CarlosÌýFelippa

  • Professor Emeritus
  • AEROSPACE MECHANICS RESEARCH CENTER (AMREC)
Address

Office Location: AERO 350

Focus Area

Structural & Material Systems

Education

Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1966
M.S., Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1964
Ingeniero Civil, University Nacional de Cordoba (Argentina), 1963

Professional Experience

2020 - Present, Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado
1986 - 2020, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado
1989 - 1991, Director, Center for Space Structures and Controls
1971 - 1976, Research Scientist; 1976-1980, Staff Scientist; 1980-1986, Senior Staff Scientist, Applied Mechanics Laboratory, Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA.
1968 - 1969, Research Specialist; 1969-1970, Research Engineer, Structural Analysis Research Group, The Boeing Co., Commercial Airplane Division, Seattle, WA.
1964 - 1966, Research Assistant; 1966-1968, Post-Doctoral Research Associate; Department of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

Awards (selected)

IACM Computational Mechanics Award (2010)
Elected Permament Member-at-Large, USACM Executive Committee (2007)
NASA Software Development Award (2007)
Computational Sciences Award, USACM (1999)
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship Award, (1996)
NTNF ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·ing Scholar Fellowship (1993)
SAE Arch. T. Colwell Merit Award, (1993)
McDonell Douglas Foundation Award to establish SDCL, (1991)
AGARD Lecturer - ONERA, France and LTAS, Belgium (1988)
Duarte y Quir'os prize to top Ingeniero Civil graduate, (1963)

Research Interests

Nonlinear and dynamic structural analysis, finite element methods, software architectures for engineering computations, parallel processing. Special interest in coupled field problems: elastoacoustics, aeroelasticity, control-structure interaction, thermomechanics and electrothermomechanics