In the last decades Product Engineering became more and more a multidisciplinary field including aspects from a wide range of scientific areas, still treated distinctly within the research institutions. Aspects related to the environment, aesthetic style, human factors and ergonomics are now critical issues for the success of a product on the market. The Advanced Summer Institute on "Product Engineering: Eco-Design, Technologies and Green Energy" focused on some of these topics with a particular attention paid to the aspects relevant for the environmental protection.

In this context, this book is structured on five chapters, covering the topics of Eco-Design, Computer Aided Design, Simulation Technologies, Robotics and Manufacturing and Green Energy.

Eco-Design is the main topic of the book. This methodology penetrates all aspects of design following the stream of waste and resource consumption across the whole product life cycle. This is the reason for which this subject was privileged including five lectures and three selected contributions that treated the eco-aspects from various perspectives: from the management and integration of the environmental impact information into the product life cycle and business environment, to the human aspects in the man-machine relation and aesthetics style, as part of the human natural environment.

The Computer Aided Design (CAD) topic is included with two lectures and two selected contribution focusing mainly on conceptual design aspects which are of crucial importance for the next generation of CAD systems. In the same idea new ways of interaction between the user and the CAD environment, e.g.