Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Tech Conferences andComputers and Information in Engineering Conference-September 9-12,2001, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Printed compilation of 149full-length, peer-reviewed technical papers on the followingtopics: Virtual reality in design; Decision based design; Agentbased design; Finite element modeling; Product families andplatforms; Computer -aided design system and frameworks; Geometricmodeling; Rapid manufacturing.