Ross B. Corotis

Title: Denver Business Challenge Professor of Engineering
Group: Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics
Office: ECOT 452
Phone: 303-735-0539
E-mail: corotis@colorado.edu

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

Website: http://bechtel.colorado.edu/~corotis/

Honors and Distinctions:

  • NSF Graduate Fellowship, 1967–1969
  • Northwestern Univ Tech Inst Teaching Award, 1977
  • ASCE Walter H. Huber Research Prize, 1984
  • ASCE Maryland Sect Civl Engineer of the Year, 1986
  • NSPE Baltimore Engineer of the Year, 1989
  • ASCE Maryland Outstanding Engrg Educator, 1992
  • CU Boulder Distinguished Alumnus Award, 2000
  • National Academy of Engineering, 2002
  • CU Discovery Learning Center Dedication, 2002

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