No, the license allows one to offer engineering services to the public and the PE title is granted in recognition of that right. It is generally illegal to call

No, the license allows one to offer engineering services to the public and the PE title is granted in recognition of that right. It is generally illegal to call yourself an engineer, but most people are able to use the industrial exemption. Nevertheless, in using the industrial exemption one is not offering engineering services to the general public. I don't know what happens if you tried to use the industrial exemption but offered services to the public, but I think it's prohibited. This all varies between states, but in general, if you for example started a software consulting firm called Vlad Engineering and the principals were not licensed, your local licensing board would likely have beef with you. If you were a software engineer at Vlad Consulting you would probably be okay. The bottom line is that it's tricky to navigate, and so it was recommended at my school we avoid using engineering anywhere unless we had our PE license.