At the suggestion of her husband Hans P. Eugster, Koppelman completed a doctorate in the history of science at Johns Hopkins University in 1969.

[1] Her dissertation was titled Calculus of operations: French influence on British mathematics in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Koppelman completed the dissertation with her doctoral advisor was Harry Woolf and Carl Benjamin Boyer of Brooklyn College.

[3] In 1987, she earned a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Johns Hopkins University.

After Eugster's death in 1987, Koppelman volunteered for the Peace Corps and taught data processing in Seychelles.