>While physics is about finding the laws that govern nature, engineering (say, mechanical or electrical engineering) is about accepting these laws as foundation, and using these laws to build or improve things. This is not less scientific than physics; (classic) engineers are just experts in a special, more applied sub-discipline of physics.

>Similarly, software engineering is about applying the foundations that mathematics, electrical engineering or computer science brought in a similar scientific way.

Exactly my point, that's why most of IT professionals should be called "software engineers" and not "computer scientists", just like electrical engineering is not "electrical science" or "physics" even though they it's obviously applied physics.

A graduate with physics degree will not work as electrical engineer, what's with all the "computer science" degrees required to get into software engineering?