Neuroscience Faculty

Ross has major responsibility for the application of engineering techniques to define and resolve instrumentation problems. This normally involves the combination of commercially available equipment, machined mechanical parts and design of a digitally controlled analog circuit, most often including a microprocessor or interfacing to a digital computer. Ross also is the instructor for the Psychology Department graduate course called Electronics Instrumentation.

Some of Ross's more notable designs include:
A. Photon counting micro-spectraphotometer for Dr. T.P. Williams
B. An 8-channel micro dispensing system for Dr. J.C. Smith
C. Metabolic Environmental chambers for pigeons for Dr. M.E. Rashotte
D. Visual stimulator for Dr. M.A. Berkley
E. Mechanical skin impedence instrument for Dr. D. Kenshalo

Rashotte, M.E., Saarela, S., Henderson, R.P., & Hohtola, E. (1999). Shivering and digestion-related thermogenesis in pigeons during dark phase. American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 277: R1579-R1587

Overton, J.M., Williams, T.D., Chambers, J.B., Henderson, R.P., & Rashotte, M.E. (1999). Increased caloric intake elevates energy expenditure, heart rate and blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rates. Hypertension, 33:370 (Abstract).