I'm with you on this. My personal definition of an engineer involves designing systems that can potentially kill humans or other creatures. If you design pacem

I'm with you on this. My personal definition of an engineer involves designing systems that can potentially kill humans or other creatures. If you design pacemaker software, you're an engineer. If you build RESTful websites, you're not. I say that as someone who builds RESTful websites. The reason engineers need difficult certification exams is, so they don't destroy lives or expensive property. There was a programming PE (USA) at some point, but it was closed.