There’s so many to chose from. EE sounds fascinating, but I don’t think I’d want to deal with the difficulty. ME sounds really interesting and designing equipment sounds fascinating. Civil sound interesting, but not my thing. Industrial sounds really interesting and people say it’s easier.
My point is how do you find which one is right for you? I just have no idea.
Greg LeMond once said of bicycle racing “it never gets easier, you just go faster.”
I actually like the idea of Industrial Engineering, although I’m not one. I get it conceptually and it does sound fun. I wouldn’t let the perceived ease sway me one way or the other - if you really push yourself it’ll be hard enough, especially if you pick the right sorts of electives.
Look at the bigger picture … some of us wanted to have technical, challenging, and meaningful work, and that drove us to where we are. I think you can find that sort of home in any of the disciplines you mentioned.
So maybe also ask yourself what kinds of things do you want to build, what kinds of things do you want to design? What makes you go “oooh, I want to do that.”
It was pretty clear to me that I should be EE (changed from ME to EE during Jr. year of HS thanks to AP Physics) with a personality check on myself.
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Hahahaha, hate mechanical stuff that makes it’s way into my curriculum. I’d agree with my electrical professors that say electrical is easy and mechanical is the hardest 
I followed my brother who studied EE. He showed me Boolean algebra and how easy it was for women to get scholarships as an engineer.
I wasn’t expecting a “yes or no” answer.
Not sure whether you refer to my post but that’s exactly what happened. I didn’t have a deep knowledge of my field.
It was a word play off of “Boolean”.
When I first went back to school I struggled for a while in deciding between biotech, biochemical engineering, physics, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. At any job interview they will ask you “why did you decide to study ?”, so I imagined that I was asked this for each one. The two that I was able to answer quickly and thoroughly with an honest, personalized answer, as if on the spot, were physics and mechanical engineering. I chose mechE because I wanted to be able to apply my knowledge.
I found that I have a better aptitude for EE. Struggling with mechanics didn’t make sense when I could more easily excel analysing circuits.
Schools can often help with this - at NC State for example, if you are First Year Engineering - there is a class youc take that exposes you to all of the majors - I believe 17 at NC State - so you can see which area is interesting. My son original though medicine, went to a camp and decided that was not his path. Then went to a pharmacy camp and really liked compound pharmacy - and then he did a research camp at Baylor. As much as he enjoyed the work - he did not want to ask for grants all the time. So -that led him to chemical engineering. So I would say keep learning, trying, etc to help you figure it out.
I don’t think they ever asked me why I decided to study this branch of engineering. Never.
I always enjoyed math, and my dad was a professor in structural engineering. He helped me with a couple of high school science fair projects, and they were fun. At a party for some of his students, he jokingly said that I would be the next engineer in the family, and I thought, “Why not?” I had to take one circuits class, and it made absolutely no sense to me! I like using math to design buildings. As we drive around town, my kids know which buildings are Mom’s!
My choice’s Chemical and Biological Engineering because:
I enjoyed pulling apart stuff, laptops especially, much to my parents’ dismay (they told me that any mathematician would be a great engineer… Haha…).
I remember discovering that one of the laptops had overheating problems because the copper plate was exerting significant uneven pressure on the processor and graphics chip, and thus was causing accelerated thermal paste failure.
There were two ways for thermal paste to fail under normal operation, drying out or being “pumped out” (due to the copper and silicon expanding and contracting, thus exerting pressure). The uneven pressure was accelerating the pump out failure.
I also had some exposure to Java programming
So I went into mechanical engineering. And now I’m half-considering switching to EE because of my interest in programming and controls system.
I have always had a fascination with aircraft and space, as well as science in general = Aerospace Engineering.
There’s a historical element that draws me to these areas… every time I visit a science museum I become easily immersed into the history. For me, it’s not just the latest bleeding edge stuff that I find interesting, it’s how the field came to be in the first place… some of the most innovative and interesting designs come from the early days of engineering. I think if you can appreciate the history behind any given field, you will have a stronger interest in it over the long run.