You seem like a young and eager engineer. You drove your car into a tar pit. You can stand on top of it and yell and scream until you are blue in the face, and everyone will agree with you that nobody should have put this tar pit here in the first place. But you won't ever get your car out.
Is your passion to make things or burn down corporations on technicalities? If it's really the latter, I'd suggest law school. Either way, get after it!