SPE may refer to:

Science and technology

  • A monomer used to make polysulfobetaines, or occasionally the resulting polymer itself
  • Serum protein electrophoresis
  • Solar particle event, generating very high energy protons
  • Solid phase extraction, from a mixture
  • Solid-phase epitaxy, from amorphous to crystalline
  • The Sound Pattern of English, a 1968 book by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle
  • SpE, abbreviation for Sporadic E propagation
  • Spe (planet), 14 Andromedae b
  • Stanford prison experiment, in psychology
  • Synchronous payload envelope, in synchronous optical networking

Computer science

  • Synergistic Processing Element in the Cell microprocessor
  • Signal-Processing Engine, for example in the PowerPC e500
  • Single-Pair Ethernet

Organizations

  • Sauber Petronas Engineering, car engine manufacturer
  • Societas Privata Europaea, a Europe-wide type of limited company
  • Sony Pictures Entertainment, a US company
  • SPE, later Luminus (company)
  • Special Police Establishment, later Central Bureau of Investigation, India
  • Special purpose entity, for a specific purpose

Professional societies

  • Society for Photographic Education
  • Society of Petroleum Engineers
  • Society of Plastics Engineers
  • Society of Professional Engineers UK

Other

  • US supervisory patent examiner
  • SPE Certified, a food standard
  • Setiawangsa–Pantai Expressway, an expressway in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Société Parisienne d'Édition (S.P.É.), a French publisher

Gaming

  • Seasonal Player Experience, a self imposed challenge in Realm of the Mad God

See also

  • Spes (disambiguation)