This label would seem obtuse twenty years ago. Traditionally, engineers
require an empirical understanding of physical phenomena, e.g., fluid
dynamics, thermodynamics, etc.
In the Venn diagram, the intersection of "engineer" and "coder" circles is
large, but the "coder" circle is 100x bigger than the "engineer" circle.
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This label would seem obtuse twenty years ago. Traditionally, engineers require an empirical understanding of physical phenomena, e.g., fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, etc.
In the Venn diagram, the intersection of "engineer" and "coder" circles is large, but the "coder" circle is 100x bigger than the "engineer" circle.
It's been around since at least the 1960s - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering#History