Romualdas Kasuba

Romualdas Kasuba (March 23, 1931 – October 19, 2019; Lithuanian: Romualdas Kašuba) was a Lithuanian American academician and mechanical engineer.[1]

Romualdas Kasuba
Born(1931-03-23)March 23, 1931
Kaunas, Lithuania
DiedOctober 19, 2019(2019-10-19) (aged 88)
Alma materUniversity of Illinois
Scientific career
Fieldsengineering, aerospace engineering
InstitutionsVytautas Magnus University, Cleveland State University, Northern Illinois University

Biography

Kasubas' family planned to flee Lithuania in 1940; the family was threatened with being sent to Siberia by the Soviet regime because his mother was a teacher.[2] However, after the German invasion, Kasuba was instead put to work on a farm supplying food to the German army.[2] Kasuba moved to Germany in 1944, and he then lived in a displaced persons camp[2] and emigrated to the United States in 1948.

Kasuba graduated from University of Illinois in 1954. He earned a doctoral degree in 1962. Kasuba taught at Cleveland State University from 1964 to 1986, where he also chaired the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In 1986 Kasuba co-founded the College of Engineering at Northern Illinois University and became its dean.[3] From 1989 to 1996, Kasuba was a member of senate at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Kasuba died in 2019 at age 88.[4]

Awards and recognition
  • 1998: Honorary doctorate from the Kaunas University of Technology[2]
  • 1999: The National Academy of Sciences of Lithuania elected him an international member of the academy[3]
  • 1999: The Diamond Award from the UNESCO International Engineering Education Center for the best paper[3]
  • In February 2011, an auditorium at Northern Illinois University was named in Kasuba's honor.[5][6]

References
  1. Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija, IX t. Vilnius: Science and encyclopedias publishing institute, 2006. T.9: Juocevičius-Khiva.
  2. Spychala, Mark (May 24, 1998). "A Closed Chapter". The Daily Chronicle. De Kalb, IL. pp. 1, 2. Retrieved August 4, 2023 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  3. "Romualdas Kasuba, Ph.D., P.E., Dr. (Hon)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-12. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
  4. "Dr. Romualdas Kasuba". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, IL. October 13, 2019. p. 1-36. Retrieved August 3, 2023 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  5. "NIU Building Named in Honor of St. Charles Man". St. Charles Kane County Chronicle. St. Charles, IL. March 3, 2011. p. 9. Retrieved August 4, 2023 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  6. "CEET auditorium named in Kasuba's honor | NIU Today". Niutoday.info. 2011-02-11. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
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