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it depends. In New Zealand you can get an accredited engineering degree, majoring in software engineering, and thus be entitled to call yourself an engineer. If
by tjpick 17y ago
it depends. In New Zealand you can get an accredited engineering degree, majoring in software engineering, and thus be entitled to call yourself an engineer. If you have one of those and you're writing software, using appropriate an engineers mindset (ie focus on quality, reliability etc), "software engineer" is good. You can go even further and become a "chartered engineer".
Otherwise it doesn't really matter, but probably shouldn't be "software engineer".
YMMV.
- benhoyt 17y agoA fellow Kiwi, sweet! Incidentally, I do have an electrical engineering degree. I didn't major in software in my degree, but I have in my job (I like programming more than circuit design, I guess :-). Still, it seems to me the term "software engineer" is used pretty loosely these days -- many "software engineers" have computer science degrees.
- tjpick 17y agoI agree. I have the aforementioned qualification, but call myself a developer for several reasons.