Welding Articles

Three Pennsylvania College of Technology students were awarded national scholarships for the 2009-10 academic year from the American Welding Society Foundation. Bradley W.

One of the world's most recognizable names in agricultural and heavy construction equipment is providing scholarship opportunities for welding students at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

Penn College's Children's Learning Center "Bunnies" toured the welding laboratory in the School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies on Wednesday, guided by a student whose daughter is in the group. Aaron P. Gimbel, a welding and fabrication engineering technology major from Tamaqua, showed the children the tools and equipment he uses in his courses. Leah R.

Penn College's Outreach for K-12 Office hosted a Secondary and Postsecondary Welding Educators Summit Monday to discuss a variety of issues in welding education in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania College of Technology will host a Secondary and Postsecondary Welding Educators Summit on April 6 to discuss a variety of issues in welding education in Pennsylvania. The event, scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Pennsylvania College of Technology received a grant to continue as a project-team member in establishing the National Center of Excellence in Welding Education and Training (Weld-Ed). Penn College is one of eight regional partners for the National Science Foundation project, which began in 2007 and is led by Lorain County (Ohio) Community College.

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.