Polymer Engineering Articles

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.

Forty participants from nine states, Canada, Mexico and the Philippines recently visited Pennsylvania College of Technology for the 10th Annual Extrusion Seminar and Hands-On Workshop with world-renowned extrusion consultant Chris Rauwendaal and Penn College plastics professor Kirk M. Cantor.

By John S. CendomaCollege Information and Community Relations intern A Pennsylvania College of Technology student organized a competition for Pennsylvania high school students that involves plastics, science, math and remote-control racing. Benjamin J. Campana, a plastics and polymer engineering technology student from Salladasburg, took on the venture as part of his senior project.

Students from six high schools attended "The Penn College Plastics Experience" on May 15. Students from Danville, Elizabethtown, Line Mountain, Loyalsock and Milton high schools and Watsontown Christian Academy attended workshops in the college's plastics laboratories, led by Penn College students.

Roughly 55 participants hit the highway for the 13th annual Road Scholars Tour on Monday. The tour, held May 12-13, offers new and newly tenured Penn State faculty opportunities to learn about the university and Pennsylvania as they travel to several Penn State campuses, businesses and popular historic sites.

The Early Educators presented activities at Cochran Elementary School's "Math and Science Night" on Thursday night, joined by students and faculty from the electronics and plastics programs in the School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies. Photos by Barbara J. Albert, program specialist, early childhood education