I interviewed and hired hundreds of design engineering applicants over the course of my career. No particular school stood out to me as exceptional. That being said I also never interviewed candidates that attended MIT or any of the other top tier schools. I think they all headed to Silicon Valley.
For hardware design I found that those who had relevant work experience usually excelled as designers. Candidates who had never touched a soldering iron or had an interest before college usually struggled more than those who had.
Generally speaking we usually hired new grads with a Masters degree. It’s not that we discriminated against guys with Bachelors degrees, it was just that the few that applied were unable to adequately answer interview technical questions.
One word of advice for your son. If you put something on your resume make sure you understand it. It never ceased to amaze me how many candidates would put things on their resume that they lacked a basic understanding of. It was usually the end of the road for them.
Don
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