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NSEL Coordinator

Gregory Banas

Dr. Banas attended the Technical University in Zielona Go'ra, Poland and received his Mechanical Engineering degree in 1970. Dr. Banas then attended graduate school at the Technical University in Poznan', Poland and received his doctorate (Doctor of Technical Science) in 1975 in the area of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science.

Dr. Banas joined the faculty of the Technical University in Zielona Go'ra as a teaching and research assistant in 1970. In 1976, he became a faculty member of the Technical University in Rzeszo'w, Poland as an Adjunct (Assistant Professor). Dr. Banas taught courses in mechanical engineering fundamentals and machine tool fundamentals. He has been a Visiting Scholar and Research Engineer in theCivil Engineering Department at the University of Illinois since March of 1986. Dr. Banas' research activities have been concentrated on the improvement techniques of metallic components.

Dr. Banas is a leading researcher in this area, specifically in use of shot peening for fatigue resistance improvement, and has received many awards for this work. He co-authored two books ( Mechanical Engineering Fundamentals and Surface Layer of Metallic Components) and has published 40 technical papers in scholarly journals and conference proceedings.