Viacheslav I. Adamchuk

Viacheslav I. Adamchuk, originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, has obtained a Mechanical Engineering degree from the National Agricultural University of Ukraine in his hometown. Later, he received both MS and PhD degrees in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana). Soon after graduation, Dr. Adamchuk started his academic career as a faculty of Biological Systems Engineering Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Lincoln, Nebraska). There, he taught university students, conducted research, and delivered outreach programs relevant to precision agriculture, spatial data management, and education robotics. Also he was involved in OECD tractor testing program and developed a methodology to validate the accuracy of tractor auto-guidance systems. After almost ten years of work in Nebraska, Dr. Adamchuk has started his new appointment in Bioresource Engineering Department at McGill University (Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada), while keeping his adjunct status at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Publications

Robots in K-12 Education: A New Technology for Learning
Robots in K-12 Education: A New Technology for Learning
Bradley S. Barker, Gwen Nugent, Neal Grandgenett, Viacheslav I. Adamchuk. © 2012. 402 pages.
Educational robotics provides students with a learning environment that has the potential to successfully integrate concepts within science, technology, engineering, and...