Welding Articles

Backed by an impressive commemoration of the donors who made the facility possible, Keating talks with Rhoades. Recording some welding in "Pipe Alley" Allen adds faculty insight to the interviews. A WNEP reporter visited Penn College's Lycoming Engines Metal Trades Center this week, preparing a piece about the expanded (and recently dedicated) welding lab.

Penn College's expanded and enhanced welding lab, unveiled in dedication ceremonies on Feb. 6, is featured in a new video on the college's YouTube channel. At 55,000-plus square feet, it is believed to be the largest such facility in higher education nationwide.

An expanded and enhanced welding lab – at 55,000-plus square feet, believed to be the largest such facility in higher education nationwide – was dedicated on Feb. 6 at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The Welding Expansion Project, funded in part by a $2 million grant from the U.S.

Four Pennsylvania College of Technology students are among 14 nationwide to receive scholarships from a foundation dedicated to promoting skilled manufacturing careers.

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Board of Directors has approved faculty emeritus status for Robert M. Vaughn, who taught welding at the institution for nearly four decades. Vaughn retired in August after 39 years of service to Penn College and its immediate predecessor, Williamsport Area Community College.

The group intently listens to President Gilmour in the college's welding addition. From left are Reed; Turzai; Borowicz; Owlett's wife, Lauren; and Owlett. David R. Cotner (second from right), dean of industrial, computing and engineering technologies, takes the group by the expanded facility's impressive new plasma equipment. John M.

Penn College's second annual PA Build My Future event, an interactive academic and industry showcase on Thursday, provided more than 900 high-school students with an opportunity to experience the full range of possibilities in the construction and design field.

​WNEP’s Chris Keating visited campus for Thursday's PA Build My Future, filing a report on the second annual introduction of secondary students to the wide-open world of construction and design careers.

Melissa Turlip, program manager with Commonwealth Charitable Management, invites attendees to explore the six Mobile Oilfield Learning Unit stations (at right), offering 24 hands-on activities on energy and the technologies and sciences involved with the oil and gas industry. The traveling exhibit, from the Oilfield Energy Center, is available for secondary school visits.

Three students who have performed together as a CRU worship team will provide musical entertainment during this week's First Friday in downtown Williamsport. The trio – Graham E. Burnett (percussion), industrial design, Pompton Lakes, New Jersey; Nathaniel H. Lyon (saxophone/percussion), welding and fabrication engineering technology, Fredericksburg; and Elias D.