Journal of Computational Design and Engineering is an international journal that aims to provide academia and industry with a venue for rapid publication of research papers reporting innovative computational methods and applications to achieve a major breakthrough, practical improvements, and bold new research directions within a wide range of design and engineering: • Theory and its progress in computational advancement for design and engineering • Development of computational framework to support large scale design and engineering • Interaction issues among human, designed artifacts, and systems • Knowledge-intensive technologies for intelligent and sustainable systems • Emerging technology and convergence of technology fields presented with convincing design examples • Educational issues for academia, practitioners, and future generation • Proposal on new research directions as well as survey and retrospectives on mature field.