Okay, here’s another option. Alfred University (NY) has about 1400 undergrads, but there’s also an affiliation with the SUNY College of Technology at Alfred (about 3700 undergrads), so there’s a bigger student population here than might be assumed if only looking at Alfred U.’s population.
This is another school with an artsy population, but it also translates that into some innovative programs. According to its website, it has the country’s only glass engineering science program (and it’s ABET-accredited) and one of the two only programs in ceramic engineering (also ABET-accredited). It’s also ABET-accredited for biomaterials engineering, materials science and engineering, mechanical engineering, and renewal energy engineering. Additionally, the major in Performance Design and Technology sounds like it might be worth investigating as well. And here is some info on the bouldering opportunities in the area: Rock Climbing near Alfred, New York