CIVS Students Win 6 Awards in AISTech Student Contests
Congratulations to the CIVS students, staff, and faculty who won 6 awards at AISTech 2024 in Columbus, Ohio on May 6-8, 2024.
CIVS students participated in AIST undergraduate and graduate student contests. They won 4 out of 6 awards in these contests. Congratulations to the following CIVS student award recipients!
Undergraduate Student Project Presentation Contest winners:
- First place: Veronica Pitt-Payne “Design of Hydrogen Combustion in a Reheating Furnace”
- Third place: Jacob Elizondo “Impact of Pre-Heated Scrap on Melting in EAF”
Graduate Student Poster Contest winners:
- First place: Shiyu Wang “Prediction & Validation of Melting Operation of NLMK EAF”
- Second place: Abhishek Kolakotla “Study of Hydrogen Fuel Blends in a Walking Beam Reheating Furnace”
Additionally, CIVS was the winner of the AISTech attendance challenge and was selected to receive an AISTech 2024 Material Advantage Chapter Travel Grant.
CIVS blast furnace research also received another AIST Best Paper Award in addition to seven other best papers from AIST and AISI in the past. The newly awarded paper, “Investigating the Use of Shaft-Level Tuyere Injection with Computational Fluid Dynamics,” was presented at AISTech 2023 and selected by the AIST Ironmaking Technology Committee for the 2024 Josef S. Kapitan Ironmaking Best Paper Award. It was officially presented at AISTech 2024 to the authors of this paper: CIVS Graduate Assistant Samuel E. Nielson, Associate Director for Research Tyamo Okosun, Post-Doctoral Researcher Orlando Ugarte, and CIVS Director Chenn Zhou.
The AIST Foundation sponsors these contests, which are open to students from both domestic and international universities. The research topics relate to the iron and steel industry, properties, or applications. Contents were judged on overall knowledge of the project topic, thoroughness of the content, and presentation skills.
At the AISTech Undergraduate Student Project Presentation Contest, students were selected to present their projects. The topic of the project is unlimited but must be technical in nature. Students are assigned 15-minute sessions to present their research and conclusions. Participants are judged on overall knowledge of project topic, thoroughness of the content, and presentation skills.
The Graduate Student Poster Contest at AISTech provides students the opportunity to present their research in a forum for all conference attendees to enjoy. Poster subjects must be related to the iron and steel industry, properties, or applications.
AISTech provides a platform for these amazing future leaders to showcase their research and connect with industry collaborators. AISTech is North America’s largest annual iron and steel technology conference and exposition. It provides a global perspective on today’s marketplace by featuring technologies worldwide that help steelmakers compete more effectively. AISTech is hosted by The Association for Iron & Steel Technology.
The Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST) is a non-profit organization with over 18,500 members from over 70 countries. AIST represents a large network of steel industry professionals with tremendous knowledge and expertise.
