Well, lots of engineering majors do look down on different majors alot. They are just ignorant and arrogant. Being an engineering major myself, i think other majors ar enot as hard, but i don't come out saying it is easy.
That said, any person that wants to replace an accoutnant with an engineer is fcking stupid. Accounting seems like an easy task, but there are so many dam laws associated with it that making one mistake could literally break your company. I think that if some people realized what it took to be a good accountant and get a CPA, they would no longer laugh.