September 8, 1995

Engineering professor wins presidential award

Dr. Mehmet C. Ozturk, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University, has received a Presidential Faculty Fellows (PFF) award.

President Clinton named Ozturk to receive the award, which is given annually to fifteen scientists and fifteen engineers who demonstrate excellence and promise in both research and teaching. Each award carries a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $100,000 a year for five years.

In 1992, Dr. Morton J. Barlaz, associate professor of civil engineering at N.C. State, was named a Fellow.

The award allows Fellows to undertake self-designed, innovative research and teaching projects, to establish research and teaching programs and to pursue other academic activities.

As a member of the Center for Advanced Electronic Materials Processing, an NSF-funded research center on Centennial Campus, Ozturk works to develop advanced semiconductor processes and devices to produce faster, denser microchips. His particular area of interest is selective deposition of thin semiconductors and metals used in silicon-based microelectronics and advanced transistor structures for logic applications.

Ozturk joined the N.C. State faculty as an assistant professor in 1988. He received his bachelor's degree in 1980 from Bosphorus University in Istanbul, Turkey, his master's degree in 1983 from Michigan Technological University, and his doctoral degree in 1988 from N.C. State, all in electrical engineering.

Ozturk lives in Cary with his wife Dr. Hatice O. Ozturk, a visiting assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering at N.C. State, and their son Berk, a second grader at Briarcliff Elementary.

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