Fair point. Maybe the term engineering has a tradition of being used in contexts that are not associated with hard science. Another example: the term "software

Fair point. Maybe the term engineering has a tradition of being used in contexts that are not associated with hard science. Another example: the term "software engineering" was invented to point out the lack of scientific foundation for programming practices and to motivate the community to fix that. Or maybe it's just me associating engineering with hard science.