Facilities
Woodlands Bank Innovation Lab
Collaborate with classmates across all majors in our technology centric innovation lab where creative ideas run free.
Innovation Leadership
Competency Credential
About this program
With a competency credential in Innovation Leadership, you’ll harness a proven system for idea generation. The need for innovation transcends industry and has the power to infuse new energy into old ways of doing things. This competency credential offers the core courses in the innovation leadership sequence and provides the theory, concepts, and hands-on activities that foster and develop the skills and abilities that support the creative process. And the best part - the work to achieve your Black Belt is embedded within the final course.
Next steps...
You're on your way to becoming a tomorrow maker.
Careers
Become a changer leader in your industry with skills to:
- Lead product/process development teams
- Prototype models quickly and inexpensively
- Apply the patent process to new ideas
- Communicate about the innovation process and results
Courses
At Penn College, we believe your educational experience should go beyond specialized skills. Real-world ready means taking a broader approach that builds communication skills, inspires collaboration, and encourages exploration of arts, history, and science.
Perspectives are points of view, offering a variety of ways of understanding, interacting, and influencing the world. Students identify, explain, and utilize the approaches used by academics and professionals to study, analyze, or understand problems, and offer solutions.
Foundations are the practical, intellectual, and social skills: communication, collaboration, critical and ethical thinking, quantitative thinking, and technological literacy that are crucial to every student at every stage of education and at every stage of life.
Student Experience
“Innovation is a new way of thinking. It really took me out of my original thinking box. It threw the box away and made me think in completely different way.”
Stevie Petrison
Tour Schedule
Seeing is believing.
Think Penn College might be a good fit for you? Make plans to visit and discover what hands-on learning is all about.
Mar 1
Undergraduate Open House
Saturday, March 19 AM - 3 PM
Apr 6
Undergraduate Open House
Sunday, April 69 AM - 3 PM
Industry Partners
Work with experts to become an expert
Penn College's strong partnerships impact every step of your journey – from your first day in the classroom and labs, to career placement (oftentimes before graduation) and beyond.
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Student Life
Lead and put your skills to the test
Penn College Business Club
Network with business leaders and work with like-minded students as you explore the business profession.
Student Organizations at Penn College
Your college experience is about more than the classroom. Join one of 65+ clubs and organizations, or create your own.
Penn College News
10.17.2024
Construction company to host 'pop-up' Monday
A. Pickett Construction, Inc. has scheduled a Pop-Up Employer Information Table for Monday, Oct. 21, in the Carl Building Technologies Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The company is recruiting carpenter helpers, carpenters, assistant HVAC technicians, assistant business administrators, assistant project managers and assistant estimators. Interested students should bring their resumes.
08.09.2024
PFEW gets down to business at Penn College
Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week held its fourth and final summer session at Pennsylvania College of Technology July 28 to Aug. 2. More than 300 young high school juniors and seniors attended the engaging event, the signature program of the Foundation for Free Enterprise Education. The youth leadership gathering provides a hands-on, practical way for students to immerse themselves in the world of business and gain a sense of their entrepreneurial talents.
08.01.2024
Baumgardner receives accreditation council certification
A Pennsylvania College of Technology business faculty member was recognized with a pair of new credentials at a recent Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs conference. Chip D. Baumgardner, associate professor of business administration/management, was presented certificates acknowledging his status as an ACBSP certified mentor and as an ACBSP certified consultant.
More Information
- A competency credential must be completed within three years of enrollment in the credential.
- Non-traditional credit such as credit-by-exam, work/life experience, and transfer credit are not available for this credential.
- Students must earn a grade of ‘C’ or better in each course to merit the credential.
- In order to receive the Black Belt certification, the student must successfully complete all module assignments in the three courses.
Alternative Credit refers to academic credits earned through means other than traditional college course completion, including: credit by exam, articulation, proof of competency gained in high school, work/life experience, and advanced placement.
Visit the Alternative Credit Options page in our Course Catalog for general requirements and procedures and for information on credit through Advanced Placement.
