News Articles
January 11, 2023
New and Returning Students Join CIVS Orientation
CIVS welcomed new and returning students this past week during the spring semester orientation.
December 16, 2022
Student Success Story: Ogochukwu Duruiheme
Congratulations to Ogochukwu Duruiheme who recently defended her thesis entitled: “Numerical Analysis of Dissolution Behavior of Microalloying Elements in Ladle Metallurgy Furnace.”
November 15, 2022
SMSVC Meeting Highlights Decarbonization and Digitalization
Thank you to over 60 SMSVC industry attendees for a very productive Annual Meeting on November 9th & 10th at CIVS. The meeting was opened with the CIVS & SMSVC overview by Dr. Chenn Zhou, followed by SMSVC project technical presentations by CIVS students and staff. The session included comments by project technical committee industry members.
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.
January 20, 2022
US Steel in Gary, IN Hosts Researchers from CIVS and Purdue West Lafayette
CIVS and PUWL researchers came together on Thursday, January 13, 2022 to visit U.S. Steel Gary Works in Gary, IN.
January 31, 2022
CIVS announces Second Round of RET Program in Summer 2022
After highly successful Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Program in 2021, CIVS will once again open its doors to the High School and Community College teachers in the summer of 2022. The second RET Program, sponsored by National Science Foundation through a three-year grant, will take place from June 13th – July 22nd, 2022 at the RET site established at CIVS on the Purdue University Northwest Hammond Campus.
February 9, 2022
Info Session on 2/15 for Teacher Funding Opportunity!
A virtual info session will be held Tuesday, February 15 at 3:30pm about an NSF-sponsored funding opportunity for High School STEM teachers. A $6,150 stipend is available for teachers to participate in a 6-week "Research Experiences for Teachers" program at Purdue Northwest's Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS).
February 10, 2022
CIVS Presents at AIST Safety and Health Technology Committee Meeting
On February 8th to 9th, 2022, Kyle Toth, CIVS Senior Research Engineer presented at the AIST Safety and Health Technology Committee meeting in Corpus Christi, TX. The presentation is entitled “Augmented Reality for Safety and Education in the Steel Industry”.
February 23, 2022
CIVS Seminar – Special Guest Speaker: Dr. Sunday Abraham
More than 50 PNW students, faculty, and staff attended CIVS weekly seminar, virtually and in-person at CIVS Immersive Theatre on Friday, February 18, 2022.
February 24, 2022
CIVS Hydrogen Research Published in JOM
JOM, The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), published a CIVS research paper entitled “Blast Furnace Hydrogen Injection: Investigating Impacts and Feasibility with Computational Fluid Dynamics” authored by CIVS Research Associate Professor Tyamo Okosun in collaboration with CIVS graduate student, Samuel Nielson, and CIVS Director, Prof. Chenn Zhou.
