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This open access book offers a timely snapshot of Augmented Reality (AR) technology, with an emphasis on its application within the mechanical and manufacturing engineering domains, for both educational and industrial purposes. Reporting on the experience of the authors, the book introduces readers to the principles of product design, with an emphasis on modern strategies and approaches for user-centered design, creativity, and design for manufacturing and sustainability. It guides to the application augmented reality and visualization techniques in the design process. In turn, it describes an AR mobile application developed by the authors to transform 2D drawings into dynamic 3D objects. The book also includes exercises. All in all, this book offers a practice-oriented guide to  Augmented Reality applications in mechanical engineering and education, addressing advanced undergraduate students, lecturers, and professionals in the engineering field.  This is an open access book.

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"Prof. Vitalii Ivanov, DSc., Ph.D., ING.PAED.IGIP, Head of the Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Machines and Tools, and Director of the Research and Educational Center for Industrial Engineering at Sumy State University. He was awarded a Scholarship of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for Young Scientists (2011 and 2014), a Fellowship for a Research Internship from the Ministry of Education and Science, Youth and Sports of Ukraine (2011 and 2012), The National Scholarship of the Slovak Republic (2015, 2017, and 2022), JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Fellowship (2016), The Ulam NAWA Programme (2022), and State Prize of the Supreme Council of Ukraine for Young Scientists (2022). Prof. Ivanov carried out research, completed internships, and gave lectures in Germany, the USA, Slovak Republic, Poland, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, the Czech Republic, Romania, China, etc. Furthermore, he participated in research projects funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the State Fund for Fundamental Research, and Ukrainian manufacturing companies. He also has experience coordinating and co-coordinating research projects funded by TEMPUS, Erasmus+, Czech Development Agency, DAAD, Gene Haas Foundation & Haas Automation, and Japan International Cooperation Agency. Since 2019, Prof. Vitalii Ivanov has been a Member of the Advisory Board for Research Evaluation at the University of West Bohemia (Czech Republic). Since 2020, he has been a Member of the Experts’ Team of the Invention Support Fund of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine and an Expert of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on the State Certification of Scientific Institutions. In 2021, Prof. Ivanov became an International Member of the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program “Innovative Engineering Technologies for Industrial Sustainability – IETIS” at the University of Salerno (Italy). In 2022, he became a Member of the Expert Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on certification of scientific personnel in Manufacturing Engineering. Prof. Ivan Pavlenko, DSc., Ph.D., ING.PAED.IGIP, Professor of the Department of Computational Mechanics named after Volodymyr Martsynkovskyy. Head of the Coordinating Council of Sumy State University and Vice Dean for the Scientific Work of the Faculty of Technical Systems and Energy Efficient Technologies at Sumy State University (Sumy, Ukraine),  Professor Pavlenko is also a member of the International Association of Technological Development and Innovations (Ukraine), the European Alliance for Innovation (Belgium), the International Society of Engineering Pedagogy (Austria), and the European Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology (France). Furthermore, he serves as an Expert of the National Research Foundation of Ukraine, and of the Ministry of Education of Science of Ukraine in aerospace technology and transport. Author of more than 100 articles indexed by the Scopus and Web of Science databases, Editor-in-Chief of the “Journal of Engineering Sciences”, Editorial Board Member of journals “Acta Logistica” and “Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering”, he is also a Steering Committee Member of the international scientific conferences “Design, Simulation, Manufacturing: The Innovation Exchange (DSMIE)” and “Grabchenko’s International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing Processes” (InterPartner)”, as well as invited reviewer of peer-reviewed scientific journals published by Elsevier, Springer, and MDPI. In 2022, he was included in the TOP 2% of the most cited scientists (Elsevier) in energy, artificial intelligence, and engineering. Also, he was awarded by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. His main research activities are in mechanical, manufacturing, and chemical engineering. Ivan Pavlenko has recent developments in parameter identification of mechanical systems and technologicalprocesses, ensuring the vibration reliability of rotary machines and the application of artificial intelligence systems. Dr. Artem Evtuhov, Ph.D., Vice Dean for the Educational and Organizational Work of the Faculty of Technical Systems and Energy Efficient Technologies and Associate Professor of the Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Machines and Tools and at Sumy State University (Sumy, Ukraine). Artem Evtuhov is a member of the International Association for Technological Development and Innovations (Ukraine) and the International Association of Engineers (Hong Kong). He is the author of more than 50 scientific papers, patents, and didactic materials. His research activity deals with the development of manufacturing systems and technological processes. Dr. Justyna Trojanowska, Ph.D. Eng., Doctor of Engineering in the scientific discipline of mechanical engineering, assistant professor at Poznan University of Technology (Poznan, Poland), vice-deanfor cooperation with industry at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and  series editor of the Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (Springer). Her research activities concern production scheduling, production management, Lean Manufacturing, Theory of Constraints, and Six Sigma. She is also a member of the Polish Association for Production Management, the Polish Economic Society, the International Association for Technological Development and Innovations, and the Product Development and Management Association. Author of numerous publications in the area of mechanical engineering and production engineering, Dr. Trojanowska is participating in numerous international conferences, and acting as a reviewer of scientific articles published in ISI Master Journals. She is also a member of the scientific committees of various international conferences. She is cooperating with foreign research centers, and taking part in projects and scientific works conducted for production companiesand aimed at improving production processes. She has also been one of the responsible person for the work package 5  “Training, Research & Development for Industry-oriented problems”, aimed at reinforcing the University-Business cooperation, and organised by EUNICE ""European University for Customised Education""."

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