News Articles
June 21, 2020
Graduate Student Starts Career at ArcelorMittal
Bethany Worl graduated from Purdue Northwest in December 2019 with a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. She completed the thesis option of the program, and the title of her thesis […]
June 18, 2020
Lifetime Prediction for Electronics Funded by NSWC Crane Division
CIVS was awarded a DoD grant from the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) – Crane Division for the study of lifetime prediction in electronics components in Spring 2020. Using the […]
May 30, 2020
CIVS Presented a Webinar on Simulator for Wind Turbine Technician Education
CIVS will present a webinar on a project being developed for wind turbine technician education on Friday, May 29th, at 1:00PM CST. The webinar is being hosted by the Center For Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education (CREATE).
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 […]