About Me

I’m a chemist working in education in the great city of Flint, MI. I really love my work and appreciate the many opportunities it has afforded me. I started my educational journey at Mott Community College. I ultimately finished both my undergraduate and graduate studies at the Univeristy of Michigan - Flint. My graduate work focused on electronic structure calculations. Which is a fancy way of saying that I used computers to model molecules. I’ve retained an interest in computing, technology, and engineering. Throughout my time at UMFlint, I worked for the university as a chemistry and math tutor, a laboratory assistant, and a graduate researcher.

After completing my studies, I took a position working in the laboratories at Kettering University where I was able to participate in many research projects. I gained experience working with a wide variety of analytical instrumentation: including, XPS, NMR, GC-MS, LC-MS, IR, UV-VIs, IC, and PCR. Kettering was the first place I was exposed to teaching. I hadn't really ever considered it before. I was still more interested in taking classes myself 😉. So I did both. I taught chemistry courses while studying chemical engineering and business. My chemical engineering students thought it was funny when I took classes with them 😅.

Teaching soon became the most rewarding part of my work. So, in 2023, I decided to take a leap and transition to full-time teaching at Mott Community College. Back where my journey started. I very much cherish the opportunity to give back to the community that has given me so much.

Contact Details

Michael Stogsdill
3205B Gorman Science Building
Mott Community College
1401 E. Court St.
Flint, MI 48503-2089
(567)343-1425
michael.stogsdill@mcc.edu

Resume

Education

University of Michigan – Flint

Masters of Chemistry • May 2012

University of Michigan – Flint

B.S. Chemistry • May 2010

Work

Mott Community College

Full-time instructor • August 2023 - Present

Kettering University

Laboratory Specialist • June 2012 - July 2022

Skills

  • Experimental Design
  • Data Analysis
  • Technical Writing
  • Chemical Safety
  • Being Awesome

Testimonials

A few comments from students...

Hearing stories and anecdotes from the professor's real experiences within the field of chemistry helped me learn and remain excited about my future career prospects. Having a professor that has practiced what they teach in a various settings gives students more perspective.

‒ Anonymous Student, Fall 2024

He was just an amazing instructor overall. He always offered help to everyone, always explained why things were the way they were. He always had slides and personal notes so he stays on track and he uses the whiteboard very often and it’s so helpful.

‒ Anonymous Student, Winter 2023

It does help that Mr. Stogsdill is friendly and relatively approachable like a cool uncle or a distant cousin. Additionally it helped that he was willing to go back through things that were a little more complex and if you still couldn’t understand it during that class period he would always offer to meet with you either later that day or the next day for tutoring Mr. Stogsdill takes a personalized approach to teaching making me and I’m sure others feel at home in his class.

‒ Anonymous Student, Fall 2024

  • Hearing stories and anecdotes from the professor's real experiences within the field of chemistry helped me learn and remain excited about my future career prospects. Having a professor that has practiced what they teach in a various settings gives students more perspective.

    Anonymous Student

  • He was just an amazing instructor overall. He always offered help to everyone, always explained why things were the way they were. He always had slides and personal notes so he stays on track and he uses the whiteboard very often and it’s so helpful.

    Anonymous Student

  • It does help that Mr. Stogsdill is friendly and relatively approachable like a cool uncle or a distant cousin Additionally it helped that he was willing to go back through things that were a little more complex and if you still couldn’t understand it during that class period he would always offer to meet with you either later that day or the next day for tutoring Mr. Stogsdill takes a personalized approach to teaching making me and I’m sure others feel at home in his class.

    Anonymous Student

  • Before most classes we would work in groups to solve problems that covered subjects that we were currently learning. Solving these problems with groups allowed me to fully comprehend the problems and solve other problems that I personally struggled with.

    Anonymous Student

  • Some components that I found beneficial was Mr. Stogsdill's structure of the classroom. He clearly organized what chapters we were going to be working on, what calculations were to be done, and the procedure we needed to understand for every class. He walked around the classroom often to answer my many questions and even had after class tutoring which I found helpful. You can tell that he clearly enjoys what he does and is happy to help when he can. Even online, he had an organized schedule for us to work on our own, with multiple resources to look at with each chapter. I found his organization to be very beneficial.

    Anonymous Online Student

  • I think that the video and constant feed back from professor Stogsdill helped me learn a lot and was very beneficial he was very willing to teach you and show you were you went wrong, and how it was supposed to be done.

    Anonymous Online Student