Manufacturing Engineer
Marathon Electric Manufacturing Corp. Lebanon, Missouri.
Summer project engineer in the Marathon Electric die casting plant
in Lebanon, Missouri. Conducted process documentation on a new die cast
start up, coordinated equipment rebuilds and wrote process specifications on
blast cleaning and furnace startup and shut down procedures. Established
parameters and installation of a preventive maintenance program in shaft and
bracket machining.
Voigt, R.C., Tu, C.H., Rosmait, R.L., Development of As-Cast-Steel,
Proceedings of the Steel Founders Society of America Technical and Operating
Conference. November 1990.
Voigt, R.C., Tu, C.H., Rosmait, R.L., Influence of Composition on Properties of
As-Cast Steel, Proceedings of the Steel Founders Society of America
Technical and Operating Conference. November 1991.
Voigt, R.C., Tu, C.H., Rosmait, R.L., Structure/Property/Processing
Relationship for As-Cast Steel, Proceedings of the Steel Founders Society of
America Technical and Operating Conference. November 1992.
Hamaker, J.W. , Rosmait, R.L., New Ways of Doing Business (NWODB) Cost
Quantification Analysis, Proceedings of the 1993 National Conference of the
Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis. June 1993.
Professional Societies:
Member of the American Foundrymen's Society (AFS).
Honors/Awards:
2002 NASA/ASEE Faculty Fellowship to the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama. 1997/1998 one year appointment to the Metallurgy Research and Development Labs of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama. 1996 NASA/ASEE Faculty Fellowship to the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama. 1995 NASA/ASEE Faculty Fellowship to the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama. 1994 Outstanding Teaching Faculty for Pittsburg State University. Awarded by the PSU student government association and alumni association. 1992 NASA/ASEE Faculty Fellowship to the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama. Research title: New Ways of Doing Business (NWODB) Cost Quantification Analysis. 1991 NASA/ASEE Faculty Fellowship to the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama. Research title: Space System Production Cost Benefits from New Technologies in Management and Manufacturing. Three time recipient of the FEF Clyde A. Sanders doctoral scholarship for Foundry Educational Foundation program professors Recipient of the George J. Barker Memorial Scholarship for graduate study from the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Foundrymen's Society. Two time recipient of the H. H. Harris Foundation Foundry and Metallurgy Scholarship.
Coordinated/Conducted the following Seminars/Workshops
3/88 Analysis of Casting Defects
3/89 Pattern Tooling Update
3/90 Core and Mold Technology Update
2/91 Furnace Refractory Update
4/92 Green Sand Processing & Control
3/93 Control and Processing of Gray & Ductile Iron
4/94 Practical sand control and modern testing practices
Funded Research Projects:
One Year project/Continuation Grant on New Ways of Doing Business (NWODB)
Cost Quantification Analysis. Funded 1992 by the Engineering Cost Group of
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL.
Three year project for the development of As-Cast Steel. Funded by the Steel
Founders Society of America, Des Plaines, IL.
Additional duties:
Faculty advisor to the American Foundrymen's Society (AFS) Student Chapter.Planned/organized/raised funding to attend the national AFS Casting Congress
in Seattle, Washington, April 1997
Planned/organized/raised funding to attend the national AFS Cast Expo & Congress
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April 1996
Planned/organized/raised funding to attend the national AFS Casting Congress
in Kansas City, Missouri May 1995
Planned/organized/raised funding to attend the national AFS Casting Congress
in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada May 1994
Planned/organized/raised funding to attend the national AFS Cast Expo &
Congress in Chicago, Illinois, May 1993
Planned/organized/raised funding to attend the national AFS Casting Congress
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 1992
Planned/organized/raised funding to attend the national AFS Casting Congress
in Birmingham, Alabama, May 1991
Planned/organized/raised funding to attend the national AFS Casting Congress
in Detroit, Michigan, May 1990
Planned/organized/raised funding to attend the national AFS Casting Congress
in San Antonio, Texas, April 1989.
Directed and produced a Manufacturing Engineering promotional video.
Courses Taught While at Pittsburg State University:
1. Principles of Metal Casting
2. Metal Casting Laboratory
3. Materials In Industry
4. Fabrication Processes
5. Basic Metals Processing
6. Introduction to Metallurgy
7. Manufacturing Production Control and Management
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