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John E. Ross received the Associate of Arts degree in Engineering from Potomac State College, Keyser, West Virginia in 1982. He completed the Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering with emphasis in antenna and RF engineering at West Virginia University (WVU) in 1984. After graduation he worked as an assistant engineer at the Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute, Annapolis, Maryland. While he was there, he developed computer models for analyzing conformal array antennas and assisted in the development of computer programs for predicting wave propagation over rough terrain. He returned to WVU for graduate study in the fall of 1985. While there he was employed as a graduate teaching assistant and taught laboratory courses in undergraduate digital electronics. He completed course work in antennas, electromagnetic theory, mathematical methods and relativistic electrodynamics and wrote a project report entitled “AM Broadcast Antenna Engineering”. He received the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in the summer of 1987. He entered the Ph.D. program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in the fall of 1987 and spent the ensuing year working as graduate research assistant in the UM Radiation Laboratory. While there, he performed experimental research and development in microwave and millimeter wave radars and radiometers and took course work in remote sensing and coherent optics. He transferred to Michigan State University (MSU) in the fall of 1988 where he was awarded a one-year Department of Electrical Engineering Fellowship. He completed extensive coursework in advanced electromagnetics, plasmas, solid state physics, high speed circuits and numerical methods. He began working as a graduate research assistant in the Electromagnetics Laboratory in the fall of 1989 where he engaged in theoretical and experimental research on ultra wide band / short pulse radar and target discrimination techniques. He submitted a dissertation on "Application of Transient Electromagnetic Fields to Radar Target Discrimination" and received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Electrical Engineering from MSU in the spring of 1992. Dr. Ross continued his research on ultra-wide band / short pulse target discrimination and detection techniques as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at MSU for the next two years. In the spring of 1994, Dr. Ross accepted a position as a Staff Fellow at General Motors R&D Center, Warren. During his two-year stay at GM he developed sophisticated software tools for analyzing and designing vehicular antennas. In the fall of 1996, Dr. Ross accepted an academic year appointment as a Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Idaho, Moscow. He taught undergraduate courses in Electromagnetic Theory and Microwave Engineering. In 1997, Dr. Ross moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. He founded John Ross & Associates and began his career as a full-time consultant. His first client was General Motors. Subsequent customers have included numerous small and medium sized businesses, Fortune 100 companies, government agencies, and the US military. In November 2004, Dr. Ross co-founded Viamorph, Inc. with the goal of developing and commercializing a new class of smart reconfigurable antenna technology. The commercialization effort stalled in 2005, but the company continued to operate by offering engineering and custom product development services to clients in the military and commercial sectors. In 2006, Dr. Ross was appointed to the Board of Advisors at Somark Innovations, Inc. where he provides technical guidance on sensor development for a novel RFID tagging and tracking system for livestock and lab animals. Dr. Ross is the inventor of the Clearstream series of high performance HDTV antennas that are manufactured and sold by Antennas Direct, Inc. These popular, best in class, antennas are available on the web and in Best Buy stores nationwide. Dr. Ross is currently Chairman and President at Viamorph, Inc. and continues to provide consulting services through John Ross & Associates, LLC. He has co-authored numerous peer reviewed journal articles and contributed to over 35 conference and symposium papers. His current research interests are in smart antennas, computer-aided modeling, and automated design tools. Dr. Ross is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Utah and a Senior Member of IEEE. He is also a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers and the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society. |
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Last updated: July 6, 2009. |
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