Joel S. Engel

Stanley Joel Engel ( born February 4, 1936 in New York City ) is an American engineer and pioneer in the mobile technology.

Engel received his bachelor's degree in 1957 in electrical engineering from the City College of New York and his master's degree in 1959 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories (in digital data transmission over analog telephone lines ) and received his doctorate in 1964 at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Then he was off to Bellcomm, the guidance systems for space tools developed in the Apollo program ( because he had worked at MIT ). In 1967, he was at Bell Labs back and worked on early mobile. His group developed the architecture and specification of the U.S. standard Advanced Mobile Phone Service. 1973 to 1975 he was in the planning department of the parent company of Bell Labs, ATT, and after his return to the Bell Labs where he had responsibilities in technical management. In 1983, he was Vice President of Engineering for Satellite Business Systems and after its merger with MCI in 1986 Vice President of Research and Development at MCI Communications. In 1987, he was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Ameritech, which he remained until 1997. He is Chairman of JSE Consulting in Armonk (New York).

2013 he received with other mobile pioneers like Richard H. Frenkiel the Charles Stark Draper Prize. In 1980 he became IEEE Fellow and 1987 he received the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal with Frankel and William C. Jakes. In 1994 he received the National Medal of Technology and he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1996.