Living in a country where engineer is a protected title, and studying toward a degree in computer engineering that grants the title, I don't quite understand th

Living in a country where engineer is a protected title, and studying toward a degree in computer engineering that grants the title, I don't quite understand the problem. If you have an engineering degree (or have the required qualifications where it's not protected), you are an engineer. If you don't, you are not. Yeah, every programmer isn't an engineer. But some of them are.