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  • December 3, 2021

    CIVS Highlighted at 23rd IAS Steel Conference 2021

    On December 1, 2021, CIVS researcher Haibo Ma and his co-presenter, CIVS graduate research assistant, Vitalis Anisiuba, presented virtually at 23rd IAS Steel Conference 2021.

  • December 2, 2021

    CIVS Graduate Assistant Received Positive Feedback for the Thesis Defense

    Vitalis Ebuka Anisiuba, a graduate student of Mechanical Engineering at PNW and a Research Assistant at CIVS defended his Masters thesis.

  • November 25, 2021

    CIVS Kicks off the Cleveland-Cliffs Toledo HBI Project

    On November 23rd, 2021, CIVS attends the virtual project kick-off meeting with Cleveland-Cliffs Toledo team members on simulation of their HBI facility. Stuart Street, Technical Manager Ironmaking at Cleveland-Cliffs, hosts the meeting and welcome the attendees from Toledo Iron Units and Purdue Northwest CIVS, including Greg Diefenthaler, Senior Process Engineer at Toledo Iron Units; Lisa Young, Process Engineer at Toledo Iron Units; Tyamo Okosun, Research Associate Professor at CIVS; Samuel Nielson and John Rosser, Graduate Research Assistants at CIVS. This kick-off meeting is for the “Study of Phenomena in the Cleveland Cliffs Toledo HBI Plant” project.

  • November 24, 2021

    Cleveland Cliffs Visit for Logout-Tagout Training

    Safety instructors from Cleveland Cliffs Burns Harbor’s Deerfield Training Center visited CIVS to review progress on the ongoing ARMSS project.

  • November 23, 2021

    U.S. Steel Visit for Recording and Reviewing

    Safety instructors from U.S. Steel Gary Works visited CIVS on November 22,2021 to record audio for mobile equipment safety training simulators. CIVS researcher, Jack Moreland warmly welcomed them and showed […]

  • November 16, 2021

    SMSVC Hosts its First Hybrid Annual Meeting

    The Steel Manufacturing Simulation and Visualization Consortium (SMSVC) held its first hybrid Annual meeting on November 9 and 10, 2021.

  • November 3, 2021

    Virtual Die Casting Simulator at 2021 AMC Technology Review

    CIVS Researcher John (Jack) Moreland gave a presentation entitled “High Pressure Die Casting Process Modeling and Simulation Development for the Shop Floor” at the American Metalcasting Consortium (AMC) Technology Review.

  • November 2, 2021

    CIVS Researchers Present in 2021 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition

    CIVS Research Associate Professor and the Session Chair of Fire and Combustion Heat Transfer, Armin Silaen and CIVS Ph.D. student, Xipeng Guo presented two papers at the virtual International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) hosted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

  • October 21, 2021

    CIVS Presents in PNW Engineering Freshman Orientation

    Professors Chenn and Okosun each presented the history and purpose of CIVS and explained to students the great opportunity that working with CIVS is for engineering students.

  • October 21, 2021

    CIVS Researchers Visit U. S. Steel Gary Works for DOE IVBF Project

    Long-time CIVS collaborator and SMSVC member company U. S. Steel hosted a plant tour and facilitated the first steps of technical research for the U. S. Department of Energy funded Integrated Virtual Blast Furnace (IVBF) project.