Emergency Management & Homeland Security Articles

Six students enrolled in emergency management technology at Pennsylvania College of Technology are honing their skills and helping their communities while serving in internships this summer. Penn College emergency management technology students, including Emily V. Lenhart (right), of New Tripoli, participate in a tornado disaster exercise at the Emergency Operations Center in Williamsport.

The School of Sciences, Humanities & Visual Communications' emergency management technology major is the focus of a new video on Penn College's YouTube channel. The four-year degree prepares graduates for careers ranging from disaster planning specialist to public health preparedness coordinator through a comprehensive understanding of the phases of emergency management.

As role-playing humans and dummy patients cover the ground after a simulated drone attack, students Brittany L. Neupauer and Christopher H. Warney, both of Williamsport, assess the response. As emergency personnel in hazmat gear go through their paces, Brandon A. Schrimp, of Williamsport, puts his observations on the record. Shakeem S.

Richard A. Knecht (background), director of Lycoming County Emergency Management Agency, watches as students Christopher H. Warney, of Williamsport, and Jamie L. Steer, of South Williamsport, take action. Shakeem J. Thomas (right), of Brooklyn, N.Y., joins Warney (left) and Corbin P. Snyder, of Harrisburg, in a busy downtown conference room.

Pennsylvania College of Technology established an agreement that affords graduates of Jamestown Community College the opportunity to enroll at Penn College at the current Pennsylvania in-state rates. Graduates must have earned an associate degree from Jamestown Community College to qualify.

Tommie L. Smith (with clipboard), of Montgomery, an accounting student who works with the Lycoming County Emergency Management Agency, gathers biographical information from Ronald D. Parks, of Jersey Shore, an emergency management technology major simulating contamination with radiation particles.

Visitors from Harrisburg Area Community College get together with their Penn College counterparts outside the Thompson Professional Development Center. Charles R. Niedermyer II, instructor of baking and pastry arts/culinary arts, doubles as laboratory tour guide.

In the additive manufacturing lab, Eric K. Albert, associate professor of machine tool technology/automated manufacturing, shows the group a grip he made for carrying grocery bags. David E. Bjorkman, emergency management/social science instructor, leads participants in a discussion about hazards. Girls inspect the intricacies of an object made in the college’s additive manufacturing lab.

Four new programs in dynamic career fields – mechatronics, emergency management, applied technology and magnetic resonance imaging – will soon complement the list of more than 100 academic majors offered at Pennsylvania College of Technology.