CAE may refer to:
Organisations
Aviation
- CAE Aviation, a Luxembourgian aviation services company
- CAE Inc. (formerly Canadian Aviation Electronics), a Canadian manufacturer of simulation technologies and training provider
- Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, a former subsidiary airline of Air France
- Continental Aviation and Engineering, a US aircraft engine maker that later became Teledyne CAE
Economics
- Conseil d'Analyse Économique, a French government advisory body
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
- College of Advanced Education, a now abolished tier of Australian tertiary institutions
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
- College of Aeronautical Engineering, part of the Pakistan Air Force Academy
Science and technology
- Compressed air engine, a type of pressure pneumatic actuator using expanding compressed air
- Computer-aided engineering, the broad usage of computer software to aid in engineering analysis tasks
- Caelum (Standard IAU abbreviation), a constellation
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
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
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
Places
- Columbia Metropolitan Airport (IATA airport code), West Columbia, South Carolina, United States
- Central African Empire, a short-lived empire in Central Africa
- Caernarfonshire (Chapman code), historic county in Wales
Other uses
- Certificate in Advanced English, the fourth level of the University of Cambridge ESOL examination
- Chief audit executive, or Director of audit, a high level independent executive with overall responsibility for internal audit
- Child Abduction Emergency (SAME code), or AMBER Alert
- Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913–1916, a Canadian Arctic Expedition