I always like to recommend Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). It’s highly ranked, has a beautiful, compact campus, and offers a unique hands-on, project-oriented approach to engineering. It’s in a nice neighborhood, and city is undergoing a major downtown renovation. It does give merit aid, and it sounds like you would have a good shot at it.
I think you would also have a reasonable prospect of merit aid at RPI, RIT, and Case Western.
All of these schools are midsize with relatively compact campuses. Good luck!