News Articles
September 12, 2023
US Cold Storage Visits CIVS During PNW Tour
On September 6th, representatives from US Cold Storage visited CIVS during their campus tour of Purdue University Northwest.
September 7, 2023
CIVS Staff Awarded AIST Digital Technologies for Steel Manufacturing Grant
Congratulations to CIVS Senior Research Scientist John “Jack” Moreland for receiving the AIST Digital Technologies for Steel Manufacturing Grant for research and development in Hazard Recognition Scenario Builder for On-Site Customizable Virtual Training.
September 5, 2023
CIVS Welcomes Students Through Several Events
New and returning CIVS students and staff participated in various campus and department events at the start of the Fall term. Events help to welcome new students and help them settle into their new home on campus. Returning students have the opportunity to reorient themselves as well as get acquainted with new students. These activities are vital to student success at CIVS.
May 25, 2023
CIVS Present 7 Papers and a Panel Discussion at AISTech 2023
CIVS Researchers and collaborators delivered various technical papers and participated in a panel session at AISTech 2023 in Detroit, MI, from May 8 to May 11, 2023. AISTech 2023 featured technologies from all over the world that help steel producers to compete more effectively in today’s global market.
April 24, 2023
CIVS Alumni Return as Industry Representatives
Five recent PNW Engineering Alumni were among the over 60 industry representatives at the SMSVC Semi-Annual meeting on April 12-13, 2023. Four of them have conducted SMSVC projects as research assistants at CIVS. During the two-day event, they actively provided comments and suggestions for SMSVC projects from industrial perspectives.
April 3, 2023
CIVS Virtual Reality Projects Presented at International Conference
CIVS projects and methodologies were presented at the 30th IEEE VR Conference, held in Shanghai, China, on March 25-29th. Senior Research Scientist John "Jack" Moreland presented a CIVS overview with emphasis on integrating numeric simulation and virtual reality visualization for industrial applications, during the Workshop on Immersive Visualization Laboratories - Past Present and Future.
August 11, 2023
CIVS Demonstration at ArcelorMittal’s Global Health and Safety Day
On April 28, ArcelorMittal’s Global Health and Safety Day events included a demonstration of a CIVS virtual reality (VR) simulator that lets users experience fire safety scenarios. This simulator includes a real site and scenarios in a virtual environment. It implements the industry standard PASS method (Pull the pin, Aim at the base of the flame, Squeeze the lever, Sweep back and forth) to extinguish a virtual fire.
April 14, 2023
NSF RET Teacher Presented at Engineering Education Summit
Tiffany White, mathematics and engineering teacher at Homewood-Flossmoor High School, presented in the Innovation Poster Session at the 2023 ASCE Civil and Environmental Engineering Education Summit at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. Tiffany’s presentation, "Using 3D Modeling and Simulation to Virtually Test Material Performance under Specified Conditions", was created as part of the 2022 PNW NSF RET six-week summer research session at CIVS.
August 18, 2023
SMSVC Welcomes New Member: Bloom Engineering
Bloom Engineering is officially a new member of the Steel Manufacturing Simulation & Visualization Consortium (SMSVC).
July 5, 2023
$7M IVBF Project Highlighted in DOE Review Meeting & Approved for Phase II
CIVS was selected to provide one of two oral presentations to U.S. Department of Energy peer reviewers on the Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office’s ongoing efforts in steelmaking research. Project PI, Research Associate Professor Tyamo Okosun, traveled to Washington D.C. on May 17th, 2023, to summarize efforts and activities in the $7M Integrated Virtual Blast Furnace project during performance period #1.
