>>16697118a lot of engineering specialties require learning at least some modern physics, anon.
if you want to do electrical you want at least a passing understanding of topics in solid-state physics, if you want to do optical engineering you're going to run into stuff involving interactions between light and matter, atomic physics, photoelectric effect, and so on. if you want do work in nuclear engineering you need to understand principles of radiation, if you want to work in material processing/fabrication you need to understand atomic and plasma physics, if you want to do chemical engineering there's a bunch of quantum physics involved, etc.