Stephen
Yurkovich
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University
Campus Address:
Department of
Electrical Engineering
The Ohio State University
2015
phone: (614) 292-2586
fax: (614) 292-7596
yurkovich.1@osu.edu
s.yurkovich@ieee.org
Personal Information
Steve Yurkovich received the B.S. degree in 1978, in
engineering science, from Rockhurst University in
In January 2001, Professor Yurkovich was elected to the grade of IEEE Fellow. In 2000 he was awarded the IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Member Award, and an IEEE Third Millennium Medal.
Professor Yurkovich’s research, published in more than 150 books, journal articles and conference papers, includes work in the areas of system identification and parameter set estimation for control, nonlinear and adaptive control, and fuzzy logic for control, in application areas including automotive systems, chemical process control, welding processes, and flexible mechanical structures. He is one of the founders of the Control Research Laboratory, and serves as the Education Director of the Center for Automotive Research. Prof. Yurkovich teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate level courses in control theory, and has authored several textbooks in the area of control systems at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
In addition to being General Chair for the 1996 Conference on Control Applications, Program Chair for the 1997 American Control Conference, and General Chair for the 1999 American Control Conference, he has held numerous positions within the IEEE Control Systems Society: He is past chairman of the Standing Committees on Student Activities and on Publications, is an elected member of the Board of Governors, was an Executive Officer in 1993, Vice-President for Publication Activities (1995-96), and was Vice-President for Financial Activities in 1997. In 1998 he served a one-year term as President-Elect of the IEEE CSS. In 1999, he was the IEEE CSS President. For six years (1993-1998) Professor Yurkovich served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Control Systems
He has been married for 26 years to Patricia McMahon Yurkovich, and has two sons: Benjamin Joseph (BJ), who is 16 years old, and James Thomas, who is 12 years old. Personal interests include playing golf at every possible opportunity, playing basketball with other old men, painting (acrylics and oils), investments (buying high, selling low), and fatherhood (scouting, soccer, baseball and basketball coach, and so on). Random, rambling thoughts on life, reprinted from Control Systems Magazine editorials, are also available; investigate at your own risk.
Latest update on this page: December 2002