Proceedings of the Design Engineering Technical Conference andComputers and Information in Engineering Conference, September28-October 2, 2004, Salt Lake City, Utah. Collection of 104full-length, peer-reviewed papers presented at the following mini-conferences: 9th Design for Manufacturing Conference (DFM);Symposium of Integration of Materials Microstructure and Chemistryin Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (IMDO); 16th InternationalConference on Design Theory and Methodology (DTM) and 2nd Symposiumon International Issues in Engineering Design (IED).