Within British Columbia at least, the "practice of professional engineering" means the provision of advice or services that are based on an engineering discipli

Within British Columbia at least, the "practice of professional engineering" means the provision of advice or services that are based on an engineering discipline, or ancillary to those. "Engineering discipline" means "agricultural, biomedical, bioresource, biosystems, building, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, food, forest, geological, geomatics, industrial, marine, mechanical, mechatronics, metallurgical, mining, naval architecture, nuclear, petroleum, software and structural engineering and engineering physics". So professional licensing is required for any provision of advice or services relating to software engineering (etc), including services internal to a company. And a professional engineer is required to stamp any documents containing engineering content that are expected to be relied on by others. (I'm not disagreeing with you. You don't need to be a professional engineer to have a circuit board made or a part machined. But you might need to stamp your design drawings as part of a certification process, or if others will be relying on them).