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Prof. Wieslaw “Wes” Grebski brought renewable energy to Penn State Hazleton before he initiated the Bachelor of Science Degree in General Engineering with Alternative Energy and Power Generation track. He drove around campus in a solar car and installed a wind turbine and solar panels across from the bookstore. An associate professor with more than 30 years on campus, Grebski earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanislaw Staszic University of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow, Poland. He won the Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching, one of Penn State’s highest honors. To interest young people in engineering, Grebski also teaches high school students. One of his classes built an airplane.

Dr. Greg Galecki is an Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mining and Nuclear Engineering at the Missouri University of Science & Technology (MS&T), USA. He has worked in the field of machine building technology, mining equipment and tools with related research and teaching since 1974. He has over 40 years of experience in experimental waterjet use and designing special high pressure equipment. Dr. Galecki has over 100 conference and journal publications, including a book chapter, and numerous technical reports. His recent research interests are in the experimental high pressure waterjet use, reconfigurable systems and system integration, modeling of mining processes supported by waterjets, specifically comminution and nanotechnology. During 2007-2011 he served on the Water Jet Technology Association’s (WJTA) Board of Directors. He is a member of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Water Jet Technology Association (Safety Committee), and National Defense Industrial Association.

Dr. Liubomyr "Liub" Romanyshyn is the Director of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering and a Professor of the Department of Oil and Gas Machinery and Equipment at the National Technical University of Oil and Gas (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). The main field of his scientific activity is the use of permanent magnets fields in construction and operation of oil and gas wells. Dr. Romanyshyn is the author of more than 100 scientific papers and study guides, including 2 monographs, 35 inventions. He has more than 30 years of experience in developing and researching the parameters of the magnetic fishing tools used to retrieve metal objects from wells. With his participation, it has been provided the industrial production of fishing tools, which are successfully used at the oil and gas enterprises in Ukraine, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Russia et al. He is a member of the Ukrainian Oil and Gas Academy as well as a member of the editorial board of many scientific journals. Dr. Romanyshyn is awarded numerous certificates and medals.

Dr Tamer RIZAOĞLU was born in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, in 1969. He formerly worked at Aksaray University and now he has been working as an Associate Professor at the department of Geological Engineering in Kahramanmaras Sütçü İmam University, Turkey. He received a B.S degree in Geological Engineering from Dokuz Eylül University (DEU), İzmir in 1993, M.S. and PhD degrees in same field from the University of Cukurova (CU), Adana, Turkey, in 2000 and 2006, respectively. His PhD thesis entitled “Geology and Petrology of the tectonomagmatic units cropping out between Baskil and Sivrice (Elazığ) area” was awarded by Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). He completed three months training on Geological Risks organized by the University of Geneva, Switzerland including fieldworks in Italy and France in 2003. His primary specialization is petrology of ophiolitic and granitic rocks. Broadly his research concerns geochemical and petrographical characteristics of the magmatic rocks. He is also interested in industrial raw materials and has been conducting projects on producing building materials based on geological sources. He has been working on interdisciplinary research projects dealing with soil chemistry and petrography since 2012. He worked as Vice Dean of Engineering and Architecture Faculty in Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University from 2013 to 2018.