<p>To an engineering manager who works on cutting edge technology, receiving a resume with Caltech on it will make them drool. Columbia and Duke aren’t really known for engineering, although any aerospace company would be happy hiring people with degrees from those two universities.</p>
<p>I have a CS degree and worked on radar-related projects at Boeing and Textron/ Bell Aerospace. Any kind of rigorous STEM degree would interest Boeing. The guy who led my group had a PhD in Fisheries from the U of Washington, and he was hired at Boeing because he was great at statistics.</p>