2018 Issue

13 Brian Warner presents Ian Klosowiak with his Fresh Face in Engineering Award FRESH FACE Ian Klosowiak KLOS Innovations LLC, SAMPE The Utah Chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering nominated Ian Klosowiak, owner of KLOS Innovations, for Utah’s Fresh Face in Engi- neering for 2018. Ian designed a carbon fiber composite material travel gui- tar prototype in 2014 for a school project, and won a 2015 Princeton University business startup award for mentorship to start a company for production of the guitar. He founded the company (KLOS Innovations LLC) in 2015 and remains an owner and the CTO. Ian has overseen continual optimi- zation of both the design and production process of the guitar. A carbon fiber composite guitar usually involves expensive materials and process methods, but Ian has engineered a low-cost process to sell the most affordable carbon guitar in the world. This has required a significant amount of seeking out and learning from other experts, researching the internet, and M+P experimentation. He now employees over 20 people at KLOS, many of whom are former student peers at BYU. In just over two years, Ian already has already raised over $620,000 in crowd funding campaigns, in addition to web sales. He has been featured in various consumer publications, review websites, and local television media (www.klosguitars.com/press ). MESA TEACHER OF THE YEAR Carly Stirland The MESA Teacher of the Year is Carly Stirland, a STEM teacher at Oquirrh Hills Middle School in the Jordan District. Carly earned her bachelor’s in technology and engineering education. In her 5 years as a technology and engineering teacher, she has co-founded the Oquirrh Hills MESA club, started the after school STEM Academy, co-taught robotics, led a project to build a robot to deliver notes to teachers around the school, and been advisor for PTSA . Her students earned money for cancer research. Carly helped write new state standards for the Engineering and Technology class. Each year she takes 50 students to USU Physics Day Lagoon to compete in STEM games. Carly says, “The best thing about teaching is seeing my students figure out solutions after trying so many times.” The mis- sion of MESA to increase the number of females and ethnic minorities who pursue course work, advanced study and possible careers in math, science, engineering, and related technical fields. Key elements of MESA include hands-on math, science, and engineering exploration, development of academic strategies, college and career information, promotion of life skills, parent outreach and information, role models from higher education and the business com- munity, and special events including competitions, campus visits, and field trips. Carly Stirland excels at all these im- portant factors and was awarded a $500 check sponsored by the Society of Plumbing Engineers. Nathan Moore presents Carly Stirland MESA Teacher of the Year Award