Doesn't need to be religious in nature. My secular school had good wood and metal shop. Design classes could include realizing the designs and getting a feel for what worked, what the impact of decisions on paper meant. Go to MIT, your engineering only comes to life because skilled machinists are on staff. Be that machinist too. Knowing paper knowledge is not enough.
> The College of St. Joseph the Worker, which combines the trades with a liberal-arts education, is trying to restore its students’ sense of their own competence, and to revive the city of Steubenville, Ohio, along the way.