> People sometimes wonder if software wouldn't get better (boy technologically and socially) if software engineering was a licensed profession. In some countri

> People sometimes wonder if software wouldn't get better (boy technologically and socially) if software engineering was a licensed profession. In some countries such as Canada, it is a licensed profession and if you refer yourself as an engineer without holding a PEng you can have legal action taken against you. However, all this has done is make it such that nobody actually holds a software PEng. The only software PEng I know works at the university nearby and I've never met a colleague with designation. Everyone gets a SEng degree but knows no PEng to do a mentorship under so never gets designated. Lack of participation is likely a contributor to being an underdeveloped field. General public confusion from positions in the USA that wildly throw around the title "software engineer" for non-PEng doesn't help.