1. A historical perspective on industrial production and outlook 2. Digital product design and engineering analysis techniques 3. Design methodologies for conventional and additive manufacturing 4. Additive manufacturing for digital transformation 5. Simulation and optimization for additive manufacturing 6. Polymer materials for additive manufacturing 7. Metal additive manufacturing 8. The emerging frontiers in materials for functional three-dimensional printing 9. Three-dimensional (3D) printing for building and construction 10. Process monitoring and inspection
Chandrakant D. Patel is a Chief Engineer and Senior Fellow at HP Inc., United States. He is a pioneer in thermal and energy management in data centers and in applications of the information technology to drive available energy management at city scales. He currently leads the HP Global Technical Community, and he also leads the strategic selection of technologies in light of the social, economic, and ecological megatrends that are shaping our future. His current technical interests are focused on leveraging his multidisciplinary past work to develop the 21st century cyber physical systems such as HP's 3D Print Engines.
Chun-Hsien Chen is a Full Professor at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he is also Director of the Design Stream and Professor-in-Charge of the Design & Human Factors Laboratory. He has several years of product design and development experience in industry. His teaching and research interests are in collaborative/human-centric, consumer-oriented product design and development, knowledge engineering, design sciences, engineering informatics, and artificial intelligence in product/engineering design. He has more than 280 publications in these areas.