Question

The difference between software engineering and traditional engineering is:

Answer 1

Software Engineering is the application of engineering to the development of software in a systematic method. 

traditional engineering, is the process of marketing, engineering design, manufacturing, testing and production where each stage of the development 

Answer 2

Software engineering process is mainly related with computers, computer programming, writing codes, building desktop or web application etc in a different kind of high level language. To develop a certain product we need a some proved methodology that is suitable for creating desired product .

Traditional engineering process is about building cars, machines, hardware, buildings, hardware.

Before this computer era, these traditional engineering Branches used to prepare the hardware module initially. But nowadays with advancement  computer technology, these traditional branches uses computer for development of soft prototype.