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
Thirteen representatives from seven community colleges around Pennsylvania, as well as representatives from the state Department of Education and the State System of Higher Education, visited campus on Oct. 4 to examine the feasibility of making an articulation agreement between them and Penn College's plastics and polymer degree programs.
Grant funding has doubled for a successful pilot program to certify employees in Pennsylvania's plastics industry, allowing Pennsylvania College of Technology's Plastics Manufacturing Center, which administers the program through a special contract agreement with the Central Pennsylvania Workforce Development Corp., to expand the number of companies and employees participating.
The ninth annual Extrusion Seminar and Hands-On Workshop, hosted by Pennsylvania College of Technology's Plastics Manufacturing Center, was held on the college's main campus July 31-Aug. 2, attracting participants from eight states and Canadian provinces. The seminar was led by Chris Rauwendaal, of Rauwendaal Extrusion Engineering in Auburn, Calif., and Kirk M.
A student at Pennsylvania College of Technology has been chosen as a materials research engineer intern for Summer 2007 at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Matthew L. Gross, of Dover, is the only college student in America to be hired for the position "materials intern 1," which is available to students between their sophomore and junior years.
The Society of Plastics Engineers honored its student chapter at Pennsylvania College of Technology during the society's Annual Technical Conference, held May 6-10 in Cincinnati. The student organization earned a 2007 Outstanding Student Chapter Award, which the society bestows upon student chapters whose programs, activities and levels of participation are especially noteworthy.
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