[kabes]

At least in Belgium, software engineering at university is as much an engineering degree as is civil engineer, electrical engineer etc. You have largely the same maths, physics, ... and you get the same protected title (ir.). In fact I know some civil engineers who claim other engineering studies are harder.

But I do agree that developing software is usually more of an art than a science and a lot of software engineers just make business apps where not much of the engineering background is required.