This was actually something that my course (one of the first computer engineering degrees in Portugal) struggled with back in 1994. Engineering guilds (and gov

This was actually something that my course (one of the first computer engineering degrees in Portugal) struggled with back in 1994. Engineering guilds (and governments) are simply not able to cope with the concept of software being critical, but the key thing at the time was that software engineering was not even acknowledged as “engineering” by the local Engineering guild (which was stuck in a loop around the physicality of civil, electronics and mechanical engineering). They still haven’t figured it all out.