School of Engineering Technologies News Articles

Several members of the Horticulture Club worked with their faculty adviser and a streets and parks employee from the city's Department of Public Works (a Penn College graduate) to refresh a rain garden along Pine Street in downtown Williamsport.

A 2022 graduate of Penn College's two-year concrete science technology major returned to campus Tuesday with four other representatives of this year's PACA Emerging Leaders Academy cohort, meeting with current students about the vast variety of available careers. Madison L. Kistler, a quality control technician at New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co. Inc., is among 19 members of the Pennsylvania Aggregates and Concrete Association's 2023 PELA class.

Diesel students from Brad R. Conklin's Basic Electricity and Heavy Duty Brake Systems courses went to Isuzu Commercial Truck of America Inc. in Pittston on Thursday to observe a mock technician competition. Comprised of the top Isuzu technicians in the United States, the team will travel to Japan next month to compete against entries from 33 other countries to determine the best Isuzu technician team in the world.

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.

In a "rain or shine" endeavor that had plenty of both, members of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Horticulture Technicians’ Association were among the industrious partners for Saturday's "Reimagine Sustainability" activity in Way's Garden. Conveniently located near main campus, the civic sanctuary at West Fourth and Maynard streets has frequently been improved by college students and faculty – before, during and after its 2013 centennial.

A member of Penn College's aviation faculty is pictured in the October issue of AOPA Pilot magazine, a publication of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. An article by Emma Quedzuweit, assistant editor, details a "painstaking labor of love" by volunteers at the Golden Age Air Museum in Bethel – volunteers that include Michael Damiani, an instructor at the college's Lumley Aviation Center.

European research into self-monitoring and self-healing concrete was shared Wednesday evening with Penn College students in civil engineering and a variety of construction-related majors. The hourlong seminar was delivered by Andrzej Cwirzen, head of the Building Materials Research Group at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden.

A day and a half of mentorship and inspiration, as well as a Thursday night banquet to honor the milestone, commemorated the 30th anniversary of Penn College's first bachelor's-degree major: construction management.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology student was among only seven selected worldwide to receive a Bill Sanderson Aviation Maintenance Technology Scholarship from Helicopter Association International's Technical Working Group. Alicia Martinez, of Allentown, a senior in the college's four-year aviation maintenance technology major, was awarded a first-place scholarship that provides a tuition waiver for a helicopter manufacturer training school and a stipend to offset expenses.

Motor Truck Thermo King, a Corporate Tomorrow Maker at Pennsylvania College of Technology, has donated a new Precedent S-750i trailer refrigeration unit that greatly enhances career-building students’ exposure to the latest equipment. “The S-750i refrigeration unit has been available less than one year, and our students will now be able to be better prepared to enter the industry with confidence,” said Brad R. Conklin, instructor of diesel equipment technology.