Engineering Technologies Articles

Using a lab vehicle as a convenient visual aid ... ... Trooper Cory Beaver brings student up-to-date on prevailing motor carrier regulations. Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Cory Beaver, accompanied by Motor Carrier Enforcement Officer Will Latchet, made their annual visit to Penn College's Schneebeli Earth Science Center on Thursday afternoon.

Daniel J. Clarke, among the Penn College alumni who frequently (and magnanimously) return to campus for current students' benefit PowerPoint slides depict a global explosion of information and the technology needed to manage it, creating a need for careers beyond imagination.

The Penn College seal and a nod to his major are included in Jared T. Burrey's winning design ... ... while Alisha A. Ortiz took a more seasonal tack. More than 50 first-year students in Penn College’s engineering design technology major employed their 3-D computer skills for virtual pumpkin-carving during a recent Halloween contest.

Penn College forest technology majors are among a select group of students nationwide employing a new data-collection application from Forest Metrix. The software, used in conjunction with an iPad, is featured in a video on the college's YouTube Channel. "It records all the data you need it to. It will record the diameter of the tree, how big it is and how tall it is," explains Alyssa A.

The Pennsylvania College of Technology Woodsmen’s Team competed in the 20th annual John G. Palmer Intercollegiate Woodsmen’s Meet held recently at The Cradle of Forestry in North Carolina. Penn College fielded one of seven teams to compete during the Oct. 17 meet that was hosted by Haywood Community College at the U.S. Forest Service site in Pisgah National Forest.

A bountiful basket Halloween hangers-on Students craft decorative delights. Striking design includes the distinctive colors of the season. Students in a floral design class taught by Karen R.

On-site power generation students at Pennsylvania College of Technology have been awarded two of five $2,500 national scholarships announced this academic year by the Electrical Generating Systems Association. Among the David I. Coren Memorial Scholarship winners for the 2015-16 year are Garritt R. Aucker, of Winfield, and Dakota G. Schwartz, of Trevose. Garritt R. Aucker Dakota G.

Matt R. Gingerich shows students the Erb Brothers container nursery area. Longwood's entrance, dressed for fall At 14 feet high and 300 feet long, Longwood Gardens' famous interior Green Wall is the largest in North America. On Tuesday, 27 members of the Horticulture Club and two faculty – Dennis P. Skinner, assistant professor, and Carl J.

The past president of the nation’s largest independent honey company and his wife have endowed a scholarship for machining students at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The Kitt and Bill Gamber Scholarship will benefit full-time students enrolled in the college’s machine tool technology associate-degree major.

Welding lab becomes Halloween haunt Arc Asylum, a "haunted" Halloween attraction, will be held from 7-10 p.m. Friday in the welding lab (Room A132 of the Avco-Lycoming Metal Trades Center). Admission is $5 per person, and at least one person in each group of six must have a valid Penn College ID. Family and friends are welcome; there is a parental advisory for children 12 and younger.