Engineering Technologies Articles

Bradley M. Webb, dean of engineering technologies, is featured on the latest episode of “PA Newsmakers.” He discusses the state’s workforce needs and the role of technical education in meeting employer demand.

Pennsylvania College of Technology and Lancaster-based Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology have formed an articulation agreement benefiting students pursuing careers in the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration industry. The agreement enables graduates of the heating, ventilation, air conditioning & refrigeration associate degree at Thaddeus Stevens College to transfer credits seamlessly into one of two four-year majors at Penn College.

A longtime partner of Pennsylvania College of Technology is providing a new self-contained automated welding system to the institution. Miller Welding Automation, a business unit of Miller Electric Mfg. LLC, has entrusted a PerformArc 350S and related software to the welding program for three years.

Following an update to its own lab equipment, Pennsylvania College of Technology’s School of Engineering Technologies recently donated unused items to Mifflin County Academy of Science and Technology. Forty students from the academy toured the electrical and mechatronics technology labs, where they accepted the donation of equipment.

Pennsylvania College of Technology leaders highlighted the vital role of the institution in the age of artificial intelligence and automation at the recent Global Impact Forum in Pittsburgh.

On Oct. 8, 19 Pennsylvania College of Technology landscape/plant production technology students took a trip to Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, where they met with several graduates and toured the facility.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology aviation student is one of 15 nationwide recipients of scholarships awarded at the recent National Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition in Las Vegas. Liam B. Rosenfield, of Goshen, Connecticut, received the William M. Fanning Maintenance Scholarship.

Students in the Masonry Principles class, taught by Scott A. Bierly, instructor of building construction technology, recently applied their hands-on skills at the college’s Schneebeli Earth Science Center. Two sections of the class spent time at the campus – near Montgomery – to replace the bottom portion of two timber columns at the entrance of the center’s main building.

An industry leader has extended its long-standing commitment to the polymer engineering program at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Novatec Inc. – the largest U.S.-owned manufacturer of resin conveying, drying and complete material-handling systems for the plastics processing industry – has renewed for two years its entrustment of resources used by polymer students.

The Pennsylvania College of Technology Board of Directors approved two retired faculty for emeritus status during its Oct. 9 board meeting. Kirk M. Cantor, polymer engineering, and Keith A. Vanderlin, graphic design and art, received this recognition.