Engineer is a protected title in the UK. You can be a software engineer, if you are qualified to be.
Same thing in Ontario. I actually have a Bachelors of Software Engineering, but am not legally allowed to call myself an engineer because I never got certified with the regulatory body.
No worries. Think I'll call myself an author as the source code is a text that can amount to a copyrighted work.
Hopefully this will not conflict with another field and and we can put this issue to rest.
In my opinion, software engineering has about another 50 years before it matures to the point where it is a "proper" engineering profession.
I call myself an "IT systems engineer".
New resume title just dropped
There is a difference between computer programmer and software engineers.
Ah, by the way, Edsger W Dijkstra referred to himself as a programmer. Good times.
It's like the term "social scientist". People always like to quibble, but eh... whatever...
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