As it happens, I drove my son back to UDayton this weekend and had a conversation with a junior in Chemical Engineering. She said she’s thoroughly enjoying her education, had a fantastic internship, then had a great co-op. She’s excited about her future and had nothing but good things to say about UD Engineering.
One of his friend at UD has an older brother at UD who is an Engineering major and is happy with his time at UD. My son’s first year on campus, I visited and we walked around and met a senior Mechanical Engineering major who had interned at an Aeronautical company in NC (I think it was GE Aviation/Aerospace, but my memory might be faulty on that detail) and had accepted a job offer at the same company, to start after graduation.
My son is not in Engineering, so I don’t have any firsthand information about it. Except he and I have walked through the Engineering building several times (I am a failed Aerospace Engineering student of an Ice Age ago) and we both found it impressive. His previous roommate was a Computer Engineering (maybe CS, I’m not sure) major and also has had quality internships. And I’ve had brief conversations with a couple of his other friends who are engineering majors, and heard nothing negative about the department.
If your son is left with deciding between several schools that don’t have an automatic winner (for him) among them, I suggest visiting UD to see if he likes it.