News Articles
August 8, 2025
CIVS Staff and Students Visit SDI Butler for Collaboration Project
CIVS students and staff had two separate visits to SDI Butler in July to take videos of different processes to use for a virtual tour for recruiting and education for K-12 students.
March 12, 2025
CIVS Senior Research Scientist Presents VR-FUTURES Project at NWI Child Trauma Summit
On February 28, CIVS Senior Research Engineer John “Jack” Moreland presented work on the VR-FUTURES project in a workshop at the NWI Child Trauma Summit at PNW’s Westville campus. The project title is short for “Virtual Reality For Understanding Trauma and Utilizing Regulation When Experiencing Stress” and provides a tool for clinicians to use when working with youth who have been affected by ACEs (adverse childhood experiences).
November 18, 2024
Thirteen PNW faculty and staff members are being recognized by Purdue University’s Office of Research for impactful scholarly initiatives that have earned millions of dollars in external funding.
July 23, 2025
CIVS Hosts Representatives from Merrillville School Corporation
On July 16, representatives from Merrillville Community School’s technology department and Superintendent visited CIVS.
July 23, 2025
Chancellor’s Advisory Board Visits CIVS
On June 13, CIVS welcomed PNW’s Chancellor’s Advisory Board.
July 17, 2025
Cleveland-Cliffs Managers Have Successful Visit to CIVS
Eight Managers from Cleveland Cliffs visited CIVS on June 11. The group, led by Stephen Palmer (Enterprise Director of Engineering), spent several hours to thoroughly review past and current projects conducted at CIVS & and Steel Manufacturing Simulation and Visualization Consortium (SMSVC). The topics covered Blast Furnace, DRI, EAF, Ladle, Reheating Furnace, Casting, Safety including AI Hazard Recognition, Crane Training, and other VR & AR simulators.
July 16, 2025
CIVS Graduate Research Assistant, Shiyu Wang, Successfully Defends Master’s Thesis
Congratulations to CIVS Graduate Research Assistant, Shiyu Wang, on successfully defending her Master’s thesis “Numerical Simulation of AC/DC EAF Operations: Validation and Performance” on July 15.
March 18, 2022
CIVS Highlighted at AIST Digital Transformation Forum 2022
CIVS Senior Research Engineer Kyle Toth and Senior Research Scientist John (Jack) Moreland presented the CIVS’s latest Digital Twin and VR/AR Projects at AIST Digital Transformation Forum 2022 which was held in the Westin Downtown Indianapolis on March 14th -16th,2022. This event is organized by AIST’s Electrical Applications/Sensors Subcommittee and Digitalization Applications Technology Committees.
July 22, 2024
CIVS Showcase to ASM Materials Camp for Teachers
On June 26, ASM Materials Camp for Teachers had a great time at CIVS to explore new digital technologies and their applications in industries and education. CIVS Associate Director for Operations, Armin Silaen and CIVS Senior Research Engineer, Kyle Toth presented CIVS overview and projects in CIVS's newly renovated Immersive Theater. The teachers also were given demonstrations of AR and VR projects in the CIVS visualization lab.
July 8, 2025
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Summer Camp Students Visit CIVS
The mechanical and civil engineering (MCE) department hosted two one-week summer camps. On June 23 and July 7, approximately 40 middle and high school students visited CIVS to learn the state-of-the-art technologies in simulation and visualization and applications.
