Hard to disagree with you Windy, problem is we all think it's "our" title. In various places around the world I've been called "Engineer", "technician", "scientist", "boffin" and a few less polite terms. On the whole, "Boffin" is my favourite, except that nowadays it seems to be a term of abuse amongst teenagers to describe what I'd have known at that age as a "swot".
Let's face it, virtually none of us now do a job that would have been recognised as that of an "Engineer" 200 years ago.
Maybe we should just ban use of the word altogether, and we ALL have to find something else to call ourselves
Alternatively, just keep adding words onto the left, "Chartered Engineer", "Research Technician Engineer", "Aircraft Maintenance Engineer" and protect those terms by law.
We'll never win will we!
Dr.G