Engineering Technologies Articles

The official association for the landscape contracting and lawn-care industry has fully accredited Pennsylvania College of Technology's landscape/nursery technology majors. The Professional Landcare Network will formally present the accreditation at a faculty forum during its Student Career Days at Michigan State University from March 29 to April 1.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's computer aided drafting technology major was recently recertified by the American Design Drafting Association. ADDA, an organization for designers, drafters, architects, illustrators and technical artists, provides curriculum certification to recognize schools whose curriculum in design/drafting meets the standards established and approved by ADDA.

Two Pennsylvania College of Technology alumni and a returning student have been state-certified as horticulturists on the basis of their performance in a recent four-part examination. Jennifer L. Grenoble, Pine Grove Mills, and Abigail J. Gehman, Middleburg both of whom graduated earlier this month with associate degrees in landscape/nursery technology and Lisa A.

The founder of an Altoona firm with operations in three states will be memorialized with a new scholarship at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

A faculty member and a student in Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Natural Resources Management were among the honorees during the Pennsylvania Landscape and Nursery Association's annual conference, held Feb. 7-9 at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in State College. Richard J.

The two-year computer-aided drafting technology major at Pennsylvania College of Technology has been recertified by the American Design Drafting Association, a distinction currently held by only four schools in the commonwealth. "It is programs such as yours that assure competent design and drafting professionals for the future," noted the ADDA letter that accompanied the recertification notice.

Students from the School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies recently toured the U.S. Department of Defense Supply Center: Richmond Army Depot in Mechanicsburg. Manufacturing engineering technology, welding and fabrication engineering technology and electronics engineering technology students came together to see the opportunities that exist with the depot, which employs more than 5,000.

Pennsylvania College of Technology recently became the newest partner in American Honda Motor Co. Inc.'s Professional Automotive Career Training program, designed to provide experienced, certified and loyal automotive-service technicians for Honda/Acura dealerships in major U.S. markets.

Several faculty and staff members from John Tyler Community College in Midlothian, Va., toured the School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies on Friday, led by Dean Lawrence J. Fryda. The Virginia college is constructing a new building for its industrial arts program and sought Penn College's "exemplary" industrial and engineering facilities as an example.

In another example of Penn College students giving back to their community, the Horticulture Technicians Association and PennDOT worked together Thursday to beautify the Interstate 180/Maynard Street interchange area. Student members of the club and lead horticulture professor/club adviser Richard J. Weilminster are planting 2,000 daffodil bulbs along the highway's on- and off-ramps.