Greiner received all of his degrees from the University of Madison-Wisconsin … (and) upon receiving his doctorate he was appointed assistant professor of electrical engineering in that department. He was promoted to associate professor in 1959 and to full professor in 1961 at … His research of and expertise in included many fields through his professional life: electronics, vacuum tube design, transistor design, solid state devices, acoustics, digital signal processing, digital control systems, acoustic noise control and others. In addition to his teaching and research he took a leave from teaching from 1973 to 1980 to serve as senior academic planner in Academic Affairs in the UW System Administration.