What about those 'Financial Engineers' in Wall Street? Are they qualified to be called engineers? Creating software is as much an engineering activity as any

What about those 'Financial Engineers' in Wall Street? Are they qualified to be called engineers? Creating software is as much an engineering activity as any other traditional engineering disciplines. So yes, Software engineer is an appropriate title. On the other hand, plenty of licensed PE's have never worked in an engineering environment, but they got licensed anyway, simply because they got an engineering degree and worked in a so called related field (such as business, LOL!!). I've seen too many of those. I would not take the PE title seriously.