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Dr. Ross specializes in heavy equipment failure analysis, crane, hoist and aerial devices accident investigation, mechanical and structural system assessment, machine design and guarding issues, product design review, and aviation accident reconstruction. His research expertise includes structural analysis, vibration and impact studies, fracture mechanics, explosion dynamics, and stability performance. Dr. Ross has drawn upon this background and experience to direct a variety of research projects and failure investigations dealing with agricultural, construction, industrial, and marine machinery problems; equipment control modeling; high-speed ground transportation studies; and ice-hydraulic structure interaction. Prior to founding Failure Analysis Associates, Dr. Ross was employed as a mechanical-structural engineer in the aircraft industry by General Dynamics, Canadair, and McDonnell Douglas. He was also an engineering program manager at Stanford Research Institute from 1965–1970. Dr. Ross currently serves Stanford University as a Consulting Full Professor in the School of Engineering, where he teaches a successful graduate course titled, “Techniques of Failure Analysis.” He travels internationally, lecturing on the topic of failure analysis and accident investigation. Dr. Ross has published more than 50 technical papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings. He has been invited to present more than 135 seminars, lectures, and talks before university audiences, trade groups. engineering society meetings, insurance and claims agents conferences, and attorney-state bar organizations.
- Senior Research Engineer and Program Manager, Stanford Research Institute (SRI), 1965–1970
- Vibration and Dynamics Engineer, Supersonic Concorde Project, ONERA, France, 1960
- Stress Analyst, Douglas Aircraft Company, 1959
- Structural Test Engineer, Canadair Division, General Dynamics Corp., 1956
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (member)
- Society of Automotive Engineers (member)
- American Society of Safety Engineers (member)
- National Society of Professional Engineers (member)
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (member)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers Design Engineering Division, Stress Analysis and Failure Prevention Committee (member)
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- Ph.D., Aeronautical Engineering, Stanford University, 1965
- M.Sc., Aeronautical Engineering, Stanford University, 1959
- B.M.E., Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, 1957
- Certificate of Advanced Engineering Study (Mechanical Engineering) Cornell University
- NSF Post Graduate Program (Advanced Engineering Mechanics), Brown University, 1968
- Research Fellow, Office National de Recherches Aerospatiales (ONERA), Paris
- Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Civil Engineering, University of Santa Clara
- Consulting Professor, School of Engineering, Stanford University
- Advanced Fracture Mechanics Short Course, Etech, Pasadena, CA, 1995
- Licensed Professional Mechanical Engineer, California, #ME15637
- Licensed Professional Engineer, New York, #PE75184
- French
- Spanish
- German
- Italian
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