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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Names would be nice, ones that aren't MIT and Caltech[/quote]

Best privates known for rigorous engineering coursework (and not much weedout because getting in is the weedout):
Stanford, CMU, ivies with real engineering(Princeton, Cornell, Penn, Columbia, Harvard, and yes even Yale is now on that list),
Northwestern, JHU, Rice, Duke, WashU, Vanderbilt.

Top publics: UCB, GT, Michigan, UIUC, UWash, Purdue

Some of these are absolute tops for BME others are tops for mechanical or nano, others are strong in every E discipline. You have to look through each department in the Eschool. [/quote]
I do wonder whether Harvard and Yale are riding the name brand coattails for their engineering program.  When one thinks "top Eng school", Harvard and Yale don't really come to mind.[/quote]

They do not have the “big” engineering such as aero, but Harvard at least is top5 in smaller scale engineering such as BioE, molecular/materials(division of mechanical) and others. Yale is up and coming fast too.

We have two wider-circle not immediate family relatives in Engineering and a 3rd immediate family member. 
We asked them what schools they would send theirs to if like ours, a top-stats top of class intellectual kid who at the time was debating applied physics versus engineering which are more closely related than we knew.

First one, tenured at Yale because yale bought and moved the entire lab team from what is generally accepted to be a top -10 flagship . That person has taught at lesser public as well as a different top private in their career since getting phd. They said the top privates are where the intellectual top kids thrive because of peer match, plus more resources such as ease getting into a lab and getting paid as an undergraduate. They recd only privates: MIT Rice CMU JHU as well as Cornell if it ddint feel too big, Princeton Penn Harvard Columbia Yale though they admitted Y newer to the particular area.

Other relative graduated from a known techy flagship and phD CMU then started a company. They recommended almost the same privates but also pushed hard for 5-6 top flagships known for E, explaining that it is like a smaller community within a community to be in Engineering at these big schools.

The third is in the R&D industry, did a top SLAC then phD at HPSM and said the peer network is everything, if they want to be a leader in research whether private or with a university, go to the school with the highest concentration of super smart kids as well as one that has a lot of startup culture. They gave a longer list and included 5 SLACs strong in applied physics plus 5 ivies plus stanford mit northwestern. That was it. [/quote]

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