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Avraam Chatzopoulos
Assistant Professor
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xatzopoulos@uniwa.gr |
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+30 210 538 1288 |
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ZA106, 1st Floor, Building Z (Wing Α') |
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Full CV |
Avraam Chatzopoulos is a Lecturer at the Department of Industrial Design and Production Engineering at the University of West Attica. He holds a BSc in Automation Engineering, an MSc in Telematics Management (Danube University of Krems - Austria), an MSc in Information and Communication Technologies for Education (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), and a Ph.D. (University of West Attica).
He has taught for several years in many educational institutions (TEI, KEK, KES, IEK, TEE, EAB, etc.), with special experience in adult education and holds an adult educator certification from the EOPPEP, the GGEE, and EKEPIS of the Ministry of National Education and Religions.
For more than 15 years he has worked as a freelancer in a significant number of IT and automation projects, especially in the design of applications based on microcontrollers and the development of web applications. He has written educational books and articles in new technology magazines.
In 2017 he founded the Robotics Academy of the A.E.I. Piraeus T.T. for training and research in Educational Robotics - STEM Education and the development of educational robots for use in Primary and Secondary education. Since 2000 he has been involved in the development of Mechatron (educational robotics platform for university education), while in 2005 he was a member of the research team that received a Patent on "Self-propelled polymorphic test base for laboratory training in robotics and micro-controllers" from the Industrial Property Organization.
Research Interests
- Embedded systems with an emphasis on automation, Mechatronics applications, and small-scale educational robotic systems
- Educational Robotics
- STEM Education
- Educational Technologies
Undergraduate Courses
6004 Microcontroller-based System Design
7001 Mechatronics
9001 Robotics
9002 Self-Driving Vehicle Design
