> Actually Quebec is one place where the regulating body has been most successful controlling the use of Engineer as a title (and that isn't saying much). I ha

> Actually Quebec is one place where the regulating body has been most successful controlling the use of Engineer as a title (and that isn't saying much). I hate repeating myself, but here again: there's no laws that surround specifically software engineer. I'm not arguing they doesn't have good laws around the engineer title, I even mention that I can't use the title of engineer because I don't pay for it. What I'm arguing is that there's no laws that surround specifically software engineer. That title is meaningless and doesn't give us any power over our own works. It doesn't protect our works, thus it doesn't allow us to takes responsibility over it. In the case of the Therac 25, the software was done for the previous hardware and reused over the newer one. Even if the software engineer was against doing that, there's nothing in his power to stop that. I don't know if the electrical engineer has more power and could have done it in the Therac 25 situation, but as far as I know, only civil engineers require signature over their works to proceed.