I dispute that. Mechanical engineering isn't physics and neither is electrical engineering. Chemical engineering isn't chemistry (it is, in fact, more thermo- and fluid-dynamics). So, in the same way, software engineering isn't computer science. At best, it has a relationship analogous to that between applied mathematics and pure math.
Unfortunately the trend seems to be the replacement of one with the other. What I am suggesting, one major for each, is exactly the opposite of either/or.
