<p>Which engineering major is the most exciting? By that I mean least chance of being monotonous, keeping you challenged. Like travelling, seeing new things, doing/researching new things. Please don't give me the "what interests you most" answer.</p>
<p>If you want travel, I’d look into working in naval engineering or the oil industry or structural engineering at a global firm.</p>
<p>Hell, that last one will probably make you move every couple years whether you like it or not :P</p>
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<p>In terms of recent milestones reached, I’d say the areas of solid-state physics/electrical engineering on the nano-scale and bioengineering/biophysics/related areas are two of the most astonishing fields to get into. Strictly in terms of how fast the fields are making progress, though.</p>
<p>Obviously explosives engineering. Right? Right?</p>
<p>Seriously, what kind of question is this? It depends entirely on you. Maybe someone like hadsed there would be most excited by solid state physics. However, that would just bore the heck out of me. You may not want the “whatever interests you the most” answer, but you are going to get it. It is the only real answer.</p>
<p>It’s because I don’t know what exactly interests me the most. And I wouldn’t know unless I was able to take junior level courses in all the different fields and then choose, but that’s just not possible. What interests me the most is not being bored and doing the same thing everyday.</p>
<p>Right, but you can find jobs like that across the board. You can also find jobs that are monotonous and boring across the board.</p>
<p>We could tell you “go into materials science, it is super exciting” and you may still go do that and then hate it. It is an impossible question to answer because it has no real answer.</p>
<p>Go into materials science, it’s super exciting.</p>
<p>And order some Chunky Monkey ice cream while you’re at it.</p>
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You know in the past week or so, some article came up on PhysOrg that showed some researchers making a particle accelerator… on a nano-chip. Tell me that’s not awesome! Who doesn’t like particle accelerators? Even Tony Stark likes particle accelerators.</p>
<p>Maybe we should advise the OP to just be Tony Stark, he gets to do all the interesting stuff.</p>
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<em>yawn</em></p>
<p>In all seriousness, the correct answer is the one you don’t want to hear. You don’t have to take junior level courses in order to figure out what interests you. Just read about it and figure out what the field entails. I don’t know much (if anything) about semi-conductors and signal processing, but I do know it doesn’t interest me.</p>
<p>Based on your criteria above of just not being boring, I would suggest majoring in civil engineering and going to work for a large structural engineering firm, or work for a contractor / construction manager (in a good economy). I’ve been working for a construction manager for 3 years 9 months now and everyday has been different. Typically, you only work on a construction project for a year or two before moving on to another one (with the possible exception of huge infrastructure projects). There are new challenges everyday, some dealing with the actual construction and others dealing with people. I don’t sit in a cubicle in suburban office park 8 hours a day; my “office” right now is a 6 acre site that’s 4 levels deep. Then again, this isn’t engineering and it might not excite you like it does me.</p>
<p>Something that I forgot to mention. Let me tell you how I keep up to date with the cutting-edge science of today. You can go to a website like PhysOrg.com (or .org, can’t ever remember) that has tons and tons of science news every day, and they split them up into categories. What I do is I get on my Google Reader (it’s an RSS feed reader that organizes all your subscriptions in one place so you can read articles from all over in one program) and add subscriptions from the RSS feeds of these websites. I have one for a bunch of subfields in science from PhysOrg (particle/astro/nuclear/bio physics, neuroscience), one for Popular Science, MIT Eng./Sci., NASA, etc. This is a pretty good way to check out the interesting stuff without knowing a whole lot because the people who write these write for a general audience.</p>
<p>It is hard to believe with what is happening in science in the world today that Bioengineering would not be the most exciting.</p>