I would agree that there is an artfulness, for lack of a better term, in engineering. However, there is a lot of science and math i.e. structural engineering t

I would agree that there is an artfulness, for lack of a better term, in engineering. However, there is a lot of science and math i.e. structural engineering that underlies building a structure that is safe and won’t fall down. Admittedly it still does happen from time to time due to mistakes or things that might have been misunderstood, e.g. the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. The field of software engineering is very nascent and is still in need of the underlying science and math foundations like you find in other engineering disciplines. Unfortunately methodologies like Agile and Waterfall seem to have become synonymous with software engineering.