Community and Workforce Programs

Nationally accredited plastics technology institution? Check. Face-to-face instruction by industry experts? Check. Hands-on experience in a state-of-the-art plastics laboratory? Check. Skills that can be immediately applied in the workplace? Check. From injection molding principles to DOE to part design principles, your processes can be enhanced through seminars offered by the Plastics Training Academy at Penn State Behrend.

Our office often serves as the liaison between industry and academia, bringing these two forces together to meet business and community needs through the college’s Open Lab model of learning and discovery. In the college’s Open Lab environment, students and faculty members work side by side with business and industry partners to explore ideas, advance technologies, and refine products and services. The goal is to reduce barriers between industry and academia, research and practice, and learning and doing, providing students with valuable hands-on learning experiences and delivering research, development and design solutions to business and industry.