KurtÌýMaute
- Professor
- Palmer Engineering Chair
- Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
- AEROSPACE MECHANICS RESEARCH CENTER (AMREC)

Focus Area
Structural & Material Systems
Education
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, with highest honors, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 1998
Dipl.-Ing. Aerospace Engineering, with highest honors, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 1992
Professional Experience
2023 - Present, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, College of Engineering and Applied Science, 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó
2012 - Present, Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó
2012 - 2014, Associate Dean for 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó, College of Engineering and Applied Science, 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó
2006 - 2012, Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó
2000 - 2006, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó
1998 - 2000, Post-doctoral 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó Associate, Center for Aerospace Structures, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó
1992 - 1998, 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó Associate, Institute of Structural Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Awards (selected)
Palmer Endowed Chair (2016 - Present)
OutstandingÌý91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó, Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (2016)
Joseph Negler Professorship (2011 - 2016)
H. Joseph Smead Faculty Fellow (2006 - 2011)
Dean's Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty, College of Engineering & Applied Science, 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó at 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó (2005)
NSF Career Award (2004)
Award for Excellent 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó Interests
Structural topology and shape optimization, multidisciplinary optimization, optimization of aeroelastic systems, adaptive discretization methods in structural optimization, optimization of materially nonlinear structures