Mechatronics grad sets his sights on prevention

Published 05.31.2019

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... and interviews Troup during her May visit.Reiner talks with Witmer ...

Anne Reiner of the On the Pulse local news site visited campus recently to interview Ryan M. Witmer, a mechatronics technology student from Lancaster County. 

Reiner watched Witmer employ various diagnostic tools to monitor the performance of Penn College’s roll-fed thermoformer and discussed with him the unique major, which combines electrical, mechanical and computer engineering into one field. Reiner also explored mechatronics with one of Witmer’s teachers: Howard W. Troup, instructor of automated manufacturing and machining.

"Everything that I learned in high school was, 'I needed to fix it,'" says Witmer, who graduated with high honors on May 17. "Here, I can build it ... I can fix it ... I can, you know, prevent it from being broken in the first place." The new alumnus is employed as an assembly technician for Astro Machine Works in Ephrata.