Yeah, that’s a frustrating and unfortunate reality of some job markets, including engineering.
For hiring, experience in an internship or job trumps pretty much anything else including college prestige.
That’s why I was trying to find out more details about your daughter’s internship experiences. It matters where she did them, and there’s a way she can spin things on application materials to give recruiters more of what they’re looking for.
Sometimes, but not always, a masters degree can “count” in a hiring manager’s mind in lieu of job experience. I don’t know if the specific programs she’s considering will help her job search or not.
It could be that her resume is getting stuck in automated purgatory and a human is never laying eyes on it. That’s why it’s so important for her to read that resume wiki I linked, and to exploit any connection she can to get human eyes on her app materials.