Faculty & Staff Articles

State Rep. Bryan Cutler (R-Lancaster), the second-highest ranking member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, visited Penn College on Thursday. Cutler, serving his first term as majority leader, was accompanied on the tour – which took in a number of instructional areas of main campus – by Jacob G. Smeltz, his chief of staff, as well as two members of the college's board of directors: Sen. Gene Yaw, chair, and Rep. Garth Everett.

The corporate generosity that provides Pennsylvania College of Technology students with up-to-date tools befitting a campuswide pool of “tomorrow makers” lives on in an equipment loan from Volvo Construction Equipment, facilitated by Highway Equipment & Supply Co.

Roberta Schwenk, makerspace assistant, shows first-year students the versatile capabilities of a 3D printer. On hand to assist guests are (from left) welding instructor Timothy S. Turnbach; Thomas E. Ask, professor of industrial design; and Jeremiah C. Johnson, makerspace attendant. The face of ingenuity Students work on personal projects in the collaborative space. Schwenk and Barbara J.

Eyewitness News reporter Morgan Parrish talked Tuesday with graphic design alumni and a faculty member involved in a suicide prevention campaign. Parrish interviewed Nicholas L. Stephenson, instructor of graphic design, as well as two of the recent graduates whose work was showcased as part of the awareness project: Emily R. Kahler, of Pittman, and Luke A. Bierly, of Centre Hall.

A debate between the two candidates in Williamsport's mayoral race, sponsored by Penn College's Student Government Association, is scheduled from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.

Hosted by Highway Equipment & Supply Co., the Volvo Construction Equipment/Discovery Gold Rush Excavator tour will stop at Pennsylvania College of Technology from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 5.

PCToday continues its regular feature: welcoming new full-time and regular part-time Pennsylvania College of Technology employees, as reported by the Human Resources Office. Mark T. Heckel, full-time Learning Systems Coordinator, National Sustainable Structures Center, Workforce Development; beginning Sept.

The semester-opening "PC3" continued its fall bounty of events in Week Two, tempting students with a cornucopia of options.

Glass shares his powerful voice with an engaged audience. Men's basketball coach Geoff B. Hensley shares diversity initiatives undertaken in Wildcat athletics. Bywords for change Jeanne M. Kerschner, director of the college's occupational therapy assistant program, relates how knowledge and sensitivity are key to providing health care to a widely varied client population.

The expertise of a Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty member will help information technology professionals worldwide incorporate a vital networking tool.