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- Title
GRADUATE OF RIGA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, ENGINEER, INVENTOR AND ATHLETE ARNO LĪCIS.
- Authors
LANKA, ĒRIKA; ZIGMUNDE, ALĪDA
- Abstract
The article summarizes the career of a graduate of the Faculty of Mechanics (1964) of Riga Polytechnic Institute Arno Līcis. The article reveals and describes his work while being an engineer at the Riga Electromachine Building Factory (RER), at the Latvian Scientific Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics (LSRITO) and in the printing house «Jāņa sēta», as well as being an inventor. It has been discovered that he had promoted orienteering sports and had significant achievements in competitions of various scale, including mass competition named «Magnēts» managed by him, which had been taking place since 1969. This is the first research on the life and professional activities of engineer A. Līcis, which is dedicated to his 80th birthday to be celebrated in July 2019. Data from the personal archive of A. Līcis, documents of the Latvian State Historical Archives and the collection of the National Library of Latvia are collected in this article.
- Subjects
RIGA (Latvia); TECHNICAL institute graduates; ENGINEERS; ORIENTEERING; TECHNICAL institutes
- Publication
History of Engineering Sciences & Institutions of Higher Education, 2019, Issue 3, p91
- ISSN
2592-8643
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7250/HESIHE.2019.007