News Articles
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
November 16, 2021
SMSVC Hosts its First Hybrid Annual Meeting
The Steel Manufacturing Simulation and Visualization Consortium (SMSVC) held its first hybrid Annual meeting on November 9 and 10, 2021.
November 3, 2021
Virtual Die Casting Simulator at 2021 AMC Technology Review
CIVS Researcher John (Jack) Moreland gave a presentation entitled “High Pressure Die Casting Process Modeling and Simulation Development for the Shop Floor” at the American Metalcasting Consortium (AMC) Technology Review.
November 2, 2021
CIVS Researchers Present in 2021 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition
CIVS Research Associate Professor and the Session Chair of Fire and Combustion Heat Transfer, Armin Silaen and CIVS Ph.D. student, Xipeng Guo presented two papers at the virtual International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) hosted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
October 21, 2021
CIVS Presents in PNW Engineering Freshman Orientation
Professors Chenn and Okosun each presented the history and purpose of CIVS and explained to students the great opportunity that working with CIVS is for engineering students.
October 21, 2021
CIVS Researchers Visit U. S. Steel Gary Works for DOE IVBF Project
Long-time CIVS collaborator and SMSVC member company U. S. Steel hosted a plant tour and facilitated the first steps of technical research for the U. S. Department of Energy funded Integrated Virtual Blast Furnace (IVBF) project.
October 21, 2021
CIVS Presents in 10th European Conference on Continuous Casting
On October 21, 2021, CIVS researcher, Dr. Haibo Ma presented his paper “Investigation of Spray Cooling Uniformity and Intensity during Continuous Casting of Steel” in the 10th European Conference on […]