Engineering Technologies Articles

The Penn College Baja SAE team hopes to end its 2025 season on a high note this week at Baja SAE Carolina (Oct. 2-5).

UPMC and Pennsylvania College of Technology are deepening their longstanding partnership with a shared vision: to make northcentral Pennsylvania a destination for world-class education, cutting-edge health care and a thriving workforce. As part of this commitment, UPMC is contributing $500,000 to support the renovation of the Carl Building Technologies Center on Penn College’s main campus. In recognition of this investment, the new entrance to the facility will be named the UPMC Annex.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students will continue to have access to a high-tech manufacturing system, thanks to an entrustment renewal. Otto Bihler Maschinenfabrik and Bihler of America Inc. have renewed for two years their entrustment of a Bihler 4 Slide-NC metal stamping and forming center.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology student has been awarded a scholarship from the Tree Research & Education Endowment Fund, a charitable grant-making organization that supports urban and community forests. Trinity E. Willoughby, of Danville, earned the $5,000 Fran Ward Women in Arboriculture Scholarship.

Penn College Career Services has scheduled the first of this fall’s series of “pop-up” Employer Information Tables. Students should stop by to learn more about career opportunities – and bring their resumes.

Three Pennsylvania College of Technology students recently joined Friends in Action, International, for a one-week work trip to assist Ethnos360 at a training center in Missouri.

With the support of a National Science Foundation grant, Pennsylvania College of Technology is offering a pathway for high school students to earn 32 college credits and a certificate in polymer processing at no cost.

In the latest episode of Penn College’s “Tomorrow Makers” podcast, instructor Kendra N. Tomassacci enlightens listeners on the college’s engineering design technology and engineering CAD technology degrees.

Three members of Penn College’s Pennsylvania Xi Chapter of the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society organized a drive to collect first aid items for a medical clinic in Kenya. The students worked diligently to collect thousands of dollars’ worth of items, including thermometers, syringes, gloves, suturing and catheter kits, surgical supplies, stethoscopes and more.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology student is one of a dozen nationwide to receive a scholarship awarded by ESAB Corp. and the American Welding Society Foundation. Clayton J. Fegley, of McClure, earned the $5,000 scholarship through ESAB’s Future Fabricators Program.