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Buying or receiving a drone quadcopter this holiday season? Workforce Development & Continuing Education at Pennsylvania College of Technology is offering a timely two-session Drone Quadcopter Technology course in January.

Pennsylvania College of Technology recently launched a program in innovation leadership that is designed to teach systematic steps to stimulate – then implement – effective new ideas, enabling graduates to lead change within their industries, careers, communities and personal lives.

The new president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia traveled with his team to Pennsylvania College of Technology for a special-invitation Community Development Briefing on Oct. 14. Patrick T.

A noncredit Emergency Medical Technician course, beginning in mid-January, will be offered in four locations by Workforce Development & Continuing Education at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

A Salesforce Reporting Fundamentals course, open to the public, will be offered for the first time at Pennsylvania College of Technology in October. The course is aimed at administrators, business users and managers who use Salesforce in their daily work.

The group talks about shale policy and regulation with John Ryder, director of the Bureau of District Oil & Gas Operations for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Visitors, representing commissioners and staff from New Brunswick and the Newfoundland and Labrador Hydraulic Fracturing Panel gather with Thomas B.

Sens. Vogel (center) and Yaw (right) talk with David R. Cotner, dean of industrial, computing and engineering technologies, in the college's welding laboratory Brass candlesticks pique the lawmakers' interest during a stop in the automated manufacturing lab.

Two plastics students at Pennsylvania College of Technology partnered with a global company to use a new technology for a major industry competition. Plastics and polymer engineering technology majors Madison T. Powell, of Linden, and Jacob W.

As an Autodesk Authorized Training Center and Authorized Certification Center, Workforce Development & Continuing Education at Pennsylvania College of Technology is participating in a Certification Day on Oct. 2. Certification exams will be administered from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on various Autodesk products used in architecture, engineering and digital arts fields.

A noncredit 3-D technology course, starting in October and open to the public, will be offered at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The process of 3-D printing – making solid, three-dimensional objects from a digital computer file – will be taught by Craig A. Miller, an instructor of engineering design technology in the college’s School of Industrial, Computing & Engineering Technologies.