A Pennsylvania College of Technology welding student has sparked national recognition by receiving a prominent industry scholarship. Katya E. Pechacek, a welding and fabrication engineering technology major from Fayetteville, New York, recently received the Air Products Women of Gases & Welding Scholarship.
A capacity crowd of students attends Friday's PDC presentation ... ... by Lars Christensen, a technical marketing manager for Autodesk. Representatives from the Autodesk software company presented "An Introduction to Fusion 360 for Design and Manufacture" among the National Manufacturing Day events hosted by Penn College.
A leaf-shrouded legacy invites passersby to sit a spell. Charitable high school classmates (from left) are Loretta Franzi, Geraldine Barnes, Harold Ingram, Kenneth Johnson and James Walbridge. A plaque commemorates the group's benevolence. Graphic design students Joseph N. Colyer, of Selinsgrove, and Felicia R. Hartzler, of Dover, stop by to greet and chat with the ’49 classmates.
Chef Paul Mach, assistant professor of hospitality management/culinary arts, initiates a sausage-related straw poll. Joe Moore, territory sales representative for Jones Dairy Farm, and Kate Hunter, ’00, a food broker for Peak Sales & Marketing, talk encouragingly with students about the many directions their careers can take.
Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Board of Directors has approved a Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies – the first graduate degree program ever to be offered at the institution, a special mission affiliate of Penn State. Penn College plans to begin offering courses leading to the master’s degree in the fall of 2017, with conferring of degrees to begin in 2022.
What's campus life like at Penn College? Students provide the answers in a brief Guggenheim Productions video added to the institution’s YouTube channel. From apartment-style housing to attractive dining options to countless activities, Penn College is a great home away from home. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XdNjTtNfFA
Graphic design students at Pennsylvania College of Technology used their skills to create suicide awareness posters to mark September as National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month.
Check items off your grocery list at this weekend’s Williamsport Growers Market, and while there, watch senior Penn College culinary arts students compete in a cooking contest. The competition is the work of Chef Michael J.
Andrew A. Smith, an aviation maintenance technician student from Philadelphia, has been chosen as the September “Student of the Month” at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Smith, characterized by his nominator as "an excellent role model to students," is the business coordinator for the Wildcat Events Board and philanthropy chair for the Sigma Pi fraternity at the college. Andrew A.
Renewable energy technologies students on a Tuesday field trip are (from left) Colten R. Temple, Catawissa; Andrew C. Schroker, Blooming Glen; Nicholas A. Daniels, Levittown; Carson J. Klikus, Beach Lake; Chet A. Schwoyer Jr., Williamsport; Matthew M. Bernick, of Lewisberry; and Eric M. Wanczak, of Chambersburg.
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