Engineering Technologies Articles

The president and CEO of a well-known State College-based highway construction company and his wife have established a scholarship at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Daniel R. and Suzie Hawbaker recently created the Hawbaker Family Scholarship at Penn College. Daniel Hawbaker heads Glenn O.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty member presented a paper and received multiple honors at the recent Autodesk University Conference in Las Vegas. J.D. Mather, assistant professor of engineering design technology, presented “Finite Element Analysis for the Casual User in Inventor.” Autodesk Inventor is 3-D parametric design software used for product and mechanical design.

Nine students in Pennsylvania College of Technology’s School of Transportation & Natural Resources Technologies passed the Pennsylvania Pesticide Applicator Certification test administered Nov. 24.

Michael A. Cramer proudly displays his artistry in the Avco-Lycoming Metal Trades Center. The headdress took about a month to complete ... ... with painstaking detail that confirms the work involved.

A seasonal accent to Pennsylvania College of Technology’s main entrance has gift-wrapped an opportunity for the institution to recognize its military family. A 25-foot-tall tree pays tribute to the students and employees who are veterans. The Vanderwolf blue limber pine is adorned with 408 stars, fashioned by servicemen enrolled in the School of Industrial, Computing & Engineering Technologies.

Participants in the Williamsport Area Middle School After-School Program are again spending one afternoon each week at Pennsylvania College of Technology, where college employees help them explore careers in science, technology, engineering and math.

A tree along the main campus entrance has been decorated with 408 stars, each representing a military member of the Penn College community – and each fashioned by a serviceman enrolled in the School of Industrial, Computing and Engineering Technologies. Using the 60-ton Minster 5 press in the Machining Technologies Center, students of Howard W. Troup, maintenance mechanic/millwright, and Keith H.

A mock-up of a oil tanker's bulkhead has been fabricated by Steven J. Kopera's welding students ... Cutaway drawings help Kopera's students envision the scope of the work. ... who are living an on-the-job scenario in their Penn College lab.

A Williamsport Area Middle School eighth-grader handles the controls of an industrial robot. Penn College student John M. Good IV (in hat) demonstrates computer-aided drafting to a pair of middle-schoolers. Middle-schoolers take a close look at a CNC-machined wrench before watching the process.

Four students in the School of Industrial, Computing & Engineering Technologies have each been awarded $2,500 scholarships from the Gene Haas Foundation, furthering the generous benefactor’s longtime partnership with Pennsylvania College of Technology. Scholarship recipients are automated manufacturing technology majors Austin R. Ayars, of Nazareth, and Austin R.