PCToday

Scholarship at Penn College Memorializes Blair County Surveyor

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:15:00 +0000

A new scholarship fund will memorialize a Blair County surveyor who helped develop curriculum for students at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The Ellis James Edwards/New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co. Scholarship Fund will give preference for awards to students from Blair, Bedford, Cambria, Fulton, Huntington or Somerset counties enrolled in Penn College’s civil engineering technology [...]

Students Play ‘Weighting’ Game En Route to Engineering Superiority

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:10:48 +0000

Students in instructor Drew R. Potts’ Strength of Materials class turned manila folders and craft glue into 19-inch bridge spans that were tested to failure in College Avenue Labs on Thursday. “The students have to write a report demonstrating the use of statics and strengths of material,” said Potts, a member of Penn College’s civil [...]

Three Receive Pennsylvania Land Surveyors’ Scholarships

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:19:12 +0000

Three Pennsylvania College of Technology students received scholarships for 2011-12 from the Pennsylvania Land Surveyors’ Foundation. The foundation presented 10 scholarships totaling $17,000. Melissa D. Thorp, a Penn College surveying technology student from Curwensville, was ranked in first place among the recipients, garnering a $3,000 scholarship award. The other Penn College recipients were Christian J. [...]

Student Sings at Saturday Little League Contest

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:35:38 +0000

A student in Pennsylvania College of Technology’s surveying technology major performed prior to Saturday’s U.S. Championship game at the Little League Baseball World Series. “It was an honor to sing for my country. I could not believe the crowd’s applause,” said Dylan T. Lackey, of Mountville, serving in the Army National Guard. “It almost brought [...]

Judges’ Award Among Team’s Feats at International Competition

Tue, 04 May 2010 11:34:08 +0000

A team of Pennsylvania College of Technology students recently returned from a collegiate engineering challenge the Baja SAE with a strong finish among some of the top engineering universities in North and South America and a “Best Prepared Award” from the contest judges. Eight students members of the college’s Society of Manufacturing Engineers student chapter [...]

Guest Speaker to Discuss Concrete’s ‘Green’ Qualities

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:24:44 +0000

“Concrete’s Role in Sustainable Development,”detailing how concrete plays an integralpart in green building design and construction, will be presented at 3:30 p.m. April 6 in the Klump Academic CenterAuditorium. The guest speaker for the event, which is organized byDrew R. Potts, instructor of civil engineering technology at Penn College, will be Philip W. Kresge , [...]

Alumnus’ Engineering Firm, Students Team Up for Highway Safety

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:58:14 +0000

The co-founder of a local engineering and surveying firm, whose resume includes a 2002 “degree that works” a bachelor’s in civil engineering technology from Pennsylvania College of Technology will join his business partner and two juniors from Maranatha Christian School, Watsontown, in a project aimed at safer roads. Alumnus Timothy Wentz, who, with Randy Webster, [...]

Camp Offers Glimpse at Engineering Technology Careers

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:23:09 +0000

Pennsylvania College of Technology recently hosted 22 area high school students on campus during its free Discover Engineering Technology Camp. The two-day camp serves as an opportunity for students entering grades nine and 10 to learn about the variety of careers available in the engineering technology field, as well as the programs offered through the [...]

Peggy Madigan Memorial Scholarship Recipient Announced

Thu, 21 May 2009 16:41:31 +0000

For the second year in a row, a student in the Athens Area School District who will attend Pennsylvania College of Technology after graduation has been selected as the recipient of the Peggy Madigan Memorial Leadership Scholarship. A selection committee has chosen Matthew J. Delp, RR2 Ulster, as the 2009 recipient of the scholarship award, [...]

Student Operators Demonstrate Heavy Equipment for Engineering Class

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:52:38 +0000

Heavy construction equipment: operator emphasismajors from Budd L. Greevy’s Heavy Equipment Operations class recently put on a demonstration for civil engineering technology students in Robert P. Gresko’s site-preparation course. (Greevy, who provided the photos, is an instructor of diesel equipment technology in Penn College’s School of Natural Resources Management; Gresko is an instructor of construction [...]