Michael Hoops Email & Phone Number

Brownsburg, IN, US

United States

Shelbyville, Indiana, United States

Managing the day to day operations of the Product Testing and Analytical Labs.

Shelbyville, IN

• Glass Development Engineer (February 2016- Present)
• Ensure that glass chemistries comply with regulatory agencies concerning formulation and production and acting as lead site contact for national and international operations.
• Assist in the implementation of any process changes requested by the Technical Engineering Department or plant manufacturing locations throughout the organization.
• Develop systems to track and monitor critical processes for glass/melt technologies for Plant Production Departments.
• Develop the Bill of Material for insulation inorganic materials both domestic and international.
• Assist with providing operational documentation to the plants for any new equipment/processes.

Crawfordsville, IN

• Instructed students on the proper use of instrumentation and assisted with troubleshooting
• Direct undergraduate research and collaborated with chemists outside of Wabash
• Developed and led lecture material for physical, general, and survey chemistry courses

• Lectured upper-level chemistry courses to a range of student career aspirations
• Established a new research group through grants, planning long-term goals of research group, collaborating, and mentoring undergraduate students

• Utilized spectroscopic characterization (IR/UV-vis) to study matrix isolated photoproducts
• Employed theoretical modeling (DFT) to investigate the structure of reaction intermediates
• Maintained vacuum system hardware

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemistry

Master Of Science (M.S.), Chemistry

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemistry