CQU’s Director of the Engineering Co-op Program and Industry Liaison for engineering students Ian Devenish toured Pennsylvania College of Technology’s (Penn College) School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies last week.

Penn College offers a semester-long study abroad opportunity to students at CQU, and Mr Devenish is exploring the prospects of placing students at Penn, both to study and to gain industrial work experience.

CQU's interest in studies at Penn College includes not only a full semester of traditional classes and laboratory activities, but also bringing students there during the summer for a special series of laboratory projects using Penn College's extensive laboratory equipment.

Mr Devenish was also interested in fostering both semester-long and short-term, 2-week visits to CQU and its surrounding industry and cultural sites by Penn College students.

Photo: Ian Devenish, Director of the Engineering Co-op Program and Industrial Liaison for Central Queensland University tours a computer lab.