Welding & Metal Fabrication Articles

James E. Allshouse, who plans to graduate in May with a bachelor's degree in welding and fabrication engineering technology, has been chosen as October's Student of the Month by the Student Government Association at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

Donald O. Praster has been appointed dean of industrial and engineering technologies at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Praster, who joined Penn College in 1976, had been serving as interim dean of the School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies since 2007.

The Children's Learning Center Bear Bunch enjoyed a visit to the welding lab, arranged and led by Kerri Ann Zacker. Zacker visited the Bears room Wednesday morning to show her tools of the welding trade and talk about items that are welded. Then she led the Bears including daughter Adeline to the classroom where she is a student in the welding technology major. David R.

The second episode of the "degrees that work." television series, a co-production of Pennsylvania College of Technology and WVIA-TV, is set to premiere on the public-television station at 7:30 p.m. on June 29.

The ESAB Welding and Cutting Solutions Tour Expo Truck visited Penn College's Avco-Lycoming Metal Trades Center parking lot on Thursday, allowing the campus community to see the latest in welding and cutting technology tools and solutions provided by ESAB, and to meet local ESAB employees.

Twenty Penn College students and 15 students from area secondary schools competed at a Feb. 22 welding contest in the college's Avco-Lycoming Metal Trades Center. The contest, conducted by the Central Pennsylvania Section of the American Welding Society, was judged by Adam Steppe, of High Steel Industries, and Niles Oehrli, from Moody International.

Pennsylvania College of Technology has been named a project team member for a $4.9 million National Science Foundation program establishing a National Center of Excellence in Welding Education and Training.

Weeks of preparation and tireless teamwork will culminate in this weekend's 11th annual Susquehanna 500 Mini-Indy competition, in which Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty/staff and students and a group of visitors from Mexico will continue their historic participation on behalf of the American Red Cross.

Faculty members in the welding technology department at Pennsylvania College of Technology have established a scholarship fund to support their students. Donald O. Praster, interim dean of industrial and engineering technologies, said the Penn College Welding Faculty Scholarship will generate an annual award of $500.

A welding instructor from the Monroe Career & Technical Institute in Bartonsville was so impressed by a visit last year to Pennsylvania College of Technology that he spearheaded the effort to establish a scholarship fund to encourage his students to attend the college.