Robert Tuschák

After graduating, he worked as an assistant professor at the Budapest University of Technology (BME), then as a post-graduate student for three years. From 1956, he was a design engineer at Ganz Electric Works, and from 1963, he was the head of the Automation Department. The design office used the sizing procedures developed based on his results for decades. Later, he organized and headed the factory's Automation Laboratory. In the meantime, he was a part-time assistant professor at BME.

In 1966, he became a professor at the Department of Process Control at BME. In 1970, he became the deputy dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (VIK) at BME; at that time, he left Ganz Works.
Between 1973 and 1979, as the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at BME, he was the main initiator of the introduction of the C program, the direct precursor to the PhD program. He managed to attract direct corporate funds to support the studies of the students enrolled in the program.
From 1978 - following the death of Frigyes Csáki - he became the head of the Department of Automation until 1994.
Meanwhile, between 1984 and 1990, he was the vice-rector of science at the university. He obtained state support for BME to participate in research target programs. He maintained active international scientific and higher education cooperation relations. Until 1997, he also led the joint Control Engineering Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) and BME.
In 1997, he was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus. In 2001, he conducted research with a Leó Szilárd Professorship.

He defended his title of Candidate of Technical Sciences in 1955 and his academic doctorate in 1963. In 1982, he was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and in 1990, a full member.

His main research areas are electrical machines, control engineering and control theory. Since the 1990s, he has been dealing with methodological and curriculum issues in the education of control and control engineering, primarily in the field of utilizing the opportunities offered by the Internet. He has participated in the development of more than 25 patents.
He is the author or co-author of more than sixty scientific publications. His book Elektrotechnika, co-written with Frigyes Andor, Iván Szita and László Schnell, is legendary.

He is a member of the Automation and Computer Engineering Committee and the Electrical Engineering Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and was the chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 1995 and 2000. He also participated in the work of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee between 1997 and 2000. From 1993 he was the honorary chairman of the Hungarian Electrotechnical Association (MEE).

His awards: Zipernowszky Prize (MEE, 1957); Academic Prize (MTA, 1969); Gold Degree of the Order of Merit for Labor (Hungarian State, 1987); Csáki Prize (MEE, 1989); Order of the Star of the Republic of Hungary (Hungarian State, 1991); Middle Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (Hungarian State, 1993); Széchenyi Prize (Hungarian State, 1995); Award for Further Engineering Training (BME, 1998).