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Pennsylvania College of Technology's Building Automation Technology program is a two-plus-two bachelor's degree that accepts students with an associate's degree in HVAC, electrical, electronics, or computer areas. What is Building Automation all about? (PDF)

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Building Automation Technology News

Equipment Donation Benefits College’s Building Automation Major

May 2008

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A regional distributor of Automated Logic’s Building Automation Controls equipment recently spearheaded a gift of $82,000 in instructional equipment to benefit students in Penn College’s increasingly popular building automation technology major. “The donation of the Building Automation System server, together with the Automated Logic WebCTRL application software and equipment level controllers, will allow the program at Penn College to prepare coursework that seamlessly introduces students to the entire building-controls creation process,” said Jack F. Clift, vice president/general manager at the Bristol-based DVL Automation and coordinator of the gift. Two other Pennsylvania dealers of Automated Logic’s systems – Intercon Automation in Harrisburg and Logical Automation in Pittsburgh – also participated in the donation.

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Mechanical Contractors Honor Past President With Scholarship

April 2007

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From left, J. Douglas Armstrong, executive director of the Mechanical Contractors Association of Northwest Pennsylvania; Debra M. Miller, director of corporate relations, Pennsylvania College of Technology; and Tom F. Gregory, dean of construction and design technologies, Pennsylvania College of Technology
A new scholarship fund at Penn College will memorialize a past president of the Mechanical Contractors Association of America. The Mechanical Contractors Association of Northwest Pennsylvania has established the “Mechanical Contractors Association of Northwest Pennsylvania, Foster McCarl, Jr. Scholarship” fund to provide an annual award of $1,000 for a student in the college’s HVAC technology bachelor-degree major; the heating, ventilation and air conditioning technology associate-degree-majors; or the building automation technology bachelor-degree major.

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