[July 25, 2005] AWR's Dr. Joseph Pekarek Named MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer of the Year; Founder and CTO Recognized for Innovation in Software Design and Outstanding Achievement in Entrepreneurship Tweet EL SEGUNDO, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- July 25, 2005 -- Applied Wave Research, Inc. (AWR(R)), a leading provider of high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) tools, today announced that the company's founder and chief technology officer, Dr. Joseph Pekarek, was named the Microwave Theory and Techniques Symposium (MTT-S) Outstanding Young Engineer of the Year. The award was made on June 15 at the annual IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Awards Banquet in Long Beach, California. The award honors an outstanding, young MTT-S member under the age of 39 who has been distinguished through technical achievement(s) and/or exemplary service to the MTT-S. Dr. Pekarek was recognized for his innovation in software design and his outstanding achievement in entrepreneurship. "I was working on the development of advanced MMICs at Hughes Aircraft in the early 1990s and was frustrated by the inadequacy of many of the leading, high-frequency EDA tools available at the time," said Dr. Pekarek. "In 1994 I decided to go back to school to earn my Ph.D. at UCLA and simultaneously launched AWR with the intent of developing a completely new approach to designing high-frequency circuits. The result was AWR's highly successful, flagship product, Microwave Office(R) design suite." Through his vision of a better way, Dr. Pekarek is responsible for the development of the AWR Design Environment(TM) core technology. This revolutionary approach supports all design domains in a single platform, ensuring complete design closure, shortening cycle time, and enabling easy integration with industry-leading EDA tools. Today, AWR is recognized worldwide as a leading provider of high-frequency EDA software, generating approximately $15 million in sales per year. Under Dr. Pekarek's technical leadership, AWR has received Top Product awards in 1998 and 2002 from Microwaves & RF magazine and in 2002 from EDN magazine. In addition, the company was an EDN Innovation Award finalist in 2002 and was a 2004 Software Developer of the Year Award finalist for the Southern California Software Council. Dr. Pekarek holds a patent for a coplanar waveguide quadrature coupler and has three system simulation patents pending. About Applied Wave Research, Inc. Applied Wave Research is a leading supplier of high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) products for the design of: wireless telecommunications equipment, semiconductors, high-speed computers, networking systems, automotive mobility systems, and a variety of other electronics-based products. AWR is a privately held company and has development offices, sales offices, training centers, and global distribution. AWR launched its first product in 1998 and today has over 500 customer companies worldwide, including virtually every major high-frequency electronic component and system supplier. The company is headquartered at 1960 East Grand Avenue, Suite 430, El Segundo, California 90245. For more information about AWR and the company's products, please visit www.appwave.com or call 310-726-3000. AWR, the AWR logo, and Microwave Office are registered trademarks and AWR Design Environment is a trademark of Applied Wave Research, Inc. All other registered marks are the property of their respective holders. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]