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Wolfe (front row, sixth from right) was among those who returned to campus in October 2013 for the 50th anniversary of computer instruction at the college. The funeral was this past week for George P. Wolfe Sr., a retired associate professor of computer information technology, who died Dec. 19 at the age of 92.

An agreement with Cleveland Brothers Equipment Co., a time-honored corporate partner of Pennsylvania College of Technology, pairs a qualified technician with students in the electrical power generation curriculum for preventative maintenance of the institution’s electrical generators.

Twenty-six participants from 14 career and technical education centers took part in Pennsylvania College of Technology’s second annual diesel competition at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center, which offered an impressive exhibition of student know-how and an impactful celebration of what it portends for the industry’s sustenance.

The founder and president of a Troy manufacturing company, who is also an alumnus of Pennsylvania College of Technology predecessor institution Williamsport Area Community College, has established two scholarships to benefit students in engineering design and manufacturing majors. John M.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students received more than a third of all scholarships from a foundation devoted to skilled manufacturing careers.

Nearly 30 years ago, Eli M. Hughes was a disinterested high school student touring an electronics lab at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Today, he is a successful entrepreneur, powered by a passion sparked by his campus visit and subsequent education. The 2001 graduate is a self-described “full-stack problem-solver” with several electronics-rooted patents to his name.

Challenges are a mere blip on Coryn A. Oswald’s radar. While a plastics & polymer engineering technology student, she survived a life-changing motorcycle accident and returned to Penn College stronger than ever. Today, she’s thriving – thanks to the friendships and support she’s found on the Wildcat volleyball team.

Construction management students at Pennsylvania College of Technology brought home second- and third-place honors from the 33rd annual Associated Schools of Construction Region 1 Student Competition, held Nov. 10-12 in Albany, New York. Penn College’s Heavy Highway/Civil Estimating team, one of 10 colleges in that division, placed second.

William A. "Bill" Kranz, a former faculty member and a Williamsport Area Community College alumnus, died Friday, Nov. 25, at UPMC Williamsport.

Get a glimpse of the student-athlete experience at Penn College through the eyes of Gavin L. Baer, of Bainbridge, a member of the golf team who is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in manufacturing engineering technology. "Golf is all mental because if your head's not in it, you're not going to play well," Baer says. "The same thing applies to the lab.