Engineering Technologies Articles

An instructional model of a 2001 Acura CL, given to Pennsylvania College of Technology in its partnership with American Honda Motor Co., has been "redonated" for the enrichment of students at the Columbia-Montour Area Vocational-Technical School.

A $3,000 grant will provide the literal seed money for a conifer garden at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center, Pennsylvania College of Technology's living laboratory about 10 miles south of the Williamsport main campus.

Penn College's Horticulture Club has donated $425 to the American Cancer Society's "Relay for Life" effort. The student organization based at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center and advised by horticulture faculty member Carl J. Bower sold individual flowers and contributed $5 from each floral arrangement sold during a recent breast-cancer awareness observance.

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.