News Articles

  • July 15, 2022

    CIVS is hiring Research Assistants-Simulation!

    Specific responsibilities include conducting literature research relevant to the assigned project topic area, defining and running simulations using commercial simulation software, post-processing simulation results, and analyzing those results to make determinations for process improvements or establish new simulations to help answer key research questions

  • July 13, 2022

    NiSource Vice President Visit

    Kelly Carmichael, Vice President of Federal Government Affairs, Environmental, and Sustainability at NiSource visited CIVS on July 8 to discuss ongoing projects, the Steel Manufacturing Simulation and Visualization Consortium, and future collaborations.

  • July 8, 2022

    CIVS Researchers Visit Charter Steel for Safety Training Simulator

    CIVS Staff and students visited Charter Steel, one of the fifteen members of the Steel Manufacturing Simulation and Visualization Consortium (SMSVC)

  • July 5, 2022

    Cleveland-Cliffs Indiana Harbor Tour for U. S. DOE IVBF

    On Monday, June 20, the IVBF project team visited Cleveland-Cliffs Indiana Harbor Blast Furnace No. 7, followed by an afternoon project discussion meeting at CIVS.

  • July 3, 2022

    RET Program Outcomes Presented in the ASEE 2022

    Kyle Toth, CIVS Senior Research Engineer, presented the poster entitled “Research Experiences for the Teachers in Simulation and Visualization for Innovation Industrial Solutions” at the ASEE 2022 Annual Conference – Excellence Through Diversity held in Minneapolis, Minnesota from June 26 – 29.

  • July 1, 2022

    NSF RET Teachers Visit U. S. Steel Gary Works

    On June 30, 2022, eight high school teachers from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program visited the U.S. Steel Gary plant, accompanied by CIVS Senior Research Scientist Jack Moreland.

  • June 16, 2022

    U. S. Steel Team Visit for the DOE $7 Million IVBF Project

    The U.S. Steel team visited CIVS to discuss the implementation of the casting rate analyzer that is being implemented within the IVBF project on June 14, 2022.

  • June 15, 2022

    Digital Twin Presentation at Smart Manufacturing Experience

    CIVS Director Dr. Chen Zhou was invited to present “A Digital Twin Solution for Continuous Casting of Steel Manufacturing” on June 7, 2022, at the Smart Manufacturing Experience event co-hosted by CESMII in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

  • June 14, 2022

    CIVS Welcomes NSF RET Teachers Second Year in a Row

    The opening ceremony for the second High School and Community College teacher’s summer program was held at the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) Immersive Theater on June 13th.

  • May 26, 2022

    CIVS Welcomes Representatives from Gopher Resource to Purdue Northwest

    As part of the ongoing collaboration between CIVS and Gopher Resource, CIVS recently welcomed two members of Gopher Resource to visit the Center at the Purdue Northwest campus in Hammond, Indiana on May 16.