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A mechanical engineer can lose their license if their work results in deaths.

A software engineer can't lose their license because they don't have one.

Perhaps a professional license may improve software development and thus better software in consumer products like cars where bad software design can result in deaths.

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I don't think it would need to apply to all SWEs, but would make sense for safety critical things like firmware that runs vehicles, roads, bridges, etc. Certainly the sort of systems that interact with or control other systems already requiring a PE.

BioE doesn't have anything like that yet either.

I agree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical_engineering#Trainin...

Looks like while there is not a particular license for BioE they can be licensed under other disciplines.

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