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So if you have your PE license and are writing software that controls a commercial airplane system or a spacex rocket, you are not an engineer doing software en

• hospitalJail 3y ago
  Ahh I forgot to put my usual caveat. Assembly and safety critical C can be considered software engineering. Anything with abstraction, no.
  • SirMaster 3y ago
    I agree that far too many people call themselves software engineers when they really aren't. But I just mean to say that software engineering itself is definitely still a real thing and there are many people out there that can and should call themselves software engineers.
• 9659 3y ago
  From Wikipedia: "A software engineer is a person who applies the engineering design process to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate computer software." "The engineering design process, also known as the engineering method, is a common series of steps that engineers use in creating functional products and processes. The process is highly iterative - parts of the process often need to be repeated many times before another can be entered - though the part(s) that get iterated and the number of such cycles in any given project may vary. It is a decision making process (often iterative) in which the basic sciences, mathematics, and engineering sciences are applied to convert resources optimally to meet a stated objective. Among the fundamental elements of the design process are the establishment of objectives and criteria, synthesis, analysis, construction, testing and evaluation.[1]" It is not dependent on the problem domain, rather on how the work is performed.