Software Engineering is not Engineering

After I discovered for myself hackaday.com I realized that our faculty does not educate engineers. We are producing middle-ware "specialists" between the framework developers and the end users, that are able to compose high-level scripts that can pop-up forms and query databases. We are so got used to all possible abstraction layers that we don't see further than one layer below. Is it really engineering? Most of these "engineers" don't know how their fridge is working, not really their computers. Where is a creative thought? Where is deus ex machina?