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Adam Waldemar Skorek was born in "Krzczonów"., Poland, December 24, 1956.

He completed Master of Sciences in Electrical Engineering Program at Technical University of Białystok receiving both Master of Sciences and Engineer degree in 1980. His Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering was received at Warsaw Technical University in 1983.

Dr. Skorek is a Full Professor and Former Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.

Prof. Adam Skorek has made a distinctive contribution to advancement of engineering and science by his pioneering works on numerical modeling and simulations of electro-thermal phenomena in industrial environment.

His works on supercomputers applications to the electro-thermal applications and complex problems solutions in industrial environment ranks him near the top of those in his discipline. More specifically he is the inventor of new numerical algorithms with the use of parallel computing for the analysis of the thermal problems in electrical, electronics and nanoelectronics devices.

He has made notable contribution to the numerical analysis of electro-thermal phenomena exploring and applying as pioneer new techniques to the devices design and industrial process control. This contribution is reflected in the number of over 100 papers published and presented in journals and conferences.

Successfully approaching pure scientific considerations to the industrial reality, he has had a significant impact to the advancement of human knowledge and technological progress of the society.

He is a co-founder of the PARELEC IEEE International Conference considered as a unique and never done before engineering and computer science community event especially dedicated to the parallel computing applications in electrical engineering.

Adam is a very active Fellow Member of the Institute of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IEEE). His IEEE implications includes membership of the IEEE Awards Board (2008–2009) and the Industry Applications Society Executive Board (2001–2003 and 2005–2008) as well Chairs of the St-Maurice Section (2003–2004 and 1992–1994), Education Society Chapters Committee (1997–2001), Eastern Canada Council (1996–1997) and Education Activities Committee of the IEEECanada (1990–1992). He is recipient of the 2006 IEEE RAB Leadership Award - "In recognition of his dynamic leadership and significant contributions in promoting IEEE and the engineering profession" and 2005 IEEE Canada Wallace S. Read Outstanding Service Award - "In recognition of service to the profession and to the society".

Prof. Skorek is a man of enthusiasm, which provides him the capacity for charismatic leadership. This is perhaps demonstrated in his appointment as Head of his Department and also as Chair of the Canadian Heads of Electrical Engineering Departments but it is confirmed by his success in establishing and leading the Industrial Electroheat and NanoHeat Laboratories at his University.

His public activities includes interactions with widely famous people such politicians, journalists, actors, musicians and evidently scientists or engineers. He has served society personally with Prime Minister of Canada and Former President of the Republic of Poland. He has done outstanding contribution promoting electrical engineering profession on local, national and international media.

For his achievements Prof. Adam W. Skorek was elected to Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2009, as well as Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada in 2004. He received the Gold Cross of the Order of Merit, awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland.

His wife Marzena Skorek is an architect registered, in Province of Quebec Canada. Married in 1980, they have two children Marcin Skorek (born October 27, 1980) graduated in Mechanical Engineering at McGill University and Katarzyna Skorek (born October 11, 1982) graduated in Social Communication at Laval University.

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1. "Registered in Poland and in European Union by the Bialystok Technical University".
2. "Diploma issued by the Warsaw Technical University".
3. "Université du Québec at Trois-Rivières (UQTR), publicly available resolution number R393CA3435, May 27, 1995".
4. "Université du Québec at Trois-Rivières (UQTR), publicly available resolution number 2004-CA488-04.01-R4794, April 24, 2004".
5. "IEEE Digital Library".
6. A. Skorek, S.V. Blé, Anna Gryko-Nikitin and J. Nazarko : «Numerical parallel computation for Nanothermal Management in Nanoelectronics Systems », Canada Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Forum, "www.nanoforum.ca". , University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, June 20, 2007
7. A. Skorek, S.V.Blé, G.Anders and J.Nazarko: “Monte Carlo Algorithm for Nanoscale Electro-Thermal Optimization”, NANOTECH’2007, May 20–24, 2007, Santa Clara, California, U.S.A , ISBN 1-4200-6349-9.
8. C.Ortiz, A. Skorek, M.Lavoie, P.Benard: “Parallel CFD Analysis of Conjugate Heat Transfer in a Dry Type Transformer”, 42nd IEEE Industry Applications Annual Meeting, New Orleans, September 2007, Page(s):985 – 988, ISBN 1-4244-1260-9, ISSN 0197-2618, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/IAS.2007.152.
9. A. Skorek, A.Gryko-Nikitin, J. Nazarko: „Genetic Algorithm for Nanoscale Electro-Thermal Optimization”INTERPACK’07, The Pacific Rim/International, Intersociety, Electronic Packaging Technical/Business Conference & Exhibition, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 8–12, 2007, ISBN 0-7918-3801-3.
10. A. Lakhsasi, A. Skorek: “Dynamic finite element approach for analyzing stress and distortion in multilevel devices”, Journal of Solid-State Electronics, Vol. 46 (6), Elsevier Science, June 2002, pp.925-932, ISSN 0038-1101 "www.sciencedirect.com".
11. K.Aniserowicz, A.Skorek, C.Cossette, M.Zaremba: "A New Algorithm for Numerical Simulation of Induction Heating of Steel Cylinders", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Applications, Volume 33, Number 4, July/August 1997, pp. 893-897, ISSN: 0093-9994, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/28.605729.
12. A. Skorek: “A Parallel Approach for Electrothermal Analysis of Power Electronics Devices”, INTERPACK’97, The Pacific RIM/ASME International, Intersociety Electronic & Photonic Packaging Conference and Exhibition, Mauna Lani, Kohala Coast, Hawaii, USA, June 15–19, 1997, Epp-Vol.19-2, "Advances in Electronic Packaging, Volume 2, ASME, pp.2019-2022"., ISBN 0-7918-1559-5.
13. J.Kucharski, A.Skorek: “Parallel Architecture Application for Two Control Algorithms”, Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Cancun, Mexico, May 27–30, 1998, pp.165-168
14. P.Urbanek, A.Skorek, M. B.Zaremba: "Magnetic Flux and Temperature Aalysis in Induction Hated Steel Cylinder", IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 30, No.5, pp.3328-3330, 1994, ISSN 0018-9464, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/20.312650.
15. "Visiting Professor at the Bialystok Technical University".
16. A.Napieralski, A.Skorek, J.-M.Dorkel "A Comparative Study of Two Simulation Methods for Thermal Analysis of Power Electronic Devices", Proceedings of IEEE PELS Third Workshop on Computers in Power Electronics, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 9–11 August 1992, pp. 129- 142., Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/CIPE.1992.247285
17. A.Skorek, J.-L.Geoffroy : « Impact of Parallel Computing on Electrical Apparatus Design », Proceedings of the Electricity’96 Conference and Exposition, Canadian Electricity Association, Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 28 - May 3, 1996
18. Jean-Marc Beaudoin: "Ce polonais qui a plus que génie"., Le Nouvelliste, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada, 18 octobre 2003
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24. "IEEE Education Society".
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31. "Leadership Award".
32. "Canadian Heads and Chairs of Electrical and Computer Engineering".
33. "Research Group on Industrial Electronics".
34. "Entête".
35. "Le Nouvelliste".
36. "Radio-Canada".
37. "TV POLONIA".
38. "Interview with the Mayor of the City of Bialystok".
39. "History of the Bialystok Technical University Choir".
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43. "ICI/EIC Fellows (2004) - Professor Adam Skorek". Engineering Institute of Canada. Retrieved February 23, 2011 (2011-02-23). {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
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45. "Ordre des architectes du Québec".

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