Industrial, Computing & Engineering Technologies News Articles

A Williamsport man who established a scholarship at Pennsylvania College of Technology last year recently added to the fund. Ryan A. English presented a check to Penn College to add to the Marcellus Measurement Scholarship Fund, which is growing toward endowment. Once the fund reaches endowment level, it will become a perennial source of scholarship funds.

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s computer aided drafting technology major recently was recertified by the American Design Drafting Association. ADDA is an organization for designers, drafters, architects, illustrators and technical artists.

Penn College's "Manufacturing Students in Demand" video, which spotlighted employers' interest in students attending the spring Career Fair, was added over the weekend to the Alliance for American Manufacturing's blog.

A 2005 graduate in Penn College's welding and fabrication engineering technology major, a manufacturing specialist at Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America in Georgetown, Ky., continues to inspire girls drawn to "nontraditional" career fields. Jennifer R.

The Pennsylvania College of Technology contingent at the recent National SkillsUSA Conference in Kansas City, Mo., produced four medalists: two second-place finishers and two third-place winners. Earning silver medals were Robert T. Berrier Jr., of Lewistown, a computer aided product design major who competed in Technical Drafting; and Aaron C.

A donation from PPL Corp. will go toward purchase of equipment for Pennsylvania College of Technology’s electrical technology majors. Teri MacBride, PPL’s regional community relations director, recently delivered a $3,000 check to the college’s Institutional Advancement Office to buy 20 new oscilloscopes for the School of Construction and Design Technologies.

McClarin Plastics Inc., a company that has partnered with Pennsylvania College of Technology through its plastics and polymer technology majors and the college’s Plastics Innovation & Resource Center, was honored with a Mentorship Award at Saturday’s Summer Commencement ceremony.

William E. Mack has been named dean of industrial and engineering technologies at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Mack, who had served as assistant dean of the School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies since February 2009, began his new duties on July 1.

Penn College's record of serving employers' needs – from credit offerings in long-established fields to workforce development in the emerging natural gas industry – is featured in the August issue of Business Magazine, a publication of Manufacturer & Business Association.  "To escape a crippling recession and jump-start the engines of industry, the United States must educate and inspire the work f

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Plastics Innovation & Resource Center offered three national seminars and hands-on workshops in June. The PIRC, formerly the Plastics Manufacturing Center, provided seminars in rotational molding, thermoforming and extrusion, all led by world-class instructors. Christopher J.