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Professional engineers do engineering.

Title only engineers work on complex systems.

This distinction has largely been lost and most "Software Engineers" think they are doing PE Engineering when they are not.

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Do you think that if someone calls themselves a sandwich engineer people will begin to believe that designing cars is like makings subs? Do you really think the public can't tell the difference?

I think "Software Engineers" can't tell the difference.

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