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August 26, 2022
CIVS Kicks-Off New Decarbonization Project with Cleveland Cliffs
CIVS is working on a new project regarding performance optimization and greenhouse gas mitigation with a long-time collaborator and SMSVC member, Cleveland Cliffs.
August 25, 2022
Purdue Northwest CIVS researchers awarded at AISTech conference
PNW’s Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) won three prestigious awards at the Association for Iron & Steel Technology 2022 conference and exposition.
August 23, 2022
Steel Dynamics Plant Trip for Smart Ladle Implementation
In early August, several members of the CIVS “Smart Ladle” team, hosted by Chase Ault of Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI) Butler Division toured their steelmaking plant in Butler, Indiana.
August 3, 2022
CIVS Supported BP Summer Camps and PNW New Student Orientation
CIVS supported a number of student activities during the summer to introduce young people to engineering and stimulate their interest in engineering.
August 2, 2022
Student Success Story: Saswot Thapa
Saswot Thapa is a CIVS Graduate Research Assistant, who recently received his master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University Northwest after successfully defending his thesis
July 30, 2022
Presentation at the 33rd Canadian Materials Science Conference
On July 23, Armin Silaen, an Associate Research Professor in CIVS, delivered a technical presentation at the 33rd Canadian Materials Science Conference in Toronto, Canada. The conference was hosted by the University of Toronto.
July 27, 2022
Student Success Story: Yuchao Chen
Yuchao Chen, a research assistant in CIVS, received his Doctor of Philosophy degree after successfully defending his dissertation at Purdue University West Lafayette
July 25, 2022
CIVS EAF Research Work Published in Two Top Journals
Two top journals, Applied Thermal Engineering (ATE) and Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B (MMTB), published two research papers entitled “Effect of the coherent jet burner on scrap melting in electric arc furnace” and “Simulation of Scrap Melting Process in an AC Electric Arc Furnace: CFD Model Development and Experimental Validation” authored by Yuchao Chen. Yuchao is a research assistant in CIVS who recently received his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in fluid mechanics and heat transfer from Purdue University West Lafayette.
July 20, 2022
CIVS Presents at 2022 Summer Heat Transfer Conference
Senior Research Engineer Nick Walla gave a presentation about the Lead Reverberatory Furnace model at the ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference (SHTC) 2022 Conference in the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown, Philadelphia, PA on July 12.
July 15, 2022
CIVS is hiring Research Assistants-Simulation!
Specific responsibilities include conducting literature research relevant to the assigned project topic area, defining and running simulations using commercial simulation software, post-processing simulation results, and analyzing those results to make determinations for process improvements or establish new simulations to help answer key research questions
