For four months he was supported by MIT's Foreign Students Summer Program and then was given a salaried job by William Weber Buechner (1914–1985).
[5][7] At MIT Enge did research in nuclear physics using a magnetic spectrograph while working with the team led by Robert J.
During this time at MIT, Enge also designed his first broad-range spectrograph, which he built when he returned to the University of Bergen.
Van de Graaff and was an internationally recognized expert on the design of magnetic spectrometers.
[2] Enge held more than 20 patents for inventions in a wide range of fields, including magnetic and electric optics, accelerators, power supplies and mass separators.