The entire sector is somewhat fraudulent in its nomenclature, because it’s still a pretty young field. We’re basically going through what mechanics and physics went through about 250 years ago. At that time there were no legally-defined engineers, anyone who could do reading/writing/math could develop entire factories.
At some point it will have to clear up its act. I expect it will take another 50 years or so, as employment demand stops growing and eventually falls, at which point it will make sense for incumbents to raise formal barriers to certain titles.
On of my girls is thinking of doing Computer Science so we were checking out University courses are there are BEng and MEng computing courses with professional accreditation here in the UK.
At some point it will have to clear up its act. I expect it will take another 50 years or so, as employment demand stops growing and eventually falls, at which point it will make sense for incumbents to raise formal barriers to certain titles.