I dispute that. Mechanical engineering isn't physics and neither is electrical engineering. Chemical engineering isn't chemistry (it is, in fact, more thermo- a

I dispute that. Mechanical engineering isn't physics and neither is electrical engineering. Chemical engineering isn't chemistry (it is, in fact, more thermo- and fluid-dynamics). So, in the same way, software engineering isn't computer science. At best, it has a relationship analogous to that between applied mathematics and pure math.