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To engineering students, Jim Lennox is a familiar name and face on campus. Having joined Wilkes in 1985, Lennox is the director of instrumentation in the College of Science and Engineering, meaning he installs and repairs electronic equipment. When he’s not doing that, you can find in the machine shop…

The team from Pottsville Area High School beat out nine other schools during the Engineering Olympics at Wilkes University on April 12.  The event, sponsored by the Wilkes University Chapter of IEEE, awarded the winning team $10,000 in scholarships to attend Wilkes. The event was held in the Arnaud C.…

The Mark Engineering Center at Wilkes University was awarded the 2019 Diamond Award for Engineering Excellence from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Pennsylvania. The award was granted in the building and technology systems category. Borton-Lawson Engineering, Inc. was the engineering firm for the renovation. A formal ceremony was…

In honor of Engineering Week 2019, News@Wilkes looks at one of the senior projects tackled by engineering students. Watch out for the traffic in the hallway near Room 248 in Stark Learning Center. It’s where a group of senior mechanical engineering students are test driving their senior project. The team,…

Wilkes University President Patrick F. Leahy welcomed faculty and staff back to campus with a spring convocation address that celebrated the successes of 2018 and outlined goals for 2019. Leahy delivered remarks on Jan. 17 at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts. He celebrated the many milestones…

The state-of-the-art engineering facility in Stark Learning Center is named in honor of local business leaders Randy and Robin Mark Wilkes University’s newest facility, the Mark Engineering Center, officially opened with a dedication ceremony on Sept. 14. The dedication is the culmination of a 16-month,    $8 million renovation to the…