Well, it seems to be in line with the general absurdity of naming conventions in anglophone computer science, since SWE is one of the few subfields of CS that a

Well, it seems to be in line with the general absurdity of naming conventions in anglophone computer science, since SWE is one of the few subfields of CS that actually uses the scientific method. However, I'm not sure where you are going with your tangent on engineering; in my mind, engineering mostly differentiates itself from the other types of academic research in the kind of question it asks: "How do we [build this]?" in contrast to "How do we [prove this]?" or "How to we [establish evidence in one direction or the other]?"