Accomplished engineer, educator and researcher Vuk M. Fatic, an emeritus faculty member in electrical and computer engineering, passed away recently. He was 92.
A native of Pancevo, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Fatic was the son of Marko V. and Nelka (Vuletic) Fatic. He did his undergraduate work in electrical engineering at Belgrade University, and worked as a research engineer at Vojno Tehnicki Institute in Belgrade and an assistant at the University of Novi Sad in Yugoslavia before coming to the United States in 1970.
He earned an M.S. and Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1973 and 1976, respectively.
He joined Union in 1985 as a visiting assistant professor of electrical engineering and was appointed associate professor in 1995 and professor in 1996. He retired in 2008.
In addition to Union, Fatic taught at Tri-State University in Angola, Ind., and the Rose-Hulman Institute Technology in Terre Haute, Ind.
He was renowned as an expert in the application of variational principles to network theory. His fields of specialization also included field theory and applied mathematics.
Fatic was a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a member of Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi. His interests included jazz music and literature. He was predeceased by his wife of 42 years, Nada (Dragic) Fatic, who died in 2012.