CAE may refer to:
Aviation
- CAE Aviation, a Luxembourgian aviation services company
- CAE Inc. a Canadian manufacturer of simulation technologies and training provider
- Columbia Metropolitan Airport, IATA airport code CAE, in West Columbia, South Carolina, United States
- Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, or Regional CAE, a subsidiary airline of Air France
Computing
- Common Application Environment, from X/Open Portability Guide, a specification for Unix-like operating systems
- Computer-aided engineering, computer software to aid in engineering tasks
Education
- Centre for Adult Education, an adult education course provider in Melbourne, Australia
- Center for American Education (disambiguation), an old name for American-style institutions in countries including the UAE and India
- Certificate in Advanced English, the fourth level of the University of Cambridge ESOL examination
- College of Advanced Education, a now abolished tier of Australian tertiary institutions
- College of Aeronautical Engineering, part of the Pakistan Air Force Academy
Engineering
- Canadian Academy of Engineering, the national academy of Canada for engineering
- Chinese Academy of Engineering, the national academy of the People's Republic of China for engineering, established in 1994
- Compressed air engine, a 200-year-old type of pressure pneumatic actuator that does work by expanding compressed air
- Computer-aided engineering, the broad usage of computer software to aid in engineering analysis tasks
Management
- Certified Association Executive, a designation for not-for-profit and non-profit association professionals
- Chief audit executive, or Director of audit, a high level independent executive with overall responsibility for Internal audit
Media
- Critical Art Ensemble, collective of tactical media practitioners of various specializations
- Radio Canadian Army Europe, Radio CAE, from World War II and the 1950s & 1960s, now replaced by Canadian Forces Radio and Television
- Continental Aviation and Engineering, a US aircraft engine maker that later became Teledyne CAE
Medicine
- Caprine arthritis encephalitis, a disease in goats
- Childhood absence epilepsy, a childhood seizure disorder
- Carbonic anhydrase enzyme, that catalyzes the interconversion between carbon dioxide and water and the dissociated ions of carbonic acid
Other uses
- Central African Empire, a short-lived empire in Central Africa
- Child Abduction Emergency, or AMBER Alert
- Standard IAU abbreviation for the constellation Caelum