Faculty & Staff Articles

Teachers became students May 9-10, when Penn College’s welding faculty hosted its second Welding Teacher Training program, a seminar that provided educators in high schools and career and technical education centers with an opportunity to immerse in hands-on learning in the college’s Lycoming Engines Metal Trades Center.

Awards were presented to noteworthy Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty and staff on May 11, among a number of long-established milestones as the 2022-23 academic year comes to a close. President Michael J. Reed celebrated the honorees during an all-college meeting, held in the Klump Academic Center Auditorium and livestreamed.

A dedicated group of Pennsylvania College of Technology students ushered in a new era of competition with a strong showing recently at Baja SAE Oshkosh in Wisconsin.

The Community Arts Center hosted its 30th anniversary celebration Saturday evening, May 6, kicking off a yearlong observance of the notable milestone.

The final installment of Penn College's 2022-23 Employee Engagement Series session was recently held at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center.

Twenty Pennsylvania College of Technology employees received Blue Belts in Innovation Engineering, certification from the Innovation Engineering Institute that is recognized throughout industry, during a May 4 ceremony in the Thompson Professional Development Center.

The institution’s earliest tinkerers and innovators returned to campus recently for the 20th annual Williamsport Technical Institute Reunion.

Fifteen Student Leadership & Involvement Awards – as well as a scholarship or three – were recently presented in the Thompson Professional Development Center. The program, a heartwarming tradition of the Office of Student Engagement, honors campus leaders, their mentors among Penn College's faculty and staff, and the student organizations that have left their mark on yet another academic year.

More than 500 students enrolled in Penn College Dual Enrollment made visits to campus during the spring semester, immersing in a wide variety of majors, courtesy of college faculty.

Culinary arts technology grad and current business administration student Melyce E. Kenyon, owner and operator of MK Bubble Drinks, visited with students in the Careers in Hospitality class, taught by Chef Mary G. Trometter, assistant professor of hospitality management/culinary arts.