As a degreed engineer, you will not need any hand-holding on the academics. US pilot training is pretty easy as far as books and tests go (compared to europe, australia, etc). If you pay a lot of money and find yourself sitting in a class on recip-engine fundamentals that is geared to someone with an AA in underwater-basket-weaving, you will be bored to tears.

If you can find a good deal on flight time and instruction, you can study on your own. Might save some bucks that way.