@mathmomvt, Kansas State and University Of Tennessee-Knoxville both have nice merit aid. I don’t know if it’s guaranteed at Tennessee, but it looks like it is. Kansas looks like it’s definitely guaranteed.
Both would get you under 30K.
I don’t know much about the academics at those schools, but if you care about US News rankings, Tennessee is tied with NYU, WPI, Illinois Institute Of Technology, Stony Brook, UConn, UMass Amherst, and a bunch of others. Kansas State is one level down, tied with Oregon State, Stevens, and a bunch of others. This is for undergraduate engineering at schools with a doctorate program:
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate
When I last looked at this list, I remember seeing a few glaring examples of schools that looked like they were incorrectly ranked, to me, as a total non-expert on the matter. But it should give a general idea of where schools fit.
Here are the scholarship pages: