Engineering Technologies Articles

A $1,000 grant toward the purchase of a new lumber-drying kiln chamber for forestry students at Pennsylvania College of Technology has been provided by the Pennsylvania Forest Products Association. The kiln will enhance the industry-standard curriculum for students in Penn College's two-year forest technology major.

For the second consecutive year, more than 50 Pennsylvania College of Technology students proved their computer-aided design prowess by passing a prominent industry certification test. The students successfully completed the Certified SolidWorks Associate exam. SolidWorks is a 3-D modeling, computer-aided software program employed by more than 3 million product designers and engineers worldwide.

A 1947 Packard Custom Super Clipper has been entrusted to Pennsylvania College of Technology’s automotive restoration program by Eleanor Packard, whose late husband – while no relation to the manufacturer – had a longtime connection to the classic American luxury car.

Jeremy L. Thorne at Arlington National Cemetery An honors graduate of Penn College's two-year landscape/horticulture technology major was among more than 400 volunteer landscape professionals taking part in Monday's 20th anniversary Renewal & Remembrance day of service arranged by the National Association of Landscape Professionals at Arlington National Cemetery.

Entering the bonsai area of Carl and Jessica Bower's garden All aboard the garden train! An espalier cherry dogwood, among the eye-catching features in the Bowers' garden Grapes wind their way along a pergola. A vegetable garden, rain barrel and pizza oven add to backyard haven.

A series of academic-based camps at Pennsylvania College of Technology included enough information to satisfy minds hungry for challenge, while not forgetting that it IS summer.

More than two dozen professionals recently gathered at Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Plastics Innovation & Resource Center to learn about rotational molding from some of the most knowledgeable practitioners in the business.

A determined group of Pennsylvania College of Technology students enrolled in manufacturing-related majors proved to be among the best in the world at a recent high-powered international competition. The nine-member Penn College contingent produced three top-five showings for individual events and finished 11th overall out of 98 collegiate teams at Baja SAE Rochester.

Team Hammertime includes Penn College student Alexander J. Horne (far left). A student in Penn College's manufacturing engineering technology major will compete on ABC's "BattleBots" when the popular series begins its second season at 8 p.m. Thursday. Alexander J.

Barbara Helen Williams A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday for Barbara Helen Williams, a professor emeritus at Penn College, who died Monday.