The focus of ICAE is the integration of leading edge and emerging computer and information technologies for innovative solution of engineering problems. The journal fosters interdisciplinary research and presents a unique forum for innovative computer-aided engineering. It also publishes novel industrial applications of CAE, thus helping to bring new computational paradigms from research labs and classrooms to reality. Areas covered by the journal include (but are not limited to) artificial intelligence, advanced signal processing, biologically inspired computing, cognitive modeling, concurrent engineering, database management, distributed computing, evolutionary computing, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, geometric modeling, intelligent and adaptive systems, internet-based technologies, knowledge discovery and engineering, machine learning, mechatronics, mobile computing, multimedia technologies, networking, neural network computing, object-oriented systems, optimization and search, parallel processing, robotics virtual reality, and visualization techniques.

ICAE的重點是集成前沿技術和新興的計算機和信息技術，以創新解決工程問題。該雜志促進跨學科研究，并為創新的計算機輔助工程提供了一個獨特的論壇。它還發布了CAE的新型工業應用，從而幫助從研究實驗室和教室實現新的計算范式。期刊涵蓋的領域包括（但不限于）人工智能、高級信號處理、生物啟發的計算、認知建模、并發工程、數據庫管理、分布式計算、進化計算、模糊邏輯、遺傳算法、幾何建模、智能和自適應系統、基于互聯網的技術、知識發現和工程、機器學習、機電一體化、移動計算、多媒體技術、網絡、神經網絡計算、面向對象系統、優化和搜索、并行處理、機器人虛擬現實和可視化技術。