Speaker Biography

Larry Bartoszek

Owner

Bartoszek Engineering

Larry Bartoszek, an Aurora, IL resident, has a dual degree in Mechanical Engineering and Physics from the University of Illinois and is an Illinois Licensed Professional Engineer. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Welding Society, ASM International, the Chicago Society for Space Studies, the National Space Society, and the International Space Elevator Consortium.  Larry worked at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory for 10 years from 1983 to 1993. In his work at Fermilab he was responsible for the design of a 150 million dollar hadron calorimeter weighing 4,000 tons and many other accelerator and detector projects.  Larry Bartoszek owns Bartoszek Engineering, a consulting firm which specializes in mechanical designs for the nuclear and high energy physics research community world-wide. Bartoszek Engineering has worked for many national laboratories, universities and governments on experiments all over the world. He has built machines up to three stories tall and 120 tons, as well as table top devices.