Ross Corotis
Professor Emeritus • Professional Engineer (PE)
Structural Engineering & Structural Mechanics • Civil Systems
corotis@colorado.edu
303-735-0539

Office: ECOT 452

Education:

  • S.B. Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967
  • S.M. Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968
  • Ph.D. Civil Engineering (Structural Mechanics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971

Honors and Distinctions:​

  • ASCE Shinozuka medal, 2023.
  • Fellow, Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE, elected 2021
  • American Society of Civil Engineers Lifetime Achievement Award in Education, 2019
  • Charter Fellow, Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE, elected 2013
  • ASCE Distinguished Member, elected 2011
  • Jefferson Science Fellow, U.S. Department of State, 2008-2013
  • University of Colorado Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award, 2006
  • International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability, Distinguished Research Prize, 2005
  • CU Discovery Learning Center Dedication, 2002
  • CU Boulder Distinguished Alumnus Award, 2000
  • ASCE Maryland Outstanding Engrg Educator, 1992
  • NSPE Baltimore Engineer of the Year, 1989
  • ASCE Maryland Sect Civl Engineer of the Year, 1986
  • ASCE Walter H. Huber Research Prize, 1984
  • Northwestern Univ Tech Inst Teaching Award, 1977
  • NSF Graduate Fellowship, 1967–1969

Professional Affiliations:

  • American Society of Civil Engineers
  • Civil Engineering Risk and Reliaibility Assocation
  • Internatinoal Assoc for Bridge Management & Safety
  • International Assoc for Struct. Safety and Reliab.
  • National Institute of Building Sciences

Interests:

  • Structural system reliability
  • Probabilistic code formulation
  • Societal trade-offs of risk
  • Natural hazards and policy decision-making

Recent Publications:

  1. Seites-Rundlett,William, Ross Corotis and Cristina Torres-Machi (2022). “Development of a Protocol for Engineering Applications of Evidence Theory,” ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering, 8(3), September, DOI: 10.1061/AJRUA6.0001241.

  2. Seites-Rundlett, William, Mohammad Z. Bashar, Cristina Torres-Machi and Ross Corotis (2022). “Combined Evidence Model to Enhance Pavement Condition Prediction from Highly Uncertain Sensor Data,” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 217, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2021.108031.

  3. Corotis, Ross, Craig Davis and Keith Porter (2022). “Community Resiliency Infrastructure and Sustainability Protocol,” Infrastructure Resilience Publication No. 5, Lifelines 2022, 767-777, ASCE, Reston, Virginia.

  4. Corotis, Ross, Benjamin Corotis and Lindsay Corotis (2020). “STEM Retention: A Retrospective of Three Civil Engineers,”  Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, Invited Contributions to STEM, 21(3), 2020, 58-62.

  5. Corotis, Ross, Holly Janowicz, Daniel Straub and Karl Breitung (2020). “Combinatorial Analysis for Probabilistic Assessment of Dependent Failures in Systems and Portfolios,” Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 61, July 1, 2020: ARTN 103066.

  6. Seites-Rundlett, William, Elena Garcia, Alejandra Alvarez, Cristina Torres-Machi and Ross Corotis (2020). “Social Indicators to Inform Community Evacuation Modeling and Planning,”), ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering, DOI: 10.1061/AJRUA6.0001069.

  7. Arneson, Erin, Amy Javernick-Will, Matthew Hallowell and Ross Corotis (2020). “Predicting Post-Disaster Residential Housing Reconstruction Based on Market Resources,” ASCE Natural Hazards Review, 21(1), February.

  8. Ballent, Wendy, Ross Corotis and Cristina Torres-Machi (2019). “Dempster Shafer Theory Applications in Post-Seismic Structural Damage and Social Vulnerability Assessment Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure,” Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, Taylor and Francis, Abingdon, United Kingdom, 11 March 2019, doi.org/10.1080/23789689.2019.1583488, 5(4).

  9. Ballent, Wendy, Ross Corotis and Cristina Torres-Machi (2019). “Representing Uncertainty in Natural Hazard Risk Assessment with Dempster Shafer (Evidence) Theory,” Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, Taylor and Francis, Abingdon, United Kingdom, 10 January, doi.org/10.1080/23789689.2018.1542213, 4(4).

  10. Corotis, Ross (2018). “Planning for Community Resilience under Climate Uncertainty,” Interdisciplinary Issues Related to Climate Change and its Impacts, Colleen Murphy, Paolo Gardoni and Robet McKim, Eds., Springer, Cham, Switzerland.