I mean, EE’s often go and design toys and other little frivolous things that aren’t safety critical. I think we should not pin the Engineer title on something l

I mean, EE’s often go and design toys and other little frivolous things that aren’t safety critical. I think we should not pin the Engineer title on something like safety or importance, that is probably why people wanted to be Software Engineers in the first place. Because it sounds important. Having done the EE curriculum and then gone to program instead (to make my bias apparent), IMO the engineer’s distinction is that they work in a model, the bounds of the model are well known, the model isn’t all of physics, and the model is simplified enough that work can be checked within it. The brilliance of engineering is that you can do productive work, on hard tasks, without being brilliant.