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A new Pennsylvania College of Technology associate degree, the latest industry-aware major at an institution that grows "greener" by the day, will prepare students for careers in the renewable energy field. Beginning with the Fall 2010 semester, the college's School of Construction and Design Technologies will offer a two-year degree in renewable energy technologies.

A new scholarship fund at Pennsylvania College of Technology memorializes an instructor at the college who passed away last October. Joseph M. Younes lost his battle with cancer on Oct. 23 at the age of 54. Younes was an instructor of electrical technology/occupations at Penn College for 16 years, and he was an alumnus of the college's electrical technology major. The Joseph M.

On an appropriately sunny Thursday afternoon, students from Penn College's School of Construction and Design Technologies set the poles that will anchor an array of solar panels southwest of the Victorian House.

A regional distributor of Automated Logic's Building Automation Controls equipment recently spearheaded a gift of $82,000 in instructional equipment to benefit students in Pennsylvania College of Technology's increasingly popular building automation technology major.

The Spring 2008 winner of the PCToday photo contest, which challengingly sought campus depictions of triangles, is "Rock 'n' Puddle," David P. Fabrizio Jr.'s orange-filtered look at a sidewalk after a downpour. An electrical occupations student from Coatesville, he wins $25 gift certificates from the College Store and Food Services.

Students and a faculty member from Pennsylvania College of Technology recently attended the Electrical Generating Systems Association On-Site Power School in New Orleans, participating in training sessions and meeting potential employers among the key industry representatives that attended. The group five students in the electric power generation technology major and Jon W.

A new scholarship fund at Pennsylvania College of Technology will memorialize a past president of the Mechanical Contractors Association of America. The Mechanical Contractors Association of Northwest Pennsylvania has established the "Mechanical Contractors Association of Northwest Pennsylvania, Foster McCarl, Jr.

The founder of an Altoona firm with operations in three states will be memorialized with a new scholarship at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

(The following is drawn from remarks by Davie Jane Gilmour, Pennsylvania College of Technology president, during a May 12 all-college meeting to close the Spring 2005 semester.) Good morning. As you can see from the " Penn College & You" episode showing as you entered the auditorium, our construction students did an excellent job at the National Home Builders show in Orlando , Fla.