Engineering Technologies Articles

Two recent Pennsylvania College of Technology graduates are among the nation's top diesel/heavy equipment majors to receive tool scholarships from the mikeroweWORKS Foundation. Adam W. Borek, of Muncy, and Terrence E.

A first-year forest technology student at Pennsylvania College of Technology has received the latest scholarship from a fund that memorializes a longtime regional leader in the lumber industry. Griffin B. Welch, of Spring Mills, a recent graduate of Penns Valley Junior-Senior High School who will enter the two-year college major this fall, received a $1,000 award from the Richard P.

Forest technology student Dustin S. Beane and Carol A. Lugg, coordinator of matriculation and retention for the School of Natural Resources Management, visited students enrolled in the forestry program at Kane Area High School on Thursday to discuss opportunities in Penn College's forest technology major.

  Jeremy L. Thorne, a landscape/horticulture technology: landscape emphasis major from Sugarloaf, recently received the Silver Shovel award from the Maryland-based Denison Landscaping & Nursery Inc.

Fifteen Penn College horticulture students and instructor Carl J. Bower Jr. recently took a field trip to the gardens of the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. Botanical Garden in Washington, D.C. While there, the group met with Sarah A. Tietbohl, a 2005 floral design/interior plantscape alumna and a 2006 graduate in technology management.

About 65 students in Pennsylvania College of Technology's heavy construction equipment and diesel technology majors were treated to a recent demonstration of Volvo pipe-laying equipment at the Wayne Township Landfill in McElhattan. The event, the latest in Volvo's ongoing partnership with the college, was a collaboration among Henry J.

  Students in the computer aided design majors at Pennsylvania College of Technology concluded a year's worth of design work and gained some appreciative comments from students outside the class when they tested their projects on a Penn College parking lot. The students designed pedal-powered, four-wheeled "quad cycles" with frames made of 1-inch PVC pipe.

A mix of about 12 Penn College faculty members and students volunteered at the Susquehanna 500 Mini-Indy the local Red Cross's largest fundraising event that was postponed from September. Penn College automotive students and faculty from automotive and machining provided technical support for the race, in which teams comprised of businesses or individuals raise money for the Red Cross.

A mix of about 12 Penn College faculty members and students volunteered at the Susquehanna 500 Mini-Indy the local Red Cross's largest fundraising event that was postponed from September. Penn College automotive students and faculty from automotive and machining provided technical support for the race, in which teams comprised of businesses or individuals raise money for the Red Cross.

Drawing upon decades of experience in the automobile industry and an ongoing "Cars are fun!" enthusiasm for classic vehicles, a former General Motors executive told Pennsylvania College of Technology students Friday that they are entering a solid career at a time of unprecedented opportunity.