Monday, September 19, 2022
For more than 100 years, Pennsylvania College of Technology has been empowering students to earn an applied technology education – one that leads to success in the global marketplace.
Thanks to alumni, corporate partners, employees, parents and friends, a new generation of Tomorrow Makers with real-world experience will fill industry demand for a highly skilled workforce. True to the college’s hands-on approach to education, the Legacy Campaign for Penn College was a collective commitment to the future. Upon announcing her 2022 retirement, President Davie Jane Gilmour launched campaign efforts, inviting all hands in to empower students to create the world we want to live in.
The Penn College Foundation Golf Classic raises a record $140,360 for student scholarships.
A new Global Experience Fund supports student discovery.
More than 350 scholarship funds provide $1.35 million in scholarship awards, allowing for more skilled technicians, engineers, bakers, dental hygienists and business leaders – to name a few.
“Receiving a scholarship has only made me more committed to finishing my degree, using my skills in the software industry and making all the people who took the time out to invest in my future proud.”
“The most memorable experience in Spain was standing in front of Catedral de Granada. It quite literally took my breath away. Architecture has this unique ability to impact people’s emotions.”
The newly named Foley Hydraulics Lab honors a five-year commitment that will help purchase supplies and equipment for heavy construction equipment technology and electric power generation technology majors.
A Welding Expansion Project makes the Lycoming Engines Metal Trades Center one of the largest welding facilities in U.S. higher education.
The Machining Technologies Center is remodeled, re-equipped and renamed for Larry A. Ward ’66.
An Ss Brewtech brewing system provides new learning opportunities for brewing & fermentation science students.
“I’m extremely grateful. These new machines really do make a difference to our program.”
The Baja SAE team wins two off-road endurance races against other top engineering schools.
Athletics teams (golf and softball) win conference championships and compete at the NCAA tournament level for the first time in college history, while student-athletes earn a 3.21 average cumulative GPA – the college’s highest ever.
The Dr. Welch Charitable Trust provides perpetual resources for the Dr. Welch Workshop: A Makerspace at Penn College.
“Helping lead the Baja team has by far been the most influential experience in the foundation of my career path. In this position, I am not only met with a great deal of my own adversity, but I regularly help lead others through theirs.”
as of June 30, 2022
* Penn College Employee (as of June 1, 2022)
* Penn College Employee (as of June 1, 2022)
* Penn College Employee (as of June 1, 2022)
* Penn College Employee (as of June 1, 2022)
* Penn College Employee (as of June 1, 2022)
* Penn College Employee (as of June 1, 2022)
