I second Utah then. It has a very strong engineering department and she’d get WUE at worst, maybe more. Our son was offered a free year followed by three at instate tuition. The medical school it top notch. They’ll have anything she needs. The campus plays smaller than the numbers suggest. If she’s into sports at all the Utah students are very fun. They even sell out gymnastic dual meets. Many fear the LDS influence if they aren’t, but SLC is minority Mormon now. There’s certainly an influence, but overall it’s not radically different than Denver for a non-Mormon.
You have to declare major at Cal Poly. She’ll get plenty of exposure “building things” in EE too. They’ll just be smaller, and likely circuit related.
As I said, my son is a ME. He was certainly trained in building things, but he doesn’t in his job now. It’s mostly EE and CS. The only thing he built prior to undergrad were Lego kits as a kid. Most MEs don’t actually do the building.
At Cal Poly, she will need to apply to a major. EE is less competitive, but it will lock her out of CS in the future. CS isn’t accepting change of major students.