Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning Articles

Matthew P. Robinson, an HVAC technology major, lost 2.5 pounds of fat and attended eight events offered through Student Activities to accumulate the most points in the BFit/BWell Challenge run by the Fitness Center. For his efforts, Robinson received $25 gift cards to Wegmans, GNC and Dick's Sporting Goods; Cliff energy products and a Penn College back-sack.

The Energy Conservation Subcommittee of the Governance Facilities Committee will host a series ofrelevant discussions in observance of Environmental Awareness Week (April 21-24). Each day's program will take place between noonand 1 p.m. Monday's presentation will be held in CC, Room 164.

Members of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Student Chapter of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers attended a recent Central Pennsylvania District student conference in Harrisburg. Deshawn M. Alexander, Nassau, N.Y.; Robert J. Champe, Washington; Gregory D. Coppola III, Harleysville; Justin E. Gombert, Allentown; Tiffany L. Madara, Paxinos; Lars N.

Mark Shaffer of Hanover, a graduate of South Western High School , has been named Pennsylvania College of Technology's "Student-Athlete of the Week" for Sept. 25-30. Shaffer, a sophomore majoring in heating, ventilation and air conditioning technology, has compiled a 5-1 pitching record with a 1.20 earned run average in 27 innings of work for the college's baseball team.

The benefit to employers of hiring Penn College graduates is noted in a letter to Contractor magazine from Deshawn M. Alexander, an HVAC technology student from Nassau, N.Y.

Two HVAC technology majors at Pennsylvania College of Technology are among this year's eight recipients of scholarships from the National Association of Oil Heating Service Managers. Clayton J. Bretz, of New Bloomfield, and Matthew P. Robinson, of Williamsport, both were honored with $2,000 scholarships at the NAOHSM Awards Banquet at the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center in May.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's HVAC technology department has been approved as a training center for certification under the National Oilheat Research Alliance. The certification program forheating, ventilation and air conditioningtechnicianswho work with oil heat is offered in three levels: Bronze, Silver and Gold.

April is famous for its flowers and showers, but, this year, April brought a live-fire steam boiler to Penn College. The boiler, assembled on a trailer by the manufacturer Weil-McLain, sports unique see-through glass pipes and glass boiler panel.

A new scholarship fund at Pennsylvania College of Technology will memorialize a past president of the Mechanical Contractors Association of America. The Mechanical Contractors Association of Northwest Pennsylvania has established the "Mechanical Contractors Association of Northwest Pennsylvania, Foster McCarl, Jr.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students Ronald J.Button, an HVAC- mechanical systems major from Port Allegany, and Matthew J. Kinneman, an HVAC technology student from Aberdeen, N.J., recently teamed up with technicians from local heating contractors to replace a Watsontown woman's leaking boiler.