News Articles
October 10, 2022
RET Program Progress Presented at NSF Grantees Conference
Associate Research Professor at CIVS, Armin Silaen presented a poster at the NSF Engineering Education and Centers Grantees Conference highlighting the 6-week National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Teachers (RET) summer program.
October 17, 2022
CIVS Applied Research in Advanced Computing Highlighted at Purdue Cyberinfrastructure Symposium
Dr. Chenn Zhou presented virtually, “Industrial Applications of Multi-Physics Computational Simulation and Visualization” at the Cyberinfrastructure Symposium on October 4th in Stewart Center’s Fowler Hall at Purdue University- West Lafayette highlighting the various research and integration projects at CIVS.
January 13, 2021
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy announced that PNW Steel Manufacturing Simulation and Visualization Consortium housed at CIVS was selected for developing a next- generation Integrated Virtual Blast Furnace for real-time energy efficiency improvement.
July 22, 2021
Samuel Nielson Received a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering
Samuel Nielson, a CIVS Graduate Research Assistant, recently received a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University Northwest.
October 6, 2022
CIVS Research Staff Present at AIST Safety Meeting
On September 14th, Kyle Toth, Senior Research Engineer and John Moreland, Senior Research Scientist presented AR/VR training applications at the 2-day joint Safety Committee meeting held by the Steel Manufacturing Association (SMA) and the Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST).
May 13, 2020
CIVS Continues Developing Virtual Simulators for Education and Training
Since 2008, CIVS has developed more than 80 cutting-edge simulators for academic instruction and industry training including safety and operator training. With the COVID-19 Pandemic forcing […]
January 27, 2020
CIVS Demos for Boy Scouts and NWI Middle School Students
CIVS students Joel Godinez and Lei Zhou gave a walk through to Boy Scout Troop 276 on January 21st. Joel discussed simulation and visualization and how they can be used together to solve real world problems in a PowerPoint presentation.
April 27, 2020
Productive Virtual Steel Consortium Semi-Annual Meeting
The Steel Manufacturing Simulation and Visualization Consortium (SMSVC) had its Spring semi-annual meeting virtually using Cisco WebEx across the dates of April 21-23, 2020. Over 80 engineers and managers from […]
April 2, 2020
CIVS Presents a 360 Video Workshop at Charter Steel and See the Annealing Furnace
On January 30th, 2020, a visit to Charter Steel in Saukville, WI, promoted technical exchange between members of Charter’s safety team and CIVS staff members, and provided a tour to […]
June 29, 2021
CIVS Students Won Three AIST Student Contest Awards
CIVS research students won three out of six contest awards. Congratulations to the following students! Graduate Student Poster Contest: First place: Vitalis Anisiuba, Numerical Investigation of Air-Mist Spray Cooling and […]







