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A senior in Penn College's four-year building automation technology major is part of a short video that Southland Industries is using to promote its internship program. Clayton J.

Students in Pennsylvania College of Technology's new renewable energy technologies major soon will benefit from a highly visible instructional tool: a 10-kilowatt wind turbine to be erected this fall near the college's Schneebeli Earth Science Center south of Williamsport. A $96,425 grant from the U.S.

With a number of campus events scheduled amid the early-summer swelter and the pending replacement of rooftop units affecting air-conditioning delivery to the Thompson Professional Development Center a cross-college contingency was employed to help keep visitors cool.

A grant-funded student project at Pennsylvania College of Technology is bringing today's "green" sensitivity to a campus landmark that celebrates Williamsport's lumber prominence in the 1800s. An array of photovoltaic panels has been installed just southwest of the college's Victorian House, a student-designed-and-built guest facility that was dedicated in June 1997.

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.