Polymer Engineering Articles

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.

Fifty-five students from six area high schools visited Penn College on May 16 to attend "The Penn College Plastics Experience." Students from Danville, Warrior Run, Loyalsock, Williamsport Area, Jersey Shore Area high schools and Watsontown Christian Academy attended workshops in injection molding, blow molding, extrusion, polymer synthesis and thermoforming, as well as an industry roundtable wit

The School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies' plastics department and the Workforce Development & Continuing Education department's Plastics Manufacturing Center joined for an All Plastics Day on May 3. During the morning, PMC Advisory Board members were invited to senior-project presentations by six students in the plastics and polymer engineering technology major.

Ryan F. Walls, a plastics and polymer engineering technology major from Mansfield, has been chosen as the Student Government Association's "Student of the Month" for March. An SGA senator from the School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies, Walls was the first sophomore ever to be named "lead student engineer" for the college's Plastics Manufacturing Center.

The Plastics Manufacturing Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology recently began a pilot program to certify employees in Pennsylvania's plastics industry through a special programs contract in cooperation with the Central Pennsylvania Workforce Development Corp., Lewisburg. The contract is part of a Plastics Initiatives Grant authorized by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.

The Ninth Annual Extrusion Seminar and Hands-On Workshop featuring extrusion expert Chris Rauwendaal, of Rauwendaal Extrusion Engineering Inc., Auburn, Calif., and extrusion instructor Kirk M. Cantor, professor of plastics and polymer technology at Pennsylvania College of Technology will be held July 31 to Aug. 2 at Penn College.

Two students enrolled in Pennsylvania College of Technology's plastics and polymer engineering technology major represented the college at the state's Career and Technical Education Week celebration at the Capitol Rotunda in Harrisburg.

New associate-degree students majoring in plastics and polymer technology at Pennsylvania College of Technology are eligible to receive $2,500 per semester up to a total of $5,000 toward the cost of their education, courtesy of the Pennsylvania Plastics Initiative Scholarship Program.

The Plastics Manufacturing Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology has acquired a Datapaq Rotomolding Telemetry System to help its Rotational Molding Center of Excellence advance the rotational molding process industry.