Yes. I am a scientist whose work sort of straddles the fields of math, science and engineering. I work with plenty of engineers. I even was an engineering major when I first started college (Mechanical Engineering, which I still have a fondness for, although my work is closer to Information Theory and Signal processing in EE now). My father was a very proud engineer (Mining Engineering, but then he migrated to Chemical Engineering). Engineering is a very serious and highly respected discipline, but the public does not really understand it that well, and the nuances. So, there is a lot of confusion.