Director of Institute of Piezomechanics
Prof. Dr. Habil. Ramutis BANSEVICIUS


     
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1939; born in Lithuania;
Lithuanian

    
POSITION (1) Rector of Kaunas University of Technology,
Director of Institute of Piezomechanics
Professor at the Department of Manufacturing Systems
K. Donelaičio Str. 73, 3006 Kaunas , LITHUANIA,
Tel. 370 37 300001, Fax 370 37 324054
bansevicius@cr.ktu.lt
http://www.ktu.lt,
http://www.piezo.lt


POSITION (2)
Chairman of the Technical Division of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (from 1997);

LT-2600 Vilnius, Gedimino Str. 3
EDUCATION 1956 - 1961 Kaunas Politechnical Institute, Department of Mechanical Engineering; speciality - Production Engineering
1963 - 1967 Postgraduate student at Kaunas Politechnical Institute
 
DEGREES: Cand. Sc. (1968);
Dr. Sc. (1982);
Professor (1984)
 
LANGUAGES Spoken: Lithuanian (native), Russian, English

DELIVERS
LECTURES ON
  • Basic and special technologies of manufacturing systems;
  • Mechatronics (post-graduate students' level);
  • Piezomechanics (masters' level);
  • Adaptive Mechanics (masters' level).
RESEARCH 1963 - 1975 at Kaunas Politechnical Institute; reseach area - Mechanical Oscillations
1975 - 1976 at Politechnico di Milano; reseach area - Precision Mechanics
1976 - 1989 at Kaunas Politechnical Institute; research area - Precision Mechanics, Mechatronics
1989 at the City University, London; research area - as above
1989 present at Kaunas University of Technology; research area - Precise Manufacturing Systems; Mechatronics
From 1993 Visiting professor at De Montfort University, Leicester, U.K.
1992 - 2000 Coordinator of three TEMPUS international projects and two INFO-COPERNICUS projects, Technical Director of the EU COPERNICUS project
 
HONORS AND AWARDS From 1990 Corresp. Member of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
From 1998 Academician of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
1991-95 Member of the Science Council of Lithuania (for advising Parliament and Government on R&D).
From 2000 Member of the Science Council of Lithuania (reelected)
1992-2000 Chairman of IFToMM (International Federation for Theory of Machines and Mechanisms) National Committee
1996-2000 Chairman of the Senate of Kaunas University of Technology
From 2000 - " – second term
From 1995 Member of IMechE, UK
1996-97 Conference of the Chairmen of the Senates (Councils) of the Lithuanian Higher Education Studies and Science Institutions; President
1999 The Order of Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas
2000 present Member of the Standing Conference of Rectors of Lithuanian Universities
2001 Honorary Doctor of De Montfort University, Great Britain.
Since 2002 - Chairman of the Research Committee at the Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO.
Editor-in-Chief of periodical Production Engineering (Masinu gamyba), publ. by Kaunas University of Technology.
Since 2002 - Chairman of the Lithuanian State Fund for Research and Studies

Member of Editorial Board of:
  • MECHANIKA - scientific periodical, published by Lithuanian Academy of Sciencies and Lithuanian Technical Universities.
  • Mechanines Technologijos - scientific periodical, published by Kaunas University of Technology.
ACTIVITY
  • Member of Lithuanian Science Council’s experts group to prepare the reorganization of Research system in Lithuania (1996-97).
  • Member of special expert group to reorganize the Study and Research system in
  • Lithuania, created by Prime Minister of Lithuanian Republic (No 42, 17 January 1997).
  • Member of the expert group to prepare White Book on Science and Technology in Lithuania (created by Prime Minister of Lithuanian Republic, No 109, 14 May 1999)
PUBLICATIONS Over 150 scientific papers, 300 USSR inventions, 12 patents in Precision Mechanics and Robotics, including the following books, written with co-authors:
  1. Vibromotors for Precision Microrobots.
    Hemisphere Publishing Corp., 1988, USA, ISBN 0-89116054905. 310p.
  2. Vibromotors.
    Vilnius, Mokslas, 1981. 193p. (in Russian).
  3. Vibrational Transformers of Motion.
    Leningrad, Mashinostrojenije, 1984. 64p. (in Russian).
  4. Robots for Miniature Parts.
    Moscow, Mashinostrojenije, 1985. 264p. (in Russian).
  5. Precise Vibro-Mechanical Scanning Devices.
    Vilnius, Mokslas, 1991. 138p. (in Russian).