The U.S.-based electrical products business of global industrial manufacturing company Siemens has recognized Pennsylvania College of Technology by donating equipment for student use. Siemens Smart Infrastructure provided 21 125-amperes load centers containing a variety of circuit breakers. The donation benefits students seeking an associate degree in electrical construction or electrical technology.
About two dozen employers made themselves available to job-seeking students in the semester's penultimate Recruitment Day, arranged by Career Services and held Tuesday in the Carl Building Technologies Center. Occupying perpendicular hallways of the BTC, recruiters shared their industry needs with tomorrow makers enrolled in electrical technology, electronics & computer engineering technology; engineering & industrial design technology, and information technology.
An impressive contingent of Pennsylvania College of Technology students experienced the recent National Electrical Contractors Association Annual Convention in Philadelphia. Twenty-five students – accompanied by faculty members Eric L. Anstadt, electrical technology/occupations, and Darrin S. Morse, electrical construction – attended the convention and trade show, billed as the electrical construction industry’s premier event.
Students from four area schools visited Penn College on Friday to explore their vocational future in a PPL-sponsored Pathways to Energy Management Careers program. The utility granted the college $5,000 last winter to introduce high schoolers to opportunities in building automation and the electrical industries.
Pennsylvania College of Technology students eyeing manufacturing-related careers will benefit from a machine entrustment valued at $625,000. The Bihler 4 Slide-NC is a high-tech metal stamping and forming center entrusted to the college for two years by Otto Bihler Maschinenfabrik and Bihler of America Inc.
A Pennsylvania College of Technology student is the recipient of a scholarship from a foundation dedicated to supporting packaging and processing education throughout North America. Marissa R. Rupert, of Danville, is one of six students nationwide to receive a $5,000 PACK EXPO scholarship from the PMMI Foundation of the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.
Employees from several facilities within The Ellwood Group Inc., a family-owned company with more than 25 locations throughout the United States that align with Penn College majors, received hands-on instruction in the Center for Business & Workforce Development's mechatronics technology lab this week.
The Electrical Department hosted a celebration this past week for its students receiving awards as part of Spring Commencement exercises in mid-May.
An electrical technology alumnus, part of a multigenerational group of graduates from Pennsylvania College of Technology and both of its predecessor institutions, paid a visit Thursday to the Lumley Aviation Center – and the Cessna 175C that he and a co-owner gifted to Penn College a decade ago.
The 11th Science Festival for local schoolchildren and their families, held annually at Penn College (but for that 2021 COVID-related pause), brought 682 adventurous participants to the campus Field House on Feb.
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