Rymantas Tadas TOLOCKA



     
BORN: October 10, 1943, born in Lithuania, Lithuanian
   
POSITION: Professor at the Department of Engineering Mechanics of Kaunas University of Technology
Gedimino str. 41, Kaunas, LT-3000, LITHUANIA,
Tel. 370 37 323 199
tadas.tolocka@ktu.lt
 
EDUCATION 1961 - 1966 Diploma Engineer: Kaunas Politechnical Institute, Department of Mechanical Engineering; speciality - Production Engineering
1969 - 1972 Postgraduate student at Kaunas Politechnical Institute
 
DEGREES: Cand. Sc. (1977);
Docent (1982);
 
LANGUAGES spoken: Lithuanian (native), fluent Russian, English, Polish

DELIVERS LECTURES ON:
  • Theory of Machines and Mechanisms (basic level);
  • Adaptive Mechanics (Master's level);
  • Mechanism Synthesis (Master's level);
  • Operations Research (Master's level);
  • Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering (basic level);
  • Intelligent Mechatronical Systems (basic level).
RESEARCH: 1967 - present at Kaunas University of Technology; research areas: mechanical oscillations, dynamics and synthesis of precise mechanical systems; mechatronics; smart materials and composite structures
 
ACTIVITIES
  • Member of IFToMM (International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanisms and Machines Science) Lithuanian National Committee;
  • Member of IFToMM Permanent Commission for Standardization of Terminology;
  • Member of IFToMM Permanent Commission for History of Mechanisms and Machines Science;
  • Vice-President of Lithuanian National Association of Biomechanics;
  • Director of International Master's study programme Industrial Engineering and Management of Baltic States University Consortium "Baltech" at Kaunas University of Technology.

 
PUBLICATIONS: Author and co-author of over 100 scientific papers, 21 USSR inventions, 1 patent in Precision Mechanics, including contribution in the following books:
  1. Optimization Methods in the Theory of Mechanisms and Machines. Moscow, Nauka, 1979. 167 p. (In Russian)
  2. Dynamics of Precise Tape Driving Mechanisms. Vilnius, Mokslas, 1984. (In Russian). 171 p.
Author and co-author of 12 teaching books including the textbook written with co-authors: Theory of Mechanisms and machines. Vilnius, Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing House, 1994. 321 p. (In Lithuanian). 321 p.
Contributor of"The Mechatronics Handbook".ed. by R.Bishop, CRC Press, ISBN 0-8493-0066-5, Boca Raton, 2002.