware Memorial Bridge; and 6) field ambient vibration analysis, finite-element modeling and earthquake analysis of the Betsy Ross, Walt Whitman and Ben Franklin Bridges as part of a Delaware River Port Authority project.