I agree with almost all of your point, but a small nit pick: >Economists don't call themselves engineers and engineers don't call themselves economists. There

I agree with almost all of your point, but a small nit pick: >Economists don't call themselves engineers and engineers don't call themselves economists. There are quite a few universities that offer courses/degrees in "financial engineering" and they often are in the mathematics/economics colleges and don't have a typical engineering curriculum as you laid out.