C. Hank White, director of the Plastics Manufacturing Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology, recently accepted the 2009 Society of Plastics Engineers Gold Pinnacle Award on behalf of SPE's Rotational Molding Division. SPE divisions are technical groups organized around a specific process or application in the plastics industry.
Penn College's first group of plastics students to study abroad is in Belfast, Northern Ireland, through July 5. The seven students – Alan J. Tate, Williamsport; James C. Gorham, Mill Hall; Bradley J. Stroup, Mount Pleasant Mills; Ryan L. Newman, New Columbia; John E. Gudonis, Danville; Christopher E. Kohler, South Williamsport; and Brennan B.
The Rotational Molding Center of Excellence at Pennsylvania College of Technology hosted its first Rotational Molding Workshop June 10-11.
Video production developer Thomas F. Speicher, attendingthis week'sInternational Plastics Showcase in Chicago with Christopher J. Leigh, video production coordinator, was interviewed Wednesday by Plastics News the leading source of information for the industry.
Pennsylvania College of Technology's Plastics Manufacturing Center held its 11th Annual Extrusion Seminar & Hands-On Workshop on the college's campus in early June.
Pennsylvania College of Technology again expanded its short-term study abroad options with the offering of an eight-day trip for the college's plastics and polymer technology students to Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland.
Electronics Students Ben D. Wenger (right) and F. David Nevill show their automated inspection vision system. Pennsylvania College of Technology was among 25 invited exhibitors at the Career and Technical Education celebration Feb. 10-11 in the East Wing Rotunda of the Capitol Building in Harrisburg.
Eric J. Schall, a graduate of Jersey Shore Area High School, and Leonard C. Nicholas, a graduate of Abington High School, have been named Penn College's "co-Student-Athletes of the Week" for Oct. 5-12. Schall is a sophomore plastics and polymer engineering technology major and Nicholas a senior construction management major.
Pennsylvania College of Technology student Bradley J. Stroup was recently named recipient of a $3,000 scholarship from the Society of Plastics Engineers Foundation. Stroup, a junior plastics and polymer engineering technology major from Mount Pleasant Mills, was awarded the foundation's Injection Molding Division Scholarship for 2008-09.
Donations from six companies have allowed Pennsylvania College of Technology to purchase engineering-related instructional equipment through a grant program administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
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