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September 12, 2025
7 CIVS Graduate Research Assistants Receive PNW Grant Awards
Congratulations to 7 CIVS Graduate Research Assistants on being selected as recipients of PNW Graduate Research Grant Awards for the 2025-2026 Academic Year, sponsored by Graduate Studies Office at PNW.
September 4, 2025
CIVS Delivered Plenary Talk and Technical Presentation at SteelSim 2025
On September 2 and 4, CIVS EAF and casting research was highlighted with one plenary talk and two technical papers at the SteelSim 2025 International Conference in Třinec, Czech Republic.
September 3, 2025
CIVS Showcases at PNW New Semester Events
CIVS staff and students enjoyed welcoming back the Purdue University Northwest community for the fall semester at the PNW Faculty & Staff Resource Fair and Westville and Hammond Welcome Rallies. CIVS offered demonstrations of projects as well as informing students and staff about CIVS's work. PNW hosts these events each year to kick-off the new semester to network and discover resources and organizations across campus.
August 27, 2025
CIVS Safety Research Presented at TMS Specialty Congress
On June 18, CIVS Graduate Research Assistant Monika Singhal presented "Architecture for Developing an Image Recognition Model Workflow for Workplace Safety Application" at the TMS Specialty Congress in Anaheim, CA.
August 18, 2025
The U.S. Department of Commerce's CHIPS for America program has awarded $285 million to Semiconductor Research Corp. to establish the Semiconductor Manufacturing and Advanced Research with Twins (SMART) USA Institute. CIVS, with proven record in developing and implementing digital twins for manufacturing, was invited to participate during the proposal stage for a national competition for the Institute. CIVS has been active in various activities as part of the team at Purdue University, which is a lead academic member of the institute.
July 23, 2025
CIVS Hydrogen Research Presented at ASME Summer Heat Transfer
On July 8-10, CIVS Associate Director for Operations Armin Silaen presented “Numerical Investigation of Hydrogen Fuel in Steel Reheating Furnace” at the ASME 2025 Summer Heat Transfer Conference in Westminster, CO.
August 19, 2025
CIVS Staff and Students Visit U.S. Steel Gary Works and Charter Steel for Collaboration Projects
CIVS Senior Research Engineer Kyle Toth traveled with senior design and other CIVS student workers to U.S. Steel Gary Works to observe BOF process operations to learn what should be targeted for activities for training as part of the senior design work being performed.
August 22, 2025
Congratulations to CIVS graduate, undergraduate, and senior design students on receiving the multiple awards and grants.
August 26, 2025
EAF Research Presented at EASES Conference
On June 12, EAF research was presented at the EASES (European Academic Symposium on EAF Steelmaking) 2025 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Hamzah Alshawarghi from Linde presented "An Integrated CFD Modeling Approach Towards an Entire EAF Operation Process". The presentation is co-authored by CIVS Director Chenn Zhou, CIVS Research Scientist Orlando Ugarte, CIVS Associate Director for Research Ty Okosun, CIVS Ph.D. student Shiyu Wang, CIVS Graduate Research Assistant Sathvika Kottapalli, and Linde's Joe Maiolo.
August 26, 2025
CIVS Staff Had A Productive Visit to Finkl Steel
On August 7, CIVS staff had a productive visit to Finkl Steel in Chicago. CIVS presented research and projects in areas of safety, EAF, ladle, casting, and reheating furnace. The visit was organized by Dan Stewart, Sr. Melt Shop Process Metallurgist. Thank you to Dan and the Finkl Steel team for hosting the wonderful visit.
