Software engineers suffer from excessive introspection and self-doubt about the existence of the field. This paper takes a look at the history of engineering to find examples consistent with the practice of software engineering. We find that software engineering does not have to wait until there is a mature underlying science, as engineering practice has generally led science. That software engineering has characteristics of design practice that closely match what is normally considered to be engineering design. And that software engineering has many attributes of any other new branch of engineering. Finally we consider the reasons why software engineering is not recognized, mostly due to inconsistencies in practice.

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