Construction & Architecture Articles

Hughesville Cub Scout Pack 80 recently visited Penn College, addressing various topics including conservation, art, the environment, crafts and science as they continue their strides toward becoming Boy Scouts. "It was an incredible night in both the plastics labs and the construction labs," said Carl J. Shaner, college health services director and a member of the troop's Parent Committee.

A State College highway and heavy construction firm has established a scholarship fund to support students in several majors at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The HRI Inc.

Forty Penn State architecture majors traveled to Pennsylvania College of Technology on Wednesday, working side-by-side with faculty and students from Penn College's School of Construction and Design Technologies.

A local construction company has established a scholarship at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Williamsport-based J&M Construction Specialty Inc. will provide an annual award of $2,000 beginning in Spring 2010. The company has committed to provide the scholarship for three years.

Three of Pennsylvania College of Technology's academic schools were represented recently at the Central Pennsylvania Construction Career Day in York. Steven K. McCoy, coordinator of matriculation and retention for the School of Construction and Design Technologies; Melissa M. Stocum, coordinator of matriculation and retention for the School of Natural Resources Management; and Stacey C.

Penn College's Schools of Construction and Design Technologies and Natural Resources Management were well-represented at Connecticut Construction Career Days , held Oct. 2-3 at Mountainridge in Wallingford, Conn. The goal of the program is to heighten student awareness of careers in the construction industry and to help replenish the supply of skilled construction professionals.

Pennsylvania College of Technology is ranked in the top 50 associate-degree-producing colleges in the nation and is in the top 20 for several areas of study-- including three top-five rankings-- in a recent survey conducted by a national publication covering community, technical and junior colleges.

Air Force Col. Frank Sullivan, an alumnus of Penn College's immediate predecessor, discussed construction opportunities in the U.S. State Department andabroad during an appearance in the PDC Mountain Laurel Room on Tuesday.

Four Pennsylvania College of Technology students have received scholarship awards from the Architectural Woodwork Institute, which also has honored the college with its first Presidential Award of Excellence in Woodworking Education. Andrew P. Hoover, Altoona; Jason M. Klinedinst, New Oxford; Keith A. Fessler Jr., Pine Grove; and Adam S.

The Remembrance Garden, at the east side of the Carl Building Technologies Center, has been completed by students from Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Construction and Design Technologies and will officially open Sunday. The area was designed by architecture technology students and constructed by students in all of the concrete classes. Those classes instructed by Daniel L.