Engineering Technologies Articles

Two freshmen students at Pennsylvania College of Technology capped their high-school careers in impressive fashion. They earned a second-place showing at the 2016 Future Business Leaders of America National Leadership Conference in Atlanta. Joseph C. Lusk, of Linden, and Austin J.

Caleb G. Schirmer Kathryn Wentzel Lumley Aviation Center hangar George S. Klump Academic Center From the Fall 2016 Penn College Magazine: Former student photographer Caleb G. Schirmer, ’16, explores the diversity of doors on Penn College’s campuses – and the opportunities waiting on the other side.  Read "Behind Every Door."

An international professional and educational organization has affirmed the high quality of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s engineering CAD technology curriculum by recertifying the associate degree.

The excellence of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s welding program has been recognized by one of the world’s technology leaders in arc welding. Fronius USA LLC is generously entrusting equipment to support the education of welding students. Approximately 350 Penn College students will use the Fronius welding equipment during the 2016-17 academic year.

“Here I am, somewhere on the reservation,” Katalynn M. Thomas says of this photo, taken during the first week of her internship with the Bureau of Indian Affairs-Rocky Mountain Region. The forest technology student helped to assess woodlands within a 445,000-acre reservation in Lame Deer, Montana.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology plastics major is the sole nationwide recipient of a scholarship from the Blow Molding Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers. Seth E. Cook, of Mountville, a senior enrolled in the college’s plastics and polymer engineering technology bachelor-degree major, received the 2016 Carrie Fox Solin Memorial Scholarship.

A mechanic, pinstriper and sign painter, Anthony D. Di Liberto is merging his twin passions of cars and art as a first-year student in Penn College's automotive restoration technology major. The young man with old-school dedication to his craft is featured in a YouTube video filmed before he graduated from New Milford High School in New Jersey.

The intertwined histories of an employee-owned architectural engineering survey firm and a national leader in applied technology education have resulted in a new scholarship fund in honor of a company co-founder. In the midst of marking its 30th anniversary, Larson Design Group recently announced that it has begun fundraising for the Ken Larson Scholarship at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

WNEP on campus Newswatch 16's Kristina Papa visited Penn College's main campus for a "back-to-school" story on the first day of classes, stopping by the Honda PACT lab to talk with first-year students Junior A. Arias, of Hazleton, and Jack T. Glendenning, of Doylestown, and capturing video footage of pedestrian traffic outside the Keystone Dining Room.

Pennsylvania College of Technology and its Plastics Innovation & Resource Center brought plastics professionals from 10 states and Canada to campus for the recent Seventh Annual Hands-On Thin-Gauge/Roll-Fed Thermoforming Workshop. The 32 participants, representing 21 companies, experienced presentations and hands-on sessions during the three-day workshop.