Engineering Technologies Articles

Rising ninth- and 10th-grade students attending this week's SMART Girls residential activities at Penn College visited the Schneebeli Earth Science Center near Allenwood on Wednesday, learning about ornamental horticulture majors in the morning and spending the afternoon at the heavy construction equipment training site.

Pennsylvania College of Technology recently hosted 22 area high school students on campus during its free Discover Engineering Technology Camp.

Fourteen ornamental horticulture students along with Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty members Carl J. Bower, Dennis Fink and Dennis P. Skinner, and Melissa M. Stocum, coordinator of matriculation and retention for the School of Natural Resources Management enjoyed a beautiful and education-filled field trip to the Philadelphia area on April 29.

This week's Green Tip is from the Horticulture Club: With lawn-mowing season upon us, you might consider your old lawn mower and how it performs. If you have a small lawn, you may wish to switch to a reel mower (the type that you manually push through your lawn).

Students in the ornamental horticulture: landscape technology major at Pennsylvania College of Technology's Schneebeli Earth Science Center constantly are working on projects that add lasting interest and beauty to the Allenwood-area campus. One such project, the Idea Garden, will combine several unique landscaping ideas and design features.

Five Pennsylvania College of Technology students and a faculty mentor recently volunteered to landscape the surroundings of the Williamsport YWCA, part of a national day of service organized by the trade organization that accredits the college's horticulture majors. Trimming, edging and mulching at the 815 W. Fourth St.

At the Williamsport Autodesk User Group meeting on April 27, a Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty member will make a presentation on new functionality for plastics part design in AutoCAD Inventor 2010 software. Topics to be covered by J.D.

This week's Green Tip, provided by Penn College's Horticulture Club, is about inexpensive and maintenance-free lighting for your garden. Solar garden lights are easy to install and can provide six to 12 hours of lighting each night. When installing solar lights, simply place them in the ground wherever you want them.

Three of Pennsylvania College of Technology's academic schools were represented recently at the Central Pennsylvania Construction Career Day in York. Steven K. McCoy, coordinator of matriculation and retention for the School of Construction and Design Technologies; Melissa M. Stocum, coordinator of matriculation and retention for the School of Natural Resources Management; and Stacey C.

A recent donation from a branch of the nation's largest full-service landscaping firm helped Pennsylvania College of Technology students build a walkway to the conifer garden at the college's School of Natural Resources Management.