Industrial, Computing & Engineering Technologies News Articles

With the help of Jacob M. Endy, of Pottstown, a sophomore in mechatronics engineering technology, Cipriani measures rotation speed. Seth J. Balkey, of State College, a junior in applied technology studies, is among students giving Cipriani and Ramsay a tour of the mechatronics lab. The guests share a laugh with David M.

Penn College's renowned Plastics Innovation & Resource Center, which incorporates hands-on learning across the industry's varied production processes, is featured in the online Keystone Edge magazine. The article by news editor Elise Vider – headlined "At Penn College, Plastics Provide a Path to Success" – includes a Q&A with Shannon Munro, vice president for workforce development.

More than 60 students and faculty from North Penn High School, Williamsport Area High School and Columbia-Montour Area Vocational-Technical School visited Penn College during a recent STEM Day program.  The Nov. 8 "Changing the World With STEM" observance included alumni speaker Derek F.

Nathaniel J. Correll, a building automation technology major from Nazareth, has been chosen as the October “Student of the Month” at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

A sandbox recently installed at Pennsylvania College of Technology is for anything but play. Thanks to the ingenuity of faculty and staff from the School of Industrial, Computing & Engineering Technologies, the 250 pounds of sand will serve as an educational tool for hundreds of students in several majors.

Robots will duel for supremacy at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The Student Wildcats of Robotic Design club is hosting “Fall 2017 S.W.O.R.D Fights,” beginning at 8 a.m. on Nov. 18 in the college’s Field House. The event requires participants to design, fabricate and test robots before “fighting” in either 1-pound or 3-pound weight categories.

Co-host Bradley M. Kozuch gives a "two-thumbs-up" review to Saturday's proceedings ... ... in which three distinct groups of gamers indulged their singular passion in the service of medical care for children. The Game Development Club hosted a 24-hour, live-stream broadcast from the Bush Campus Center TV Lounge on Saturday to raise money for charity through the Extra Life organization.

As anyone on either side of the Halloween give-and-take knows, the goodies can last for days (if not months!) after the trick-or-treat bags are emptied. So it is with PCToday's campuswide correspondents, who provided some sweet souvenirs to carry over into November. On Tuesday, two sections of Technical Drawing & Detailing (CCD 103/104) held their fourth annual Virtual Pumpkin Carving Contest.

Umbrellas were the most coveted accessory, but nowhere near as essential as the information that visitors to Pennsylvania College of Technology's Fall Open House carried home.

Wail to the chief! A perennial good sport for student-focused activities, college President Davie Jane Gilmour elicits kindly shudders during a midterm "makeup" exam. Arms linked in solidarity, an entourage recoils at a jump scare. Benevolent bloodletting is the order of the night, as an all-in-fun trail of terrors snakes through the welding lab.