Engineering Technologies Articles

Associate professors Sandra Gorka and Daniel W. Yoas (left), as well as Jacob R. Miller (right), accompany students from the IT Living-Learning Community for a day of fun at Knoebels. Taking in the view from the Scenic Skyway Gorka snaps a student-laden selfie at the park entrance.

Pennsylvania College of Technology manufacturing students proved resilient against nature at the recent Baja SAE Tennessee Tech international competition. The students’ resourcefulness led to a higher finish than the previous year and renewed hope for a championship-caliber performance when they compete again in June.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology student earned first-runner-up honors in a national competition sponsored by COMMON, the world’s largest professional association of IBM technology users. Sebastian J.

Drizzly Arbor Day no deterrent to student workers In observance of Arbor Day, five Penn College students and a faculty member braved the rain for a Friday afternoon's work in Way's Garden. The students planted a Cherokee Brave pink dogwood tree and several small shrubs, as well as providing some pruning in the beloved Williamsport park at West Fourth and Maynard streets.

Michael K. Patterson shows how the heat of a torch can change the color of metal. Future Wildcats, perhaps? Matt W. Nolan offers a mini-primer in Metal Inert Gas welding.

Evergreen seedlings are held aloft by excited schoolchildren in the first-grade class of Barbara Stopper ... ... and by the third-graders of Brenda Kremser. First- and third-graders at St. John Neumann Regional Academy's elementary campus got an Arbor Day visit from a Penn College horticulture instructor on Friday, along with a take-home project to nurture. Carl J. Bower Jr.

Pennsylvania College of Technology has been honored with “Tree Campus USA” recognition for its commitment to effective urban forest management. Tree Campus USA is a national program created in 2008 by the Arbor Day Foundation to honor colleges and universities for effective campus forest management and for engaging employees and students in conservation goals.

Two Pennsylvania College of Technology students have received $1,000 national scholarships to help them purchase tools for their emerging careers in heavy construction equipment technology. Ronald A. Kepple, of Russell, and Alexander C.

LLC returns from daylong trip to Carlisle. Members of Penn College’s Automotive Living-Learning Community attended Saturday's Carlisle Spring Car Show. “Everyone is glad to be back on campus after a long day in traffic and walking around looking at cars and car parts,” said Eric D. Pruden, automotive instructor and LLC faculty liaison.

Seventeen first-place winners from Pennsylvania College of Technology have advanced to the 52nd annual National SkillsUSA Conference, to be held from June 20-24 in Louisville, Kentucky. Three other students finished in the top four places in their respective categories during the SkillsUSA Pennsylvania Leadership and Skills Conference held earlier this month in Hershey.