Contact
Department of Bioresource Engineering
Office: MS1-095
Macdonald-Stewart Building, Macdonald Campus
21,111 Lakeshore Road, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, H9X 3V9, Canada
Phone: 514-398-7657
Fax: 514-398-8387
E-mail (McGill): viacheslav [dot] adamchuk [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Viacheslav Adamchuk)
E-mail (UNL): vadamchuk2 [at] unl [dot] edu
Skype: vadamchuk
URL: http://bse.unl.edu/adamchuk
Profile
Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, Dr. Adamchuk 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.
The research program led by Dr. Adamchuk has focused on the development and deployment of on-the-go soil sensing technology to enhance the economic and environmental benefits of precision agriculture. Since the beginning of his research in mid 90s, Dr. Adamchuk has developed and evaluated a fleet of on-the-go soil sensor prototypes capable of mapping physical and chemical soil attributes while moving across an agricultural field. These sensors produce geo-referenced data to quantify spatial soil heterogeneity, which allows prescribing differentiated soil treatments according to local needs. Along with sensor development, Dr. Adamchuk has conducted numeric analysis of agro-economic value of sensor-based information to aid successful deployment of the emerging on-the-go sensing technology. Through recent studies on soil and crop sensor fusion clustering he was able to further investigate some limitations discovered by early adopters.
Research
For information regarding research, power point presentations and information for previous work, please refer to the following link:
Visit the website: Viacheslav I. Adamchuk for more information.
Curriculum Vitae
Courses
- BREE 412 Machinery Systems Engineering
- BREE 430 GIS for Natural Resource Mgmt