I strongly disagree. Engineering is the study and practice of problem analysis and design synthesis. Whether that means using abstractions of the physical worl

I strongly disagree. Engineering is the study and practice of problem analysis and design synthesis. Whether that means using abstractions of the physical world or how data is structured and processed is unimportant. Any approach to the understanding of problems and how to solve them is engineering. Sometimes it's very structured, sometimes it deals with the physical world - and other times it's incredibly abstract and divorced from the real world. It's all engineering.