Hillel Wayne's crossover project [0] is a great read for anyone interested in the question of whether we're really engineers. The tl;dr is that most engineers h

Hillel Wayne's crossover project [0] is a great read for anyone interested in the question of whether we're really engineers. The tl;dr is that most engineers he interviewed who switch from a licensed engineering discipline to software totally consider software engineering to be just as much an engineering discipline as what they did before, and there are a lot of neat ideas he develops for ways we can learn from each other. Another great resource I've found is Practical Engineering. Listening to his videos it's easy to see how much overlap there is between our ways of thinking and interacting with the world. As for the legal side, as others have noted in most of the US "engineer" in the abstract isn't legally protected. So there's no legal problem with using the title, and engineers who've done both don't consider our practices to be somehow lesser. [0] https://www.hillelwayne.com/tags/crossover-project/ https://www.hillelwayne.com/tags/crossover-project/