

Beaman joined The University of Texas at Austin faculty in 1979 after receiving his Sc.D. Professor Joseph Beaman, University of Texas at Austin Yavuz Murtezaoglu met his wife Hava, an architect, while studying in Aachen. Yavuz Murtezaoglu focused on generating value for production engineering by developing sophisticated software algorithms and trained more than 200 software developers in his company in this domain.ĭr. Throughout his complete professional career, Dr. Yavuz Murtezaoglu, to prevent damage to running machines. Many Machine Tool Vendors and CNC control makers use the real-time Collision Avoidance System developed by ModuleWorks, the company founded by Dr. Yavuz Murtezaoglu has hugely contributed to broad usage of 5 axis continuous machining in manufacturing by developing and providing 5-axis tool path planning algorithms and making them embeddable into the majority of CAD/CAM systems. With his passion for discovery and under the supervision of Professor Fred van Houten and Professor Ian Gibson, Yavuz Murtezaoglu earned his doctorate from the University of Twente in 2021 for the thesis “Process Planning for Additive Manufacturing”.

In 1997, he came back to Germany and co-founded his first company. After graduating in 1994 from the Technical University of North Rhine-Westphalia (RWTH) in Aachen, Germany, he first worked as a software developer in Houston, Texas.

Murtezaoglu studied electrical engineering and worked at the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering WZL Aachen. Founder and Managing Director of ModuleWorks GmbH, Germanyĭr.
