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Etymology is one area where I know not to trust Wikipedia. I'm pretty sure an "engine-er" maintains an "engine", in the act of "engineer-ing".
Would you trust dictionary.com? It agrees with Wikipedia. Origin: 1350–1400; engine + -eer; replacing Middle English engin ( e ) our http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/engineer
I only clicked on this link because I saw the geocities.com. I was expecting more BLINK tags and animated gifs :(
I assumed all geocities.com sites have been deleted. How is this possible?
BUT, having lightly skimmed it, I get the general idea because "real" engineers have been whining about the Software Engineer title since nearly the first day I was at college like 11 years ago.
Oddly, perhaps, I haven't ever heard scientists complain that computer scientists aren't scientists.
I can't speak so much about software engineers as that is not really what I do, but as a computer scientist I can say without reservation that it is indeed a science. Research and experimentation is a core part of a lot of what computer scientists do. Solving problems that had no solutions until you came along and invented them.