Midwest Member Chapter

Young Steel Professionals’ Night

Tuesday, 11 November 2025The Avalon Manor • Merrillville, Ind., USA

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Panelists:

♦ Zachary Gault, Cleveland-Cliffs Burns Harbor, Hot Strip Mill Maintenance Engineer

♦ Jackson Polarek, NLMK Portage, Hot Strip Mill Process Engineer

♦ Ethan Gniadek, U.S. Steel – Gary Works, Maintenance Manager - Planning

♦ Stephanie Lam, US Steel Midwest, Project Engineer

♦ Emily Glover, Cleveland-Cliffs Indiana Harbor, Environmental Engineer

♦ Michelle Boline, Steel Dynamics Inc. - Structural and Rail Division, Caster Metallurgical Engineer

Moderator:

♦ Soumitra Agashe, Cleveland-Cliffs Burns Harbor, Senior Division Manager, Hot Strip Mill, Plate Mills, Finishing

Pricing

US$70 per person

US$560 Company-sponsored Table of 8

Schedule of Events

5:30 p.m. Social Hour

6:30 p.m. Dinner 

7:30 p.m. Presentations


Questions?

 Please contact our host:

Zach Faylor +1.574.216.5032   



Bring Your Own Young Professional (BYOYP) 

BYOYPAIST's Bring Your Own Young Professional (BYOYP) program rewards our Members for helping build a sustainable steel industry at the most important level:  the next generation.  Getting Young Professionals involved in AIST, and the greater steel industry, provides opportunity and benefits for all involved.  Find out more information about the program here.