Plastics & Polymer Technology
School of Industrial & Engineering Technologies
Breuder Advanced Technology & Health Sciences Center, Rm. E134 · (570) 327-4520
Accredited by the Technology Accreditation Commission (TAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)
Plastics and Polymer Technology at Pennsylvania College of Technology is one of only five plastics programs in the nation that is recognized by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. This endorsement from the leading authority in technology education results from the department's extensive array of industrial-size plastics processing equipment, modern laboratory facilities, highly credentialed faculty with lots of real-world experience, and a comprehensive curriculum that balances classroom and hands-on time.
The department offers two degrees:
- Associate of Applied Science in Plastics and Polymer Technology
- Bachelor of Science in Plastics and Polymer Engineering Technology
Graduates from these programs are in high demand to fill plastics industry career positions in manufacturing operations, process technology, supervision, research and development, product and machine design, and many more. Starting salaries range from approximately $40,000 to $50,000.
Graduates of the department are currently employed at companies across Pennsylvania and the country, including Honda, Toyota, General Electric, DuPont, Tyco, General Motors, Graham, Arkema, Truck-Lite, West Pharmaceutical Services, and Alcan. As opportunities like this continue with a bright future, consider a career in plastics.
Plastics & Polymer Technology News
Penn College Hosts 10th Annual Extrusion Seminar
May 2008
Student Creates Remote-Control Race to Promote Plastics
May 2008
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High Schools Visit for Plastics Experience
May 2008
Students from six high schools attended “The Penn College Plastics Experience” on May 15. Students from Danville, Elizabethtown, Line Mountain, Loyalsock and Milton high schools and Watsontown Christian Academy attended workshops in the college’s plastics laboratories, led by Penn College students. The day ended with a remote-controlled-car competition between teams from Loyalsock and Milton high schools. The high school students molded their own car frames and raced them on a 300-foot track in the college’s Field House. The race was developed by student Benjamin Campana for his senior project and implemented by students in the plastics and polymer department’s project management class.'Road Scholars Tour' Includes Penn College Stop
May 2008
Roughly 55 participants hit the highway for the 13th annual Road Scholars Tour on Monday. The tour, held May 12-13, offers new and newly tenured Penn State faculty opportunities to learn about the university and Pennsylvania as they travel to several Penn State campuses, businesses and popular historic sites. This year's tour visits four university locations – including Penn College – as well as the Capitol Building in Harrisburg, an Amish farm in Lancaster County, Eckley Miners' Village in Weatherly, Samuel S. Lewis State Park in Lewisberry, the Milton S. Hershey School in Hershey, the Starbucks coffee-roasting plant in York and Sterman Masser Inc. in Sacramento. For more from the first day of the tour, visit
online.( Photos by Lisa M. Powers, Penn State director of public information)
Students, Faculty Take Part in Elementary 'Math and Science Night'
February 2008
The Early Educators presented activities at the Cochran Elementary School's "Math and Science Night" on Thursday night, joined by students and faculty from the electronics and plastics programs in the School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies.( Photos by Barbara J. Albert, program specialist, early childhood education)