Selected, peer reviewed papers from the II Especial Symposium on New Frontiers in Materials Processing Training and Learning, July, 2010, Santander, Spain

This special issuepresents and discusses recent developments aimed at deploying disciplines within ME and MPTs in current engineering curricula. The papers here included have been selected from those presented to the Especial Symposium of identical title, during the 22nd University Educational Innovation Congress on Technical Education (XXII CUIEET), held in Almaden (Spain) in September 2014. These cover topics related with new trends, experiences, methodologies and case studies, as well as the use of virtual tools and environments to help teaching and learning in different areas of Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Processing Technologies.

Materials processing engineering is currently considered to be an interdisciplinary engineering field. Learning and training in materials processing must therefore be accompanied by diverse sets of workshops and practical laboratory experiments. In general, the equipment which is required to be available in these laboratories or workshops is very expensive and can become obsolete within a few years. On the other hand, the continual evolution of materials inevitably drives change. However, innovative education techniques, based upon information and communications technologies, are currently under development, with the aim of improving the teaching of materials processing. Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).This special collection, New Frontiers in Materials Processing Learning and Training, reports the latest developments and original applications, theoretical research and case studies in the innovative education field, as applied to Materials Processing Engineering and Technology. This work will favour the future development of new learning and training techniques in other disciplines.

Selected, peer reviewed papers from the III Especial Symposium on New Frontiers in Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Processing Training and Learning, July 18-20, 2012, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

This special issue presents and discusses recent developments aimed at deploying disciplines within Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Processing Technologies in current engineering curricula. The papers here included have been selected from those presented to the Especial Symposium of identical title, during the 24th University Educational Innovation Congress on Technical Education (XXIV CUIEET), held in Cadiz (Spain) in September 2014. These cover topics related with new trends, experiences, methodologies and case studies, as well as the use of virtual tools and environments to help teaching and learning in different areas of Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Processing Technologies.