I'm a current engineering student at Texas A&M - and I can say this:
The engineering courses I've been through are easy thanks to FIRST. My entire first semester was LEGO mindstorms with labview

and the second is Solidworks...also "

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However the Physics courses for freshmen engineers here are horrible. With a 75% drop rate of the courses (Mostly due to curriculum and instruction and not effort Id say) they weed people out easy. Its all calculus based and they expect you to be able to do calculus you haven't even seen yet.
From my experience unless you really enjoy calculus - and are willing to go learn ahead of your class on your own to keep up - its the physics and math courses that will kill you as an engineer - not the engineering classes themselves.
(as a side note the other STEM fields have easier but equivalent math and science courses)