The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying presented its 2025 Surveying Education Award and the $25,000 grand prize in the four-year program category to the surveying engineering program at Penn State Wilkes-Barre.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre has received the highest award from a national surveying organization, recognizing the outstanding quality of the surveying engineering program at the campus.
Nathan Crotts, fourth from right, and Associate Professor of Engineering Sal Marsico, third from right, stand with a group of students and faculty in Brazil.
Nathan “Nate” Crotts, who earned a bachelor’s of science in surveying engineering at Penn State Wilkes-Barre in May, and Salvatore Marsico, associate professor of engineering at the campus, visited the University of Campinas in Brazil to further their research on using artificial intelligence and large language models to map roadway assets at the end of the spring semester.
Bailey Hayes (left) and Jonathan Kelly (right) are among the 88 percent of students at Penn State Wilkes-Barre who have received financial assistance to help them pursue a degree.