My advice would be to have him link up with some engineers and see if he can shadow them for a day. Get a feel for what he would potentially want to do as an engineer, and pick a school that supports that dream.
I went to a small state school in CA ( Sacramento State for Mechanical). Going in to school I thought I wanted to design parts. My first job was a manufacturing engineer and watching the design guys sitting at their computers 8-10 hours a day while I was in the shop working with my hands made me glad I didn’t go into design.
If he really wants to be in automotive go to a school with strong OEM ties. If he wants to get into aerospace then do the same. O&G then go to a Texas or Oklahoma school.
I’m the engineering director at our facility making gas turbine parts. I have had people from both small state schools and top tier private aerospace engineering schools work for me, top tier school did not mean better at their job.
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