<p>I'll reiterate a few of collegehelp's suggestions:
Vanderbilt
Clemson
Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>...small relative to the large state schools, and in your geography. Solid reputations, with each having an engineering school, the latter which might help your admissions chances.</p>
<p>Also, since you seem to me honed in on florida, have you checked out FIU?:
<a href="http://www.eng.fiu.edu/HTML2003/TEC_DepartmentsPrograms.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.eng.fiu.edu/HTML2003/TEC_DepartmentsPrograms.htm</a></p>