Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Board of Directors has approved a $161.8 million total budget calling for a 2.81 percent increase in tuition in 2018-19, marking four consecutive years of increases below 3 percent.

Brett A. Reasner, dean of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s School of Transportation & Natural Resources Technologies, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Associated Equipment Distributors Foundation. The foundation also has tapped the expertise of Justin W. Beishline, an assistant dean of the school, in naming him to its Technical Training Committee.

Marking a decade of intensive staff development for rotational-molding professionals, Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Plastics Innovation & Resource Center recently hosted more than two dozen employees in another of its renowned industry conferences.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students vying for gold at the SkillsUSA National Championships is common. An all-female welding team representing the school at the prestigious competition is not. Thanks to three talented female welding and fabrication engineering technology students, it may be in the future. The trio aim to be trendsetters at the college and nationally.

Fourteen of this fall’s first-year students in construction and design majors at Pennsylvania College of Technology have been selected as Built Environment Scholars in a program that rewards academic talent in science, technology, engineering and mathematics-related fields.

Mother Nature hampered the quest of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Baja SAE team, but she couldn’t prevent a dynamic performance by the students at the recent Society of Automotive Engineers international competition in Pittsburg, Kansas.