Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Photos by Alexandra Butler, photographer/photo editor
Ryan Aument (center), state director for U.S. Sen. David H. McCormick (R-Pa.), and Juliet Harshbarger (right), McCormick's north central PA regional manager, learn about electric discharge machining from Bradley M. Webb, Penn College's dean of engineering technologies, on an insightful tour of college labs and student services.
Senior leadership from the staff of U.S. Sen. David H. McCormick (R-Pa.) visited Pennsylvania College of Technology on Tuesday, taking in the impressive labs and touring the college’s equally impressive Career Fair, attracting hundreds of employers eager to recruit the career-ready students.
Ryan Aument, McCormick’s state director, and Juliet Harshbarger, north central PA regional manager, were welcomed in the Davie Jane Gilmour Center by Penn College President Michael J. Reed; Amanda Wintersteen, assistant vice president for federal relations, Penn State; Matt Wise, district director for state Sen. Gene Yaw, R-23rd District, chair of the college’s Board of Directors; and Patrick Marty, chief government & international relations officer, Penn College.
On main campus, in addition to seeing the Career Fair in Bardo Gymnasium, their tour covered automated manufacturing, machining, welding and metal fabrication labs, and also featured The Madigan Library, the Center for Career Design and the Bush Campus Center. They then traveled to the college’s Schneebeli Earth Science Center to view labs in diesel and power generation, landscape/plant production and forestry.
At Career Fair, Aument and Harshbarger converse with participants, including James T. Barrett (on left in orange), a field engineer with The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. and 2021 graduate of the college's construction management major. Behind Aument is Wise.
The two members of McCormick's in-state leadership team are welcomed to Penn College in the lobby of the Davie Jane Gilmour Center. From left: Aument, Reed, Harshbarger, Wise, Wintersteen and Marty.
The expansive Larry A. Ward Machining Technologies Center is among the college's impressive labs on the tour.
Aument and Harshbarger pose with a trio from the college's trailblazing Baja SAE team (in background from left): Trevor J. Lindsay, of Mechanicsburg; Brian P. Rogers, of Kunkletown; and Camren J. Ferrara, of Lock Haven. Lindsay and Rogers are manufacturing engineering technology students, and Ferrara is enrolled in engineering design technology.
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