News Articles

  • July 18, 2023

    U. S. Steel Visits CIVS to Trial New Crane Simulator For Operator Training

    Representatives from United States Steel Gary Works visited CIVS for a demonstration of the ongoing crane training simulator project in June.

  • July 5, 2023

    $7M IVBF Project Highlighted in DOE Review Meeting & Approved for Phase II

    CIVS was selected to provide one of two oral presentations to U.S. Department of Energy peer reviewers on the Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office’s ongoing efforts in steelmaking research. Project PI, Research Associate Professor Tyamo Okosun, traveled to Washington D.C. on May 17th, 2023, to summarize efforts and activities in the $7M Integrated Virtual Blast Furnace project during performance period #1.

  • June 27, 2023

    CIVS Research Engineer Elected AIST Safety Committee Vice Chair

    Kyle Toth, Senior Research Engineer at CIVS, was elected Vice Chair of the Safety and Health Technology Committee during the committee’s meeting at AISTech2023.

  • June 19, 2023

    CIVS Hosts NSF RET Teachers for Third Year

    CIVS has kicked off its third year of hosting the NSF-sponsored Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program on Monday, June 12. The program is hosting STEM teachers from around the region and the country for six weeks as they learn to carry out research using advanced simulation and visualization tools to work on real world problems from industry.

  • June 1, 2023

    RET Teacher Leads Area High School Visit to Promote STEM Opportunities

    CIVS hosted Morton High School Juniors and Sophomores on May 18. The demonstration included simulation and visualization applications as well as hands-on VR experiences.

  • May 25, 2023

    CIVS Present 7 Papers and a Panel Discussion at AISTech 2023

    CIVS Researchers and collaborators delivered various technical papers and participated in a panel session at AISTech 2023 in Detroit, MI, from May 8 to May 11, 2023. AISTech 2023 featured technologies from all over the world that help steel producers to compete more effectively in today’s global market.

  • May 25, 2023

    CIVS Students Triumph in AISTech 2023 Competitions

    Congratulations to the CIVS research assistants who won 6 awards at AISTech 2023: all three awards in the Graduate Student Poster Contest, one award in the Undergraduate oral presentation contest, the AIST Foundation video contest award, and Material Advantage Student Chapter winner for the AISTech Attendance Challenge.

  • May 9, 2023

    Cleveland-Cliffs Executive VP Delivers Keynote on Decarbonization

    Mr. Wendell Carter, Executive Vice President of Technology at Cleveland-Cliffs delivered a very insightful keynote speech at the SMSVC Annual Meeting dinner at PNW.

  • April 24, 2023

    CIVS Alumni Return as Industry Representatives

    Five recent PNW Engineering Alumni were among the over 60 industry representatives at the SMSVC Semi-Annual meeting on April 12-13, 2023. Four of them have conducted SMSVC projects as research assistants at CIVS. During the two-day event, they actively provided comments and suggestions for SMSVC projects from industrial perspectives.

  • April 20, 2023

    SMSVC Semi-Annual Meeting Highlights Digitalization and Decarbonization

    Thank you to over 60 SMSVC industry attendees for a very productive Semi-Annual Meeting on April 12th & 13th at CIVS. The meeting was opened with the CIVS & SMSVC overview by Dr. Chenn Zhou, followed by seven SMSVC project technical presentations by CIVS research students and staff.