Scott McMasters, a digital delivery-highway design manager for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, recently made a return visit to Penn College’s construction management and civil engineering technology classrooms, where he shared PennDOT’s move to use digital 3D modeling as its base documentation throughout its construction projects – from bid to completion.
In a recently produced Penn College video, get student Anna R. Lundin's perspective on one of her favorite civil engineering courses – CET238 Origin, Distribution, & Behavior of Soils. Hop from field exercises to lab assessments in this quick rundown of Penn College's hands-on approach to lab-based learning.
Penn College Career Services has scheduled the first of this fall’s series of “pop-up” Employer Information Tables. Students should stop by to learn more about career opportunities – and bring their resumes.
Ten Pennsylvania College of Technology students were recently awarded financial assistance through the Allan Myers Corporate Scholars program. Allan Myers, one of the mid-Atlantic’s largest heavy civil construction firms, is a decades-long supporter of the college and its “tomorrow maker” students.
A Pennsylvania College of Technology civil engineering technology student is one of nine undergraduates statewide to receive a scholarship from the Pennsylvania Land Surveyors’ Foundation. Ethan A. Hillenbrand, of Harrisburg, earned a $2,000 scholarship, awarded by the Pennsylvania Society of Land Surveyors at its conference in Hershey.
Five employers will host “pop-up” recruiting visits April 14-17. Interested students should stop by these Employer Information Tables to learn more about the career opportunities. Bring those resumes!
A Penn College alumnus, representing the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, met with civil engineering technology and construction management students last week to provide an overview of PennDOT’s digital delivery program, an initiative that is modernizing its delivery processes and contract documentation to incorporate digital data.
For Penn College students seeking job or internship opportunities, Career Services has scheduled two Pop-Up Employer Information Tables on campus this week: On Monday, Oct. 28, Letterkenny Army Depot is hosting a table in the Hager Lifelong Education Center lobby (outside of KDR) from 10 am to 2 pm. On Wednesday, Oct. 30, Friends in Action is hosting a table in the Carl Building Technologies Center hallway from 10 am to 2 pm.
Herbert, Rowland & Grubic, Inc. is setting up an employer information table on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at Pennsylvania College of Technology. HRG is recruiting for the following positions: civil staff engineer, civil engineering intern, land development engineer, water and wastewater engineer, transportation/traffic engineer; bridge design engineer and highway engineer. Interested students should bring their resumes.
European research into self-monitoring and self-healing concrete was shared Wednesday evening with Penn College students in civil engineering and a variety of construction-related majors. The hourlong seminar was delivered by Andrzej Cwirzen, head of the Building Materials Research Group at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden.
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