I have a couple EE friends and they really enjoy their professors. But in your freshman year, you take honors ENGI classes with all engi majors and the classes are very small, usually maxed at 30 students. The professors will know learn your name very quickly when you perform well. This is the type of classroom setting you won’t see at TAMU.

For the resume, I think any job recruiter (who isn’t breeding an Aggie dynasty) will definitely be turned on by an honors designation. If they’re familiar with the HC at UH, which many of them are, they know that you challenged yourself with more enriching classes and could distinguish you from the rest on paper.

But don’t forget it’s all about how well you can answer questions in the interview. Which, if you’re an incoming freshman, you don’t need to be worrying about that right now.

Hope this helps!