Automated Manufacturing & Machining Articles

Penn College was the site recently of a Technology Leadership Workshop, presented free to educators through Siemens Industry Inc.'s Siemens Cooperates With Education program. The event attracted 15 educators from such local institutions as Bucknell University and Williamsport Area School District, as well as from colleges and universities in North Dakota, Michigan and Ohio.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students recently completed a collaborative project that fused the skills of students in the plastics and polymer engineering technology and manufacturing engineering technology majors.

Two Pennsylvania College of Technology representatives were among medalists at SkillsUSA's 46th annual National Leadership and Skills Conference held June 21-25 in Kansas City, Mo. The championships were held in H.

Pennsylvania College of Technology manufacturing engineering technology students took on one of modern humanity's perpetual challenges: to build a better mousetrap. Working in groups, the students designed humane mousetraps that could be produced on the college's rapid prototyping machine, also called a three-dimensional printer.

Four Pennsylvania College of Technology students accepted Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships at a National Institute of Standards and Technology laboratory. Students David M. Blumenfeld, of Lincroft, N.J.; Matthew C.

Newswatch 16 reporter Jim Hamill interviewed Keith H. English, instructor of machine tool technology/automated manufacturing at Penn College, for a story that aired Thursday evening about students' restoration of the clock at Williamsport's historic Trinity Episcopal Church.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's "degrees that work." career-awareness television series received a Bronze Telly Award for a 2009 episode profiling the advanced manufacturing career field. The series, a co-production of Penn College and WVIA-TV, highlights careers identified by state and federal labor officials as important for future employment growth.

The chimes have returned at Trinity Episcopal Church in Williamsport where, in December, Jim Zerfing, the church clock's longtime caretaker, and students from Pennsylvania College of Technology climbed 100 feet up the clock tower's narrow stairs to replace parts that had fallen into disrepair. The students are enrolled in majors in the automated manufacturing and machining department.

Manufacturing engineering technology students David Blumenfeld and Matthew Cox presented the research they performed during a summer fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland. Cox, of Selinsgrove, presented his research into 3-D printing, and Blumenfeld, of Lincroft, N.J.,presented research into creation and measurement of a five-axis part.

A Bucks County company is reaffirming its long-standing relationship with Pennsylvania College of Technology through a revised scholarship agreement. Bracalente Manufacturing Co. Inc. will continue to provide an annual award of $1,000 to a Penn College student through the Bracalente Manufacturing Scholarship, which was established in 1996.