Table of Contents

Introduction to Additive Manufacturing and Related Applications.- The Growing Need for Training and Education for AM.- "What's in a word?" –The use and background for terms and definitions in additive manufacturing.- Professional Training of AM at the European Level.- Case Studies of Using Additive Manufacturing for Prototyping in Design.- Knowledge transfer and standards needs in Additive Manufacturing.- What you need to take into account during your design for Additive Manufacturing.- Continuing education and part-time training on Additive Manufacturing for people in employment.- Additive Manufacturing through Problem Based Learning.- Additive Manufacturing: Instrumental Systems in Research, Education and Service.- Introducing state-of-the-art AM research in Education.- XIII: Measuring the cost of Additive Manufacturing.- Training and Teaching Strategies for Medical Applications of Additive Manufacturing Systems.- IPRs and 3D Printing.- AM validation methods, technology transfer based on case studies.- FoFAM and AM-Motion Initiatives: A strategic framework for additive manufacturing deployment in Europe.

About the Author

Dr Eujin Pei is the Programme Director for the Product Design and Product Design Engineering courses at Brunel University London. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a Chartered Technological Product Designer (CTPD) with the Institution of Engineering Designers. He worked as a Product Designer possessing considerable expertise in leading and managing industrial collaborative projects. He is the Convenor for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) TC261/WG4 committee that is responsible for Data Transfer and Design Standards for Additive Manufacturing, and Chair of the British Standards Institute AMT/8 committee for Additive Manufacturing. He is the Managing Editor for the Progress in Additive Manufacturing Journal, and Associate Editor for the Assembly Automation Journal and the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. He is also an editorial board member of the Rapid Prototyping Journal.

Professor Mario D. Monzón Verona is a Doctor in Industrial Engineering and full Professor in Mechanical Engineering department of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University. He has been working in the academic field of Manufacturing processes since 1989. He is in charge of the research group “Advanced and Integrated manufacturing” which main research activities are focused on polymer processing, additive manufacturing/rapid tooling (electroforming), natural fibres applied to composites and technical textiles, biomaterials for additive manufacturing and micro-manufacturing.

Professor Alain Bernard graduated in 1982, PhD in 1989, was associate-Professor, from 1990 to 1996 in Centrale Paris. From Sept. 1996 to Oct. 2001, he was Professor in CRAN, Nancy I, in the “Integrated Design and Manufacturing” team. Since 0ct. 2001, he has been Professor at Centrale Nantes and Dean for Research from 2007 to 2012. He is a researcher in LS2N laboratory (UMR CNRS 6004) leading the “Systems Engineering –Products-Processes-Performances-” team. His research topics are KM, PLM, information system modeling, interoperability, enterprise modeling, systems performance assessment, virtual engineering and additive manufacturing. He supervised 30 PhD students and has published more than 250 papers in refereed international journals, books and conferences. He is the vice-President of AFPR (French Association on Rapid prototyping and Additive Manufacturing), vice-chairman of WG5.1 of IFIP (Global Product Development for the whole product lifecycle) and member of the CIRP Council. He is also scientific adviser on Engineering Sciences at the French Ministry for Higher Education and Research.