Footwear Innovation: From Conceptual Design Through to Advanced Manufacturing Techniques

Footwear Innovation: From Conceptual Design through to Advanced Manufacturing Techniques is an essential guide for understanding technological advancements in the footwear industry. The book offers a detailed exploration into foot biomechanics, deformities, and machine learning's role in identifying users' needs. It serves as a comprehensive resource for footwear designers, manufacturers, and entrepreneurs. The book is divided into six parts: foot problems and biomechanics; ideation and design methodologies; advanced tools like Reverse Engineering, CAD/CAS/CAE, Augmented/Virtual Reality, and Artificial Intelligence; manufacturing technologies including 3D printing and robotics; risk assessment and usability testing; and finally, sustainability and entrepreneurship in footwear innovation.

Kamalpreet Sandhu, MEng. is an Assistant Professor in the Product and Industrial Design Department at Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab. His primary focus is on design and development of footwear products and injury prevention. He has worked on projects in Podiatric Medicine at the Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, DRDO, Delhi i.e., Designed and developed new kind of orthosis for social needs. This work resulted in the publication “Effect of Shod Walking on Plantar Pressure with Varying Insole”. His areas of research are 3D printing, Ergonomics and Human Gait Analysis. He is also an Editor of Books, SPRINGER NATURE “Emerging Application of 3D printing during Covid19 pandemic, Sustainability for 3D Printing, Application of 3D printing in Biomedical Engineering and Food Printing: 3D printing in Food sector. He also acts as an Editorial Review board member for the “International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI) and the Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal (ASTESJ). He is working in collaboration with Prof. Karupppasamy Subburaj, Medical Engineering and Design (MED) laboratory, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).

Karupppasamy Subburaj, PhD. is an Assistant Professor and the lead for the Healthcare Engineering and Design track in the Engineering Product Development (EPD) Pillar at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) since 2014. He leads the Medical Engineering and Design (MED) laboratory, an interdisciplinary research group specializing in design and development of medical devices, medical imaging and image analysis methods, and computing tools for diagnosing, treating, and potentially preventing musculoskeletal disorders and disabilities. Recognizing that collaborative bridges between different disciplines are the key to advancement in research, he brings basic scientists, clinical researchers, design engineers, and physicians together to conduct clinically relevant research and translate it to patient care. He is also passionate about design education and teaching and received the SUTD Outstanding Education Award: Excellence in Teaching (2019) for his contributions. His research resulted in 4 patents, 2 books, 50 peer-reviewed technical articles in highly referred international journals, and 80 international conference articles and presentations. Subburaj received his doctorate (2019) from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and postdoctoral (2010-2014) research training in Musculoskeletal Quantitative Imaging Research laboratory in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).

Dr. Madhusudan Pal, Scientist-G, Department of Ergonomics, Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), has assumed charge as Director, Center of Excellences (CoEs). Dr. Pal holds M Sc. and Ph D degrees in Human Physiology from Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal and Diploma in Ergonomics from National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai. As a keen researcher and a thorough academic, Dr. Pal has developed seven technologies, transferred to Industrial partner for commercialization and most of the technologies used by Central Armed Police Force (CAPF). Dr. Pal has published about 60 publications in peer reviewed journals/conference proceedings and protected 19 intellectual properties through Design registration, patent and copy right.

Prabir Sarkar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. He is the founder chairman of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) cell of IIT Ropar. Before joining IIT Ropar, he worked as an Associate Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Commerce Gaithersburg, USA. He completed his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore in Design Creativity. He did his Master of Design also from IISc on Product Design and Engineering. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications. He is an editorial board member of Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, Emerald and is a reviewer of several journals and conferences. Dr. Sarkar secured jointly funding of more than 100 crores from various external funding agencies. He is currently a fellow of the Institute of Engineers, India.

Sunpreet Singh is researcher in NUS Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Initiative (NUSNNI). He has received Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, India. He has contributed extensively in additive manufacturing literature with publications appearing in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Composite Part: B, Rapid Prototyping Journal, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, Measurement, International Journal of Advance Manufacturing Technology, and Journal of Cleaner Production. He has authored more than 150+ research papers and book chapters. He is also editor of 3 books- "Current Trends in Bio-manufacturing", “3D Printing in Biomedical Engineering”, and "Biomaterials in Orthopaedics and Bone Regeneration - Design and Synthesis". He is also guest editor of several journals- special issue of “Functional Materials and Advanced Manufacturing”, Facta Universitatis, series: Mechanical Engineering (Scopus Indexed), Materials Science Forum (Scopus Indexed), and special issue on “Metrology in Materials and Advanced Manufacturing”, Measurement and Control (SCI indexed), Materials, Sustainability (MDPI).