ÖzÜ’s FIRST INVENTORS LUNCH

The Technology Transfer Office organized the First Traditional ‘OzU Inventors Lunch’ on February 17, 2015 to honor our academicians who made the highest number of invention disclosures in the last year. This event is intended as an additional motivation for faculty members to increase the number of inventions in the university. This year Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bahar Başım Doğan, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Arık, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Göksenin Yaralıoğlu, and Assist. Prof. Dr. Özkan Bebek received their plaques as Inventors of the year 2014. We congratulate them for their hard work, innovative ideas, and technological contributions to ÖzÜ!

The organization started with a lunch at L’Atelier Bleu Restaurant in OzU. During the lunch, the Inventors had a chance to talk about their patented technologies in an informal platform and discussed the problems they have encountered. After the lunch Mr. Hüsnü Özyeğin presented the Inventors with their plaques. Mr. Özyeğin was pleasantly surprised when Prof. Dr. Esra Gençtürk presented him with a plaque for his continuing support of innovation in ÖzÜ. We would like to extend our gratitude to Mr. Hüsnü Özyeğin, Prof. Dr. Esra Gençtürk, Prof. Dr. Reha Civanlar, Prof Dr. Tanju Erdem, and Mr. Turan Sert, and the members of the Startup Factory and the TTO to make the lunch meaningful and fruitful.

Following the lunch, Mr. Özyeğin and the group visited the Inventor’s laboratories to explore the prototypes of the patented technologies and to find out any needs or demands of the Inventors to continue and extend their research activities. The attendees are amazed by the CMP technology, and new technologies on fabrics at Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bahar Başım Doğan’s lab (Nano-Prox Lab); the new LED solutions, and cooling fan technologies at Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Arık’s lab (Evateg Lab), the smart robotics technologies including a robot which carries out a biopsy, and a robotic hand which owns an artificial intelligence interface at Assist. Prof. Dr. Özkan Bebek’s lab (OzURobotics Lab); and finally the portable ultrasound technology which can be connected to the cellphones at Assoc. Prof. Dr. Göksenin Yaralıoğlu’s lab (OzUMems Lab).

Once again, we thank Mr. Hüsnü Özyeğin and all the faculty members who attended the organization and congratulate the successful inventors!