@IncorE206, Nobel Prizes have nothing to do with the quality of undergraduate instruction, nor do they award prizes for engineering. Physics is as close as it gets.
If we must judge by Nobel Laureates though, between 2000 and 2017, there are three Ivy’s in the top 10, Princeton #1 (not well regarded for its UG engineering), Columbia #4 (also not an engineering powerhouse) and Harvard #8 (definitely not an engineering hotbed). Two of the top 10 schools are CA public institutions. No Northwestern is not among them, but neither are Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Yale or Penn. Since 2000, Northwestern has been awarded 11 Nobel Prizes, more than Dartmouth or Brown. During the same time, Cornell had 15.
Again, this is a pretty specious argument for the OP’s purposes because Nobel awards 5 categories and only Physics is really germane to engineering, even then, peripherally.