News Articles
May 28, 2020
CIVS Presents Webinar Series to Die Casting Industry
CIVS researchers Kyle Toth and John “Jack” Moreland will present a series of webinars to members of the North American Die Casting Association (NADCA) on June 2 & 3. The series is titled "Advanced Visualization Technology Used in Manufacturing", and will cover how Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and 360-degree Videos are being utilized to advance manufacturing industries. Training, maintenance, and process improvements can all benefit from these tools.
May 14, 2020
CIVS Students Win Virtual Senior Design Day
Congratulations to CIVS Senior Design Students and their mentors! In spite of unprecedented challenges the likes of which none of us has experienced in our lives, our senior design students […]
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 […]
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 3, 2020
Purdue, PNW, CES and SOE Announcements on Dr. Zhou being the NIPSCO Distinguished Professor
Purdue University Northwest and Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) announced that NIPSCO has created an endowment to establish a professorship in Engineering Simulation. Dr. Chenn Zhou will be the first to serve in the newly endowed position.
April 3, 2020
John Luis Estrada Guayta Received PNW & AIST Awards
Congratulations to CIVS Research Assistant John Luis Estrada Guayta! John was honored on March 6 with the Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award for his commitment and dedication to the development […]
April 3, 2020
CIVS Featured on Lakeshore PBS
CIVS was featured the eleventh episode of the first season of Friends & Neighbors on Lakeshore PBS. Friends & Neighbors is a half-hour long program that explores the diverse set of lives and workplaces […]
April 2, 2020
NIPSCO Visits CIVS to Discuss Current and Future Collaborations
Two groups from NIPSCO visited CIVS on February 12 to review interactive education and virtual safety training research and discuss current and potential projects. The first group included Russ Viater, […]
April 2, 2020
Safety Training, EAF Simulation Discussed at SDI Butler Facility
CIVS teams visited Steel Dynamics, Inc to discuss cutting-edge projects in safety training, engineering simulations, & smart manufacturing on October 29, 2019. CIVS Senior Research Scientist John Moreland talked with […]
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 […]