School of Industrial & Engineering Technologies
Avco-Lycoming Metal Trades Center, Rm. 104A · (570) 320-2400, ext. 7773
Pennsylvania College of Technology's Welding Technology Department is one of six departments within the School of Industrial
& Engineering Technologies. Our mission is to provide our students with the hands-on skills and knowledge required to succeed in the welding industry.
Currently the Welding Technology Department offers three programs of study:
All majors are supported by a common core of technical welding courses that encompass the most common welding and cutting processes in use by the welding industry.
Small classes enable our experienced faculty to give each student the personal attention necessary to optimize his or her learning experience. With over eighty years of combined industry and teaching experience, the welding faculty have a diversified background in the welding field.
The welding department also supports the American Welding Society student organization.
Penn College TV Series Receives Top ‘Communicator’ Award
June 2009
An episode of Penn College's “degrees that work.” career-awareness television series, a co-production with WVIA-TV, has received the highest honor in the 2009 Communicator Awards, which honors the best creative work in the communications fields. The episode, which profiled careers in welding, won the Award of Excellence, also known as the Gold Communicator Award, in the documentary category. The recognition is given to those "entries whose ability to communicate puts them among the best in the field." Continue to story
Penn College TV Series Receives Silver Telly Award
May 2009
Penn College’s career-awareness television series – “degrees that work.” – has been honored with a Silver Telly (the annual Telly Awards’ highest honor) for an episode on welding. A co-production of the college and WVIA-TV, “degrees that work.” highlights career fields identified by state and federal labor officials as important for future employment growth. Continue to story
Penn College Presents Honors to Two Alumni
May 2009
Alumni honored at commencement
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Penn College presented a Distinguished Alumnus Award to Robert O. Rolley Jr. and an Alumnus Achievement Award to Robert V. Blauser during Spring 2009 Commencement ceremonies held May 15 at the Community Arts Center.
Rolley, of Lock Haven, received an associate degree in journalism from Penn College predecessor Williamsport Area Community College in 1983. He is the publisher of The (Lock Haven) Express community newspaper. Blauser, of Lancaster, received a bachelor’s degree in welding and fabrication engineering technology from Penn College in 2000 and an associate degree in welding technology in 1996. He received a Master of Business Administration in general management in 2008 from York College of Pennsylvania. He is employed by Harley-Davison Motor Co., York, as engineering leader. Continue to story
John Deere Foundation Establishes Scholarship for Welding Students
April 2009
John Deere establishes scholarship
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One of the world's most recognizable names in agricultural and heavy construction equipment is providing scholarship opportunities for welding students at Penn College. The college's Corporate Relations Office recently finalized an agreement with the John Deere Foundation that will result in four scholarship awards of $3,000 each for students in the college's welding and fabrication engineering technology bachelor-degree major or the welding technology associate-degree major. Continue to story
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