Kurt Maute

Kurt Maute
Associate Professor
H. Joseph Smead Fellow
Assoc Chair, Dept Aerospace Engrg Sc
Director, Ctr for Aerospace Structures
Site Director, Ctr for Research and Education in Wind
Dept of Aerospace Engineering Sciences
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0429
Phone: (303) 735-2103
maute@colorado.edu

Education

Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 1998
Dipl.-Ing. Aerospace Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 1992

Professional Experience

since 2010	Assoc. Chair, Department for Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder
since 2008	Director, Center for Aerospace Structures, University of Colorado at Boulder
since 2006	Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder
2000-2006	Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder
1998-1999	Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder
1992-1998	Research Assistant, Institute of Structural Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Awards (selected)

H. Joseph Smead Fellow (2006)
Dean’s Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty (2005)
NSF Career Award (2004)
Award for Excellent Research, University of Stuttgart (1998)

Research Interests

Structural topology and shape optimization, multidisciplinary optimization, optimization of aeroelastic systems, adaptive discretization methods in structural optimization, optimization of materially nonlinear structures