Stephanie Vogelpohl
Mechanical Engineering, 2006

A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Stephanie was undecided about her major and entered TSU as a General Engineering Student. After investigating the options, she selected mechanical engineering as her major at the beginning of her sophomore year.

For her senior design project in mechanical engineering Stephanie worked on the design of a “Metal Casting Education Module.” Sponsored by the Foundry Educational Foundation and the H. H. Harris Fund, the goal of this project was to create a self-contained portable foundry that could be used at summer camps and high schools to demonstrate the metal casting process. Stephanie, and her co-workers Sarah Weigle and Brianna Clemens, designed and built the module, wrote the operating manual, and developed the experiments and demonstrations to be used with it. The module was used at the ASM Materials Camp at Kent State University in the summer of 2006, where it was so well received that several more will be built.

Stephanie was captain of the women’s varsity soccer team and active in Gamma Phi Epsilon sorority. She was president of the TSU Lions Club International and a member of the Metallurgy Society and the ASME Student Branch.

As a student, Stephanie was employed during the summers by the Ottenweller Co. in Fort Wayne, IN, and the Hamilton Country Engineer in Cincinnati. Stephanie is now employed as a metallurgist by Howmet Castings in Wichita Falls, Texas.