[jozzas]

I'm a Software Engineer. It's printed on my undergraduate degree, it's on my business card, and it's recognised by the engineering association in my country. So no, I won't.

"Traditional engineers are regulated, certified, and subject to apprenticeship and continuing education. Engineering claims an explicit responsibility to public safety and reliability, even if it doesn’t always deliver."

I DO have an explicit responsibility to public safety and reliability (it comes with the degree). I have to consider the implications of my work and could be held criminally liable for errors resulting in injury or death. If one was designing and building - or even updating - the software for a radiation therapy machine, for example, wouldn't you want it to be that way? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

[sotojuan]

This is obvious, but he's talking about the US. Here, "software engineer" is a sort of made up title. I wish the US was like your country, though.