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Bookended by two aircraft from the college's instructional fleet – a Grumman A-6 Intruder and a Boeing 727 – aviation instructor Michael R. Robison (back to camera) conducts a tour. Thomas D. Inman, associate professor of aviation, demonstrates a student-built autopilot simulator. Campus guests seize the moment in the cockpit of the 727. Plastics technology professor Kirk M.

Bookended by two aircraft from the college's instructional fleet – a Grumman A-6 Intruder and a Boeing 727 – aviation instructor Michael R. Robison (back to camera) conducts a tour. Thomas D. Inman, associate professor of aviation, demonstrates a student-built autopilot simulator. Campus guests seize the moment in the cockpit of the 727. Plastics technology professor Kirk M.

Cameron Manufacturing & Design, of Horseheads, N.Y., has established a new scholarship fund for students at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Board of Directors on Thursday approved emeritus status for Donald O. Praster, who served the college as an administrator and faculty member for more than three decades. Praster retired in June 2012 as dean of industrial and engineering technologies at Penn College. He began his employment with the college 36 years earlier as a welding faculty member.

The family of the late Ryan and Karen English recently delivered a check to Pennsylvania College of Technology to be added to a scholarship fund started in 2011 by Ryan in support of students in the electronics and computer engineering technology majors. The Ryan and Karen English Marcellus Measurement Scholarship will provide perpetual annual awards.

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Plastics Innovation & Resource Center hosted its annual Extrusion Seminar & Hands-On Workshop in June, attracting 45 participants from 29 companies in the United States and Canada. The workshop, led by extrusion experts Chris Rauwendaal and Penn College plastics technology professor Kirk M.

As they have for the past four years, horticulture faculty and staff from Penn College's School of Natural Resources Management served as judges for state FFA Activities Week.

The iconic black and yellow of CAT equipment lends familiarity to instructor training. Caterpillar's Dan Johnson works with several secondary instructors at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center near Allenwood.

A two-day workshop at Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Plastics Innovation & Resource Center brought nearly 20 participants from four states, two Canadian provinces, the West Indies and Mexico to northcentral Pennsylvania, where they learned from experts in the rotational molding industry.

A Kylertown man who comes from a family with three generations of alumni has donated a Cessna 175C airplane to Pennsylvania College of Technology. Gary Gable, who graduated from Penn College forerunner Williamsport Area Community College with a certificate in electrical technology in 1974, donated the plane with co-owner Charles Michaelis.