Collection
Recent Advancements in Machining
Editors
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Ismail Lazoglu
He has been a faculty member at Koç University Mechanical Engineering Department since 2000. He is the founder and director of Koç University Manufacturing and Automation Research Center (MARC). He received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University (1989) and his MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering (1992, 1997) from Georgia Institute of Technology. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in various scientific and industrial projects in the fields of advanced manufacturing and automation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the USA and at the University of British Columbia in Canada.
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Erhan Budak
After receiving B.Sc. (1987) and M.Sc. (1989) in Mechanical Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Dr. Budak completed his Ph.D. (1994) at the University of British Columbia in Manufacturing Automation Lab. He then worked for Pratt & Whitney Canada as manufacturing development engineer until 2000 focusing on turbine engines. He joined Sabancı University as a faculty member in 2000 and founded Manufacturing Research Lab (http://labs.sabanciuniv.edu/mrl/). In 2003, he was awarded the Taylor Medal by CIRP (www.cirp.net) for his work on high performance machining of turbine engine impellers and blisks.
