The employment of the virtual reality technology in engineering education: A case study.

Virtual reality (VR) is gaining popularity in a variety of fields, including gaming, driving, training for the aviation and medicine. The hopeful and encouraging role that virtual reality (VR) can play in engineering programs is the main topic of this study. Numerous manufacturing methods have seen fast development and innovation, particularly in laser processing, additive manufacturing, and printed electronics. These discoveries show how Industry 4.0 technology can be used to create smart, fully automated manufacture of products that is supervised and controlled by robots and computers. Engineering students need to be trained and equipped for the next generation of computerized equipment in order to comprehend and design such systems, which may not be available in every educational setting. The biomedical and aerospace industries can develop customized, one-of-a-kind items using Additive Manufacturing (AM) because of its exceptional capacity to produce parts with complicated geometry. In addition to processing materials that are difficult for machines to process, such as titanium, nitinol, and magnesium alloys, flexible designs can be utilized. However, due to its high initial cost, high running skill requirements, and access challenges brought on by health and safety standards, additive manufacturing (AM) is not a common manufacturing method in the education of engineering students. This paper describes the use of a VR lab to address this issue and give the students access to a VR-based accelerated manufacturing lab where they may experience the whole build process and complete assignments quickly and, most importantly, safely. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]