This volume contains thirteen papers and one extended abstract based on talks given at the symposium "Inverse Problems and Optimal Design in Industry" which took place from July 8 to 10, 1993, in Philadelphia. This symposium was jointly organized by ECMI an SIAM, with the cooperation of IMA (Minnesota), INRIA, and SIMA . The organizing committee was co-chaired by the editors of this volume and included, in addition, V. Boffi (SIMAI, Italy) G. Chavent (INRIA, France), D. Colton (University of Delaware, USA) and A. Friedman (IMA, USA). Financial support from the U. S. Department of Energy is...