Mike Haji-Sheikh received the interdisciplinary Ph.D. degree in engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, in 1993. He joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Northern Illinois University (NIU), DeKalb, and is a Researcher at NIU’s Microelectronics Research and Development Laboratory (MRDL) and the Laboratory for Nanoscale Science and Engineering Technology (LNSET). He joined NIU’s faculty after spending nine years at Honeywell’s Sensor Fabrication Facility, Richardson, TX. With his colleagues at the Richardson Sensor Fab, he has developed more than 25 sensor products as he was an active Production Engineer overseeing the wafer-level C4 process, platinum deposition, and the UltraTech 1 x Steppers. He holds eight patents and has several more pending. Prior to receiving the Ph.D. degree, he was with the Composite Materials Test Laboratory at Bell Helicopter for two years, where he
