[mhurron]

> What does standardization, rules and responsibility have to do with being an engineer?

What do they mean to a Medical Doctor? They are basically the reason you trust a MD instead of just someone who learned all the same stuff.

> software engineering is just as valid as any other form of engineering.

Little e engineering the process perhaps, but this is big E 'I'm an Engineer and you can trust me' the title.

Face it, developers call themselves Engineers because of the work that goes into obtaining the title in other fields. They are riding the coat tails of the process to get the title of Engineer without doing the work themselves.