As I haven't seen a link to it in the comments yet: A while back Hillel Wayne put some effort into resolving the question of "Is Software Engineering Real Engineering?" with the crossover project: https://www.hillelwayne.com/talks/crossover-project/
The conclusion he drew was that there's less difference than you might expect between software development and "traditional" engineering disciplines and that it's reasonable to consider software engineering a real engineering discipline.
The conclusion he drew was that there's less difference than you might expect between software development and "traditional" engineering disciplines and that it's reasonable to consider software engineering a real engineering discipline.