<p>We recently learned that a family friend is terminally ill. She lives in the northwest and her oldest son is a HS senior. He is interested in engineering and I believe would be fine at one of the state schools, but I'm wondering if there are any smaller schools with engineering programs that might have more financial aid available. (Health care and related expenses will now eat up the money that otherwise would have been available for college). He is most interested in the space side of aerospace engineering, but perhaps would consider an ME program if there was money available. Is there anything along the lines of Lehigh or WPI in the northwest? Thanks for any ideas.</p>
<p>The ABET site only shows University of Washington in Seattle as having aerospace.</p>
<p>Thanks, I'll look at it. All I know about the school is that they play basketball.</p>
<p>I know; that's why I thought an ME program might be an option. (Where did Gonzaga go?)</p>
<p>U of Portland (Catholic and small, claim that they generous with merit aid)
Oregon State University (large but not overwhelming)</p>
<p>Ditto Oregon State, the engineering program has a new building and the university is trying to make it a top engineering school. I don't know about aerospace, but their ME is very good. I would also add Portland State U as they have had large donations to the engineering program lately. Both have great, but very different school atmospheres, OSU is in Corvallis a town of 60k, while PSU is in downtown Portland. Financial aid may be a problem if he is OOS as our support of higher ed (and schools in general) is poor.</p>
<p>A quick look at their websites also identified Engineering Majors at these northwest colleges.</p>
<p>Seattle University
George Fox University, OR
Oregon Institute of Technology</p>
<p>I have no personal connection to OIT, so I can't speak about its quality.
My impression of GFU is that overall it is a good small college. Seattle University generally is somewhat of a run-of-the-mill institution, but I can't speak specifically about the S.U. Engineering program.</p>
<p>1moremom:
Sorry about the vanishing Gonzaga. I was editing and when I saw you specifically said aerospace I went to the AVET wedsite. I do hear good things about Gonzaga though, and they are apparently good with money.</p>
<p>Western Washington University is a smaller state university; its engineering teams have been showing well in national-level competition. </p>
<p>All of my son's friends who planned to major in engineering at UWash have ended up outside engineering, so I think their program must have some fairly high barriers to entry.</p>
<p>I should just quit posting -- sorry -- post #8 should read ABET web site.</p>
<p>We knew what you meant. :)</p>
<p>Thanks, dmd, that's good to know. DH was just visiting and offered to help since he is in engineering and we've been through this once before. I'm not sure what the stats are at this point or what kind of help they're getting from the GC.</p>