Ilija Ćosić
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Ilija Ćosić (Serbian Cyrillic: Илија Ћосић; born 5 September 1948) is a Serbian academic, engineer, and politician. He is a professor emeritus with the University of Novi Sad. Ćosić has served in the National Assembly of Serbia and the Assembly of Vojvodina and has held high office within the Democratic Party (DS).
Ćosić was born in the village of Rivica in Irig, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He attended elementary school in Irig and secondary school in Ruma and graduated from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in 1972. He also served in the Yugoslav People's Army in this period, graduating from the School of Reserve Technical Officers in Zagreb in 1973–74.
Ćosić received a master's degree from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Technical Sciences in 1979 and a Ph.D. from the same institution in 1983. As a graduate student, he spent a considerable amount of time at international universities, including in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Thailand. He became an assistant professor at the University of Novi Sad in 1983, an associate professor in 1988, and a full professor in the field of production systems in 1993. He was dean of the Faculty of Technical Sciences from 1998 to 2014 and was given the title of professor emeritus in 2016.
He has published widely in his field, participated in various scientific-academic projects, and received several academic and civil honours.[1]