<p>You know, energy engineering or something along those lines. I'm interested in this field and I was wondering if it is a good major for college(if it is quite difficult or not), and its job security, etc.? Anyone has any experience or input in this field?</p>
<p>I think you’re probably better off majoring in a more traditional engineering major and just using your electives to try and fill out your interest in renewable energy.</p>
<p>What about renewable energy interests you? If you had to choose one part of it to work on, what would it be?</p>
<p>Actually, I haven’t gone that specific yet but the whole thing in general(whether it be solar, wind etc.) just interests me. What would you suggest as a more traditional major that is somehow related to renewable energy?</p>
<p>Pretty much all of them can be tied to renewables somehow.</p>
<p>Chemical & materials - Biofuels, energy storage (hydrogen, fuel cells, etc.), photovoltaics, thermoelectrics
Civil - Infrastructure required to produce/distribute energy
Electrical - Power distribution & smart grid, photovoltaics
Mechanical - Designs for thing such as wind & hydro turbines</p>
<p>I’m sure there’s plenty more ways to integrate each of those fields into projects based around energy. Really, you can look at almost every project as something involving sustainability. I’m in materials engineering and work on a weird new material that we hope will have the capabilities of being injection molded like plastic. That means considerably less waste material and lower heating temperatures, both of which are considered “green” concepts. I have friends that do water purification and desalinization. In their case, they’re trying to make more efficient ways of doing it to reduce power and waste consumption.</p>
<p>Hmmm…what about engineering science? There’s this university which offers engineering science where you learn the basic foundation of engineering (or something like that…I don’t really remember) for the first 2 years and then in the third (which is when you pick your major) and fourth years, you can go to energy engineering. Does that sound good?</p>
<p>Personally I’d stick with one of the more mainstream ones since when companies look at your resume, they know what you are, and it’s easy to figure out how you’ve specialized yourself. If you wind up filling up all of your time with lower-level stuff from a lot of different fields you’ll never really have the time to to in depth work on any.</p>
<p>Again, it really comes down to what you want to do in renewables. There are lots of jobs to be had with the implementation and public policy aspect of them, as well as forming companies, marketing products, and pretty much anything you can think of is needed by those fields.</p>