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  • Logo: Senior Design, 2021

    December 21, 2021

    CIVS Senior Design Students Win Senior Design Awards

    Congratulations to CIVS groups for winning the Fall 2021 Senior Design Poster Competition!

  • Logo: Chicago White Metal Casting

    December 15, 2021

    CIVS Researchers visit Chicago White Metal Casting, Inc.

    CIVS Senior Research Scientist, John Moreland and graduate students, Cristina Cabascango and John Estrada visited Chicago White Metal to gather information from the die caster related to melting furnace operations and maintenance.

  • Individual standing outdoors in front of Deerfield Woods Center commercial signage holding VR headset in large black case

    December 15, 2021

    AR Project Visit at Burns Harbor

    CIVS researcher John Moreland and graduate student Myriam Changoluisa met with safety instructors at Cleveland Cliffs Burns Harbor’s Deer field training center on December 13, 2021.

  • CIVS Researchers with NLMK Manager of Process Technology, Steve Ryan

    December 10, 2021

    CIVS Researchers Visit NLMK Indiana for Burner Melting Trial

    SMSVC member company NLMK Indiana hosted CIVS Researchers in their facility in Portage, IN.

  • Logo: Cleveland Cliffs

    December 4, 2021

    CIVS Kicks off a New Project with Cleveland-Cliffs

    On December 2, 2021, CIVS has a virtual kick-off meeting for the project with Cleveland-Cliffs Burns Harbor collaborated with M. N. Dastur & Company (P) Ltd.

  • Slide of IAS presentation

    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.

  • Vitalis Anisiuba

    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.

  • Digital rendering of a virtual industrial building

    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.

  • Visitors participate in hands-on experiences of AR & VR projects in the visualization lab. Participants are standing while wearing a tethered VR headsets

    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.

  • A small group of people stand together in a row in an the CIVS lobby with logo in background

    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 […]