Engineering Technologies Articles

Eric C. Easton demonstrates the use of a compass. Erich R. Doebler discusses wood products in the School of Transportation & Natural Resources Technologies' sawmill. Students from Oley Valley, Athens Area and Wellsboro Area high schools – along with four FFA advisers – spent Tuesday at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center to get ready for competitions this fall in Massachusetts and Kentucky.

Penn College faculty and staff were among exhibitors at the Williamsport Business Association's "Fun in the Sun Day" on Saturday.

Pennsylvania College of Technology presented a Mentorship Award to alumnus Ronald A. Burger, co-owner of George Burger & Sons Inc. Garden Center in Luzerne County. The award was bestowed upon Burger by Penn College President Davie Jane Gilmour during a Summer Commencement ceremony held at the Community Arts Center, Williamsport.

David R. Cotner has been appointed dean of the School of Industrial, Computing & Engineering Technologies at Pennsylvania College of Technology, succeeding William E. Mack, who is stepping down for health reasons. Cotner had served as assistant dean of the school since January. Stacey C. Hampton has been named to succeed him in that role.

A camper gets a rare opportunity behind the controls of earth-moving machinery at Penn College's riverside heavy equipment training site. Mansfield University's second annual Marcellus Camp, a weeklong primer on the natural gas industry and the career and educational opportunities available after high school, included a recent visit to Penn College.

Chief Automotive Technologies' Jim Wrigley conducts a session in a College Avenue Labs classroom. Tips on paintless auto-body repair Metalworking is among the skills honed in the collision repair lab. Penn College instructor Roy H. Klinger schools participants on forming sheet-metal panels.

Research conducted by a Pennsylvania College of Technology alumnus for his senior project was incorporated into a paper presented at a recent regional conference by a retired faculty member. The paper was presented by Asesh K. Das, who retired in August 2012 as a professor of computer science, and was written by him and Michael K.

The editor of Mopar Muscle and Mopar Now magazines visited Penn College this past week, meeting with faculty and touring automotive and collision repair laboratories.

Fawns shun the sun in "natural" surroundings. Staking out a rare commodity on these hot and humid days – a patch of shade – these equally precious fawns visited Penn College's Schneebeli Earth Science Center on Thursday.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology student honed his high-tech skills on an extracurricular project that raised $250 for one of his favorite causes: Whitetails Unlimited. Nicholas J.