As a former professional embedded design engineer, I'm not terribly swayed by arguments that "real engineering" involves licenses from the state. Nor do I thin

As a former professional embedded design engineer, I'm not terribly swayed by arguments that "real engineering" involves licenses from the state. Nor do I think that personal liability is a great avenue for moving the needle here, as that would really just be creating indirect regulation through insurance companies (with a specific focus on what the Professional Engineer might be found liable for), while creating an ongoing tax (the insurance premiums) for anyone involved in such work. Why not just write and mandate those codes directly? something like the National Electric Code but focused on best practices for setting up secure control networks. (And while the NEC does enter into the PE dynamic, there is plenty of work subject to the NEC but that doesn't involve a PE)