Background
Engel, Joel was born on April 27, 1936 in Tel Aviv. Son of Theodore and Edith (Hess) Engel.
Engel, Joel was born on April 27, 1936 in Tel Aviv. Son of Theodore and Edith (Hess) Engel.
He then moved to New Jersey and worked for Bell Labs most of his active research career (1959-1983), and also earned a Doctor of Philosophy from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn on a thesis on data transmission over telephone lines (1964).
Born in New York City, he obtained a Bachelor of Science in engineering at City College of New York (1957). While working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the research staff at Draper Laboratory on inertial guidance and stabilization systems, he also obtained an Master of Science in electrical engineering (1959). He then worked at Bellcomm on guidance systems for the Apollo Program (1965) and at Page Communications Engineers in Washington, District of Columbia (1965-1967) before returning to Bell Labs where he joined the mobile phone system research group.
He also lectured at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
After the Federal Communications Commission (Federal Communication Commission) opened up new frequencies (1968), his engineering team developed the architecture for cellular network and its parametrization (1971), which was the basis for Advanced Mobile Phone System, eventually commercialized (1983). After a rotation at American Telephone & Telegraph Company (1973-1975), Engel returned to Bell Labs as a Department Head with responsibilities for a broad range of projects.
Engel later joined Satellite Business Systems (1983-1986) as VP of engineering, and became VP of research and development at Microwave Communications Incorporated Communications (1986-1987), when Microwave Communications Incorporated acquired Business School. He was VP of technology and Chief Technology Officer at Ameritech (1987-1997). He is currently president of JSE Consulting of Armonk, New New York
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Married Irene Potaskin, October 11, 1965. Children: Dan, Amir, Avner.