Not having a degree precludes registration... in fact, the degree must be from an engineering society accredited program, to ensure you get enough hours in fron

Not having a degree precludes registration... in fact, the degree must be from an engineering society accredited program, to ensure you get enough hours in front of a P.Eng prof or lecturer, among other things, I think. One Canadian university's Comp Sci dept. started offering Software Engineering program one time and it ended up in a lawsuit the outcome of which is... complicated. Canada is, I feel, very... lot of red tape. The traditional term "engineer" isn't even a very good description of software dev anyway. Software dev people should just make a new word up and abandon "Engineer".