Industrial, Computing & Engineering Technologies News Articles

Penn College students placed first and third in the second annual Quad College & University Business Plan Challenge, exiting the Community Theatre League with a total of $15,000 in prize money Tuesday afternoon. Corey M. Weems, a manufacturing engineering technology major from Williamsport, was awarded the $10,000 grand prize, and Matthew L.

A new scholarship fund at Pennsylvania College of Technology will memorialize a past president of the Mechanical Contractors Association of America. The Mechanical Contractors Association of Northwest Pennsylvania has established the "Mechanical Contractors Association of Northwest Pennsylvania, Foster McCarl, Jr.

A faculty member in Pennsylvania College of Technology's drafting and computer aided design department recently passed an eight-hour examination to become a Certified SolidWorks Professional. Jeffrey D. Mather became one of 23 professionals in Pennsylvania to earn Certified SolidWorks Professional status when he took the test during the SolidWorks World 2007 User Conference and Exposition Feb.

Four Pennsylvania College of Technology employees participated in "Autodesk University 2006," with one of them presenting two sessions at the software company's annual conference and exhibition. At the event, held Nov. 28 to Dec. 1 in Las Vegas, Jeffrey D.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's computer aided drafting technology major was recently recertified by the American Design Drafting Association. ADDA, an organization for designers, drafters, architects, illustrators and technical artists, provides curriculum certification to recognize schools whose curriculum in design/drafting meets the standards established and approved by ADDA.

The founder of an Altoona firm with operations in three states will be memorialized with a new scholarship at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

The two-year computer-aided drafting technology major at Pennsylvania College of Technology has been recertified by the American Design Drafting Association, a distinction currently held by only four schools in the commonwealth. "It is programs such as yours that assure competent design and drafting professionals for the future," noted the ADDA letter that accompanied the recertification notice.

Students from the School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies recently toured the U.S. Department of Defense Supply Center: Richmond Army Depot in Mechanicsburg. Manufacturing engineering technology, welding and fabrication engineering technology and electronics engineering technology students came together to see the opportunities that exist with the depot, which employs more than 5,000.

Several faculty and staff members from John Tyler Community College in Midlothian, Va., toured the School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies on Friday, led by Dean Lawrence J. Fryda. The Virginia college is constructing a new building for its industrial arts program and sought Penn College's "exemplary" industrial and engineering facilities as an example.

Pennsylvania College of Technology is taking the lead in a National Science Foundation project aimed at enhancing plastics technology education.