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Title: The use of virtual reality in manufacturing education: State-of-the-art and future directions
Innovative technologies such as virtual reality and additive manufacturing have been drastically changing our society, from how we design and manufacture products to how to educate and train the next-generation workforce. This paper reviews scientific studies on virtual reality assisted manufacturing education published from 2015 to 2022 from three different perspectives: targeted manufacturing disciplines/topics, virtual environment development, and outcome evaluation methods. This paper also summarizes the critical limitations of existing studies and identifies the key challenges in the field. Furthermore, some future research directions are discussed aiming to advance current manufacturing education and deliver a highly skilled workforce for U.S. future manufacturing.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2202598
PAR ID:
10507452
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
ScienceDirect
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Manufacturing Letters
Volume:
35
Issue:
S
ISSN:
2213-8463
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1214 to 1221
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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