Romualdas Kasuba
Romualdas Kasuba was a Lithuanian American academician and mechanical engineer.
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. However, after the German invasion, Kasuba was instead put to work on a farm supplying food to the German army. Kasuba moved to Germany in 1944, and he then lived in a displaced persons camp 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.
From 1989 to 1996, Kasuba was a member of senate at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Kasuba died in 2019 at age 88.
Awards and recognition
- 1998: Honorary doctorate from the Kaunas University of Technology
- 1999: The National Academy of Sciences of Lithuania elected him an international member of the academy
- 1999: The Diamond Award from the UNESCO International Engineering Education Center for the best paper
- In February 2011, an auditorium at Northern Illinois University was named in Kasuba's honor.