Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferencesand Computers and Information in Engineering, September 30-October4, 2002, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Printed compilation of 117full-length, peer-reviewed technical papers on the followingtopics: Optimization, Topology, Multi-Objective; Crash-Safety,Analysis, Dunamics and Vibrations; Decision-Based Design,Collaborative Design, Platforms; Uncertainty, Meta-Modelling,Design of Experiments; Virtural Reality, Manufacture, RapidPrototyping; Genetic Algorithms, Ceccomposition; Simulation,Parameter Estimation, Mechanisms; Product Families, ConceptualDesign, Robustness; Visualization,CAD, Geometric Modelling; ProcessManagement, Information.