(Harrisburg) -- A program at one midstate college is helping students gain firsthand experience in electrical engineering and find jobs in the field. Penn State Harrisburg in Dauphin County is now home to the PPL Power Lab, a facility that features software, motors, generators, and other types of equipment to teach students about electrical power operations. The on-campus facility is funded by PPL Corporation, which donated nearly $200,000 in grants and equipment to the school. Associate professor of electrical engineering Peter Idowu says some of the 20 students who've studied in the lab have found jobs with PPL. "Several students actually utilized the equipment, they kind of broke the equipment in, so that particular semester, several of them were offered positions at PPL," he says. "What that has done for them, as well as PPL, they have students that have pretty much hit the ground running." Idowu says Penn State Harrisburg is the only school in the region to offer the type of hands-on training that's found in the PPL Power Lab. He adds most students at other institutions aren't able to use the type of technology in the lab until they head to graduate school.