Technically, IE11 in EM is an emulated IE8 which is why it still shows as IE8. This is also evident in the user-agent string if you try to sniff it. The rationale behind why EM chose IE8 as the engine can be found in this blog post:
Internet Explorer 8 still has more than 20% of the desktop browser
market share; despite the fact that IE9, IE10, and IE11 have
superseded IE8, many customers still rely on Internet Explorer 8 to
run their business.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/04/02/stay-up-to-date-with-enterprise-mode-for-internet-explorer-11.aspx
If you have set your document mode to be anything higher than IE8, then it will eventually fallback to the emulated engine. Look at last paragraphs of page 14 of this Internet Explorer Standards Support Documentation Overview:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff405771(v=vs.85).aspx