Brian Lynn Steward

Brian L. Steward is Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University. Dr. Stewardteaches in the areas of dynamic systems modeling and simulation, fluid power engineering and technology,computational intelligence, and sustainable engineering. His research focuses on the areas of dynamic systemsand sensing for agriculture and biosystems, precision agriculture, and field automation and mechatronics at theinterface of machine and environment. He provides leadership to international programs within the ABE Departmentincluding coordination of student exchange programs with Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais,Brazil, Federal University of Campina Grande, Paraiba, Brazil and study abroad trips to Brazil. He is a member ofthe American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers in which he been an associate editor for seven yearsand currently chairs the Resource Editorial Board. He has a total of 177 technical publications including 35 refereedjournal articles and 44 invited talks. He has received more than $4.8 million in grants and contracts as a principalinvestigator or co-principal investigator. He received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from South DakotaState University, and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.