Would you hire a physicist and material scientist to design you a bridge? Or the civil engineer?
You are right, there are degrees of each profession in each other. No one (not the least the IEEE) will deny that. But that's a huge leap to 'It's all the same to me'.
This is like saying 'oh, as a sysadmin I periodically have to write scripts and small programs' and therefore there's no big deal conflating sysadmins and being a programmer/developer.
Also, to nitpick a bit... biologists aren't building organic circuits. Biologists along with bio-engineers (and a whole buttload of other engineers) are building organic circuits.
Yes, there will be exceptional people who so perfectly blend scientist and engineer, that in that person, the two become the same. But as a whole, they are two intertwined, but separate things.
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Would you hire a physicist and material scientist to design you a bridge? Or the civil engineer?
You are right, there are degrees of each profession in each other. No one (not the least the IEEE) will deny that. But that's a huge leap to 'It's all the same to me'.
This is like saying 'oh, as a sysadmin I periodically have to write scripts and small programs' and therefore there's no big deal conflating sysadmins and being a programmer/developer.
Also, to nitpick a bit... biologists aren't building organic circuits. Biologists along with bio-engineers (and a whole buttload of other engineers) are building organic circuits.
Yes, there will be exceptional people who so perfectly blend scientist and engineer, that in that person, the two become the same. But as a whole, they are two intertwined, but separate things.