Romualdas Kasuba (March 23, 1931 â October 19, 2019; ) was a Lithuanian American academician and mechanical engineer.
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.