"Computer engineering" isn't vocational. It's an entire sub-specialty involving hardware theory and application. "Programming" is the vocational shift which was

"Computer engineering" isn't vocational. It's an entire sub-specialty involving hardware theory and application. "Programming" is the vocational shift which was traditionally outside the purview of academic curricula. You're not engineering anything if you don't have a repeatable process that will deliver expected results. Programming alone doesn't meet that bar.