...as the chief technical advisor to the company's CEO, Manlio Allegra. In this role, Dr. Enge will leverage his deep experience in technology and academic fields to provide the fast-growing company with strategic guidance regarding its location technology, intellectual property, and research partnerships with universities and other technology vendors. Dr. Enge is a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, where he is the Kleiner-Perkins, Mayfield, Sequoia Capital Professor in the School of Engineering. He directs the GPS Research Laboratory, which develops satellite navigation systems based on the Global Positioning System (GPS). Dr. Enge is co-author of the textbook Global Positioning System: Signals, Measurements, and Performance , which is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to GPS and has received the Kepler, Thurlow and Burka Awards from the Institute of Navigation (ION) for his work. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering as well as a Fellow of both the ION and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1983, where he designed a direct-sequence multiple-access communication system that provided an orthogonal signal set to each user.
"We are very proud to have Dr. Enge join us as chief technical advisor at a time of significant growth in our business," said Manlio Allegra, president, CEO and co-founder of Polaris Wireless. "His unmatched expertise in global positioning and state-of-the-art location systems, and strong connection to Stanford University, our valued research partner, will make an invaluable contribution to our technical and strategic efforts."