News Articles

  • December 15, 2021

    CIVS Researchers visit Chicago White Metal Casting, Inc.

    CIVS Senior Research Scientist, John Moreland and graduate students, Cristina Cabascango and John Estrada visited Chicago White Metal to gather information from the die caster related to melting furnace operations and maintenance.

  • December 15, 2021

    AR Project Visit at Burns Harbor

    CIVS researcher John Moreland and graduate student Myriam Changoluisa met with safety instructors at Cleveland Cliffs Burns Harbor’s Deer field training center on December 13, 2021.

  • December 10, 2021

    CIVS Researchers Visit NLMK Indiana for Burner Melting Trial

    SMSVC member company NLMK Indiana hosted CIVS Researchers in their facility in Portage, IN.

  • December 4, 2021

    CIVS Kicks off a New Project with Cleveland-Cliffs

    On December 2, 2021, CIVS has a virtual kick-off meeting for the project with Cleveland-Cliffs Burns Harbor collaborated with M. N. Dastur & Company (P) Ltd.

  • December 3, 2021

    CIVS Highlighted at 23rd IAS Steel Conference 2021

    On December 1, 2021, CIVS researcher Haibo Ma and his co-presenter, CIVS graduate research assistant, Vitalis Anisiuba, presented virtually at 23rd IAS Steel Conference 2021.

  • December 2, 2021

    CIVS Graduate Assistant Received Positive Feedback for the Thesis Defense

    Vitalis Ebuka Anisiuba, a graduate student of Mechanical Engineering at PNW and a Research Assistant at CIVS defended his Masters thesis.

  • November 25, 2021

    CIVS Kicks off the Cleveland-Cliffs Toledo HBI Project

    On November 23rd, 2021, CIVS attends the virtual project kick-off meeting with Cleveland-Cliffs Toledo team members on simulation of their HBI facility. Stuart Street, Technical Manager Ironmaking at Cleveland-Cliffs, hosts the meeting and welcome the attendees from Toledo Iron Units and Purdue Northwest CIVS, including Greg Diefenthaler, Senior Process Engineer at Toledo Iron Units; Lisa Young, Process Engineer at Toledo Iron Units; Tyamo Okosun, Research Associate Professor at CIVS; Samuel Nielson and John Rosser, Graduate Research Assistants at CIVS. This kick-off meeting is for the “Study of Phenomena in the Cleveland Cliffs Toledo HBI Plant” project.

  • November 24, 2021

    Cleveland Cliffs Visit for Logout-Tagout Training

    Safety instructors from Cleveland Cliffs Burns Harbor’s Deerfield Training Center visited CIVS to review progress on the ongoing ARMSS project.

  • November 23, 2021

    U.S. Steel Visit for Recording and Reviewing

    Safety instructors from U.S. Steel Gary Works visited CIVS on November 22,2021 to record audio for mobile equipment safety training simulators. CIVS researcher, Jack Moreland warmly welcomed them and showed […]

  • November 16, 2021

    SMSVC Hosts its First Hybrid Annual Meeting

    The Steel Manufacturing Simulation and Visualization Consortium (SMSVC) held its first hybrid Annual meeting on November 9 and 10, 2021.