Prof. Fatma Baytar has received an NSF CAREER award for her work on accelerating digitalization in manufacturing by creating a novel computational tool to facilitate rapid decision-making in apparel product development, and by designing effective training modules for the current and future workforce to strengthen their core knowledge and growth.

The NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program “offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.”