This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering, CDVE 2016, held in Sydney, NSW, Australia, in October 2016. The 42 full papers and 9 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers cover a broad range of topics in the field of cooperative visualization, visual analytics, cooperative engineering, and cooperative design and applications. .