Engineering schools that feel more cooperative than competitive

I am a Santa Clara mechanical engineering grad. It is a strong program and they cram in quite a bit of liberal arts education. There is not much room for classes that do not meet a liberal arts requirement however. Look at the class progression at all of the schools, you should be able to get a decent idea of how much flexibility there is. I don’t know any engineers who studied abroad while I was at SCU, though that was quite a while ago.