I have done both hardware and software engineering, and I see no difference. It is difficult to put into words, but I would say that the heart of engineering i

I have done both hardware and software engineering, and I see no difference. It is difficult to put into words, but I would say that the heart of engineering is the discipline of understanding how and why something is useful, as distinguished from feelings or hopes about its utility. An MFA in software is pretty much the opposite of engineering. Engineering is not a matter of taste or opinion, it is about creating such hard sparkling truths that opinion would be superfluous.