The International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) is an international non-profit organization with the objective of encouraging the wider development, distribution and application of Online Engineering (OE) technologies and its influence to the society.

IAOE proclaims a growing complexity of engineering tasks, increasingly specialized and expensive equipment as well as software tools and simulators.

As a consequence, it is increasingly necessary to allow and organize a shared use of equipment, but also specialized software as for example simulators.

Aims of the association in general are: This includes the promotion of: The International Journal of Online Engineering is the official publication of IAOE.

[2] IAOE also runs the scientific journal hosting platform Online-Journals.org, thus aiming at contributing to the advancement of science by providing an efficient and cost-effective way for making qualitative scientific results easily accessible to the largest possible audience.