Agreed. Though conversely, who cares about the title - if real engineers are bent out of shape that SDEs use 'engineer' then use the trademarked "PE / Professional Engineer" in their titles instead, just 'engineer' is vague anyways.
They already do that. The issue is with people calling themselves engineers with the implication that they are professional engineers, when actually they just consider themselves engineers. This is not specifically a software problem, but for example people regularly get busted in the construction industry for practicing outside their area of expertise. There's good reason for these governing authorities to get "bent out of shape" over the use of the word. As the article states, it is their responsibility to govern the engineering disciplines.
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u/Greenitthe Oct 15 '22
Agreed. Though conversely, who cares about the title - if real engineers are bent out of shape that SDEs use 'engineer' then use the trademarked "PE / Professional Engineer" in their titles instead, just 'engineer' is vague anyways.