It hasn't been mentioned yet, so I have to put in a plug for Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, MA. Of course I'm biased, because I went there (for biology/pre-med, not engineering) but I loved it and they have made a lot of efforts toward recruiting women--the ratio is still pretty skewed toward guys, but getting better. They have just about any kind of engineering program one could want, including fire protection as was mentioned in a previous post. It's private but fairly generous with scholarships. Another unique thing about the school is the projects program--there are three projects students do during their time there (one in the humanities, one dealing with the relationship between science/technology and society, not necessarily within one's major, and the final one usually done in the senior year being a project within the student's major, and students have a lot of freedom to decide what they want it to be). She could most likely design a project that has to do with disaster relief, which would help her get into that field when she graduates.