Dr. J. Michael Golio

Michael Golio is the Director of the RF/Power Design Center at Rockwell Collins. The work of the Center focuses on acquisition and development of RF and Power electronics for commercial and military avionics, GPS, and wireless applications. Specific emphasis is placed on microwave and millimeter-wave receivers and transmitters, frequency control circuits, antennas and power conversion.

Dr. Golio received his BSEE degree from the University of Illinois in 1976. He worked for two years in the Microwave Tunable Devices Organization at Watkins-Johnson before returning to school to complete his MSEE and PhD degrees at North Carolina State University in 1980 and 1983 respectively. His graduate research focused on microwave devices, non-linear models and carrier transport. Upon completion of his graduate work, he served as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University before joining Motorola Government Electronics Group in 1986. There he directed research on characterization, parameter extraction and modeling of non-linear microwave devices. This research resulted in several publications including the book "Microwave MESFETs and HEMTs" and a large signal parameter extraction software package, "GASMAP". In 1991, he moved to Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector to develop a GaAs fabrication facility to address commercial products including chips for cellular phones, digital pagers and wireless LANs.