<p>Just become a physicist and work on fusion energy…</p>
<p>Will it be difficult switching from a Civil/Environmental Engineering major to a MechE or ChemE major emphasizing on renewable energy? I’m slowly getting my admission replies from my colleges and on all of them I applied for a Civil or Civil/Environmental Engineering major.</p>
<p>To Wikipedian: That is the best answer in this thread. </p>
<p>Who needs solar, wind, etc. power when you have fusion energy. Hells YEAH!!</p>
<p>^And the irony is that you are SolarPrincess. Should have been FusionPrincess.</p>
<p>“Will it be difficult switching from a Civil/Environmental Engineering major to a MechE or ChemE major emphasizing on renewable energy? I’m slowly getting my admission replies from my colleges and on all of them I applied for a Civil or Civil/Environmental Engineering major.”</p>
<p>it depends on the school. Some have a common first year for all engineers so it’ll be easy to switch even if they don’t let you switch before but others have slightly different classes. In general, 1st year is very similar for most engineers so you might be able to make up classes in the summer, i’m not sure though.</p>
<p>Environment Engineers bread and butter is A. designing septic and water systems for development or B. preparing huge, expensive environmental impact statement documentation, required by environmental regulations. The regulations have little to do with saving turtles or designing renewable energy. Its about racking up billable hours as a disincentive to development, including renewable energy projects. </p>
<p>The reason that Obama’s push for “shovel ready” to skip the costly and time consuming process of preparing enviro-documention. As an environmental engineer, you have a mandate to suck up as much as 40% of any project’s budget (see Massachusetts expedited bridge repair program signed in August 2008.)</p>