School of Transportation & Natural Resources Technologies News Articles

Chief Automotive Technologies' Jim Wrigley conducts a session in a College Avenue Labs classroom. Tips on paintless auto-body repair Metalworking is among the skills honed in the collision repair lab. Penn College instructor Roy H. Klinger schools participants on forming sheet-metal panels.

The editor of Mopar Muscle and Mopar Now magazines visited Penn College this past week, meeting with faculty and touring automotive and collision repair laboratories.

Fawns shun the sun in "natural" surroundings. Staking out a rare commodity on these hot and humid days – a patch of shade – these equally precious fawns visited Penn College's Schneebeli Earth Science Center on Thursday.

One of the country's highest honors for wildfire prevention − named for one of its most recognizable public figures − has been presented to Paul M. Reier, a 34-year veteran of the Virginia Department of Forestry and a 1977 forest technology graduate of Pennsylvania College of Technology predecessor Williamsport Area Community College.

Bookended by two aircraft from the college's instructional fleet – a Grumman A-6 Intruder and a Boeing 727 – aviation instructor Michael R. Robison (back to camera) conducts a tour. Thomas D. Inman, associate professor of aviation, demonstrates a student-built autopilot simulator. Campus guests seize the moment in the cockpit of the 727. Plastics technology professor Kirk M.

As they have for the past four years, horticulture faculty and staff from Penn College's School of Natural Resources Management served as judges for state FFA Activities Week.

The iconic black and yellow of CAT equipment lends familiarity to instructor training. Caterpillar's Dan Johnson works with several secondary instructors at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center near Allenwood.

A Kylertown man who comes from a family with three generations of alumni has donated a Cessna 175C airplane to Pennsylvania College of Technology. Gary Gable, who graduated from Penn College forerunner Williamsport Area Community College with a certificate in electrical technology in 1974, donated the plane with co-owner Charles Michaelis.

Ryan W. Peck, instructor of diesel equipment technology, prepares his guests for operation of heavy construction equipment. Two muddy SMART girls return from the heavy equipment operations site for a lunch break. Forestry professor Dennis F. Ringling shows how to measure woodland acreage.

Students tour a facility of PPG, a well-known supplier to the collision repair paint lab back on Penn College's main campus ... ... and pause for a group photo while seeing the sights in Milan. Ian C. Squier-Nauman test-drives a Ferrari.