Welding & Metal Fabrication Articles

For the third consecutive year, Pennsylvania College of Technology is the recipient of a $100,000 grant from Johnson Controls that aims to support students seeking in-demand careers.

A longtime partner of Pennsylvania College of Technology is providing a new self-contained automated welding system to the institution. Miller Welding Automation, a business unit of Miller Electric Mfg. LLC, has entrusted a PerformArc 350S and related software to the welding program for three years.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology student is one of a dozen nationwide to receive a scholarship awarded by ESAB Corp. and the American Welding Society Foundation. Clayton J. Fegley, of McClure, earned the $5,000 scholarship through ESAB’s Future Fabricators Program.

As part of a partnership that dates to the excavation of Lamade Stadium in 1959, the Little League Baseball World Series yields hands-on learning activities for Penn College students. In just the series' first four days, photographers captured the activities of paramedic, baking & culinary, and welding students.

WBRE-TV’s Sydney Kostus arrived on campus before sunrise Tuesday morning to do live interviews with Penn College faculty and staff who played key roles with the globe project for Little League International.

WNEP-TV’s Mackenzie Aucker experienced the 7-foot-high stainless steel globe that Pennsylvania College of Technology students and faculty fabricated for Little League International. Featured recently on Penn College News, the painstaking project involved over 70 welding students and resulted in an eye-catching sculpture for the Little League World Series complex in South Williamsport.

Watch the journey of a new sculpture installed recently at the Little League International Complex in South Williamsport. The sculpture was devised by Little League staff, who envisioned a huge globe that could serve as a photo prop for the tens of thousands of visitors who will make their way to the complex during the upcoming Little League Baseball World Series. To make it happen, they turned to the experts at Penn College.

Pennsylvania College of Technology welding students are the spark behind an eye-catching addition to the Little League Baseball World Series complex in South Williamsport: a roughly 7-foot-tall stainless steel globe structure featuring metal cutouts shaped to represent the continents. “This is probably one of the most unique projects we’ve done," said Michael R. Allen, instructor and co-department head of welding.

Pennsylvania College of Technology competitors earned gold medals in three competitions at the 2025 SkillsUSA Championships, held June 25-26 in Atlanta. More than 6,800 students – all champions at the state level – competed in 114 categories. The college brought home gold in TeamWorks, Technical Drafting and Welding Fabrication.

Students from Pennsylvania College of Technology’s School of Engineering Technologies top the nation in scholarships received from a foundation dedicated to strengthening the talent pipeline for manufacturing industries. Penn College students earned 13 of the 52 scholarships awarded for the Fall 2025 semester by SparkForce, the charitable foundation of the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association.