All Posts
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
July 13, 2022
Kelly Carmichael, Vice President of Federal Government Affairs, Environmental, and Sustainability at NiSource visited CIVS on July 8 to discuss ongoing projects, the Steel Manufacturing Simulation and Visualization Consortium, and future collaborations.
July 8, 2022
CIVS Researchers Visit Charter Steel for Safety Training Simulator
CIVS Staff and students visited Charter Steel, one of the fifteen members of the Steel Manufacturing Simulation and Visualization Consortium (SMSVC)
July 5, 2022
Cleveland-Cliffs Indiana Harbor Tour for U. S. DOE IVBF
On Monday, June 20, the IVBF project team visited Cleveland-Cliffs Indiana Harbor Blast Furnace No. 7, followed by an afternoon project discussion meeting at CIVS.
July 3, 2022
RET Program Outcomes Presented in the ASEE 2022
Kyle Toth, CIVS Senior Research Engineer, presented the poster entitled “Research Experiences for the Teachers in Simulation and Visualization for Innovation Industrial Solutions” at the ASEE 2022 Annual Conference – Excellence Through Diversity held in Minneapolis, Minnesota from June 26 – 29.
July 1, 2022
NSF RET Teachers Visit U. S. Steel Gary Works
On June 30, 2022, eight high school teachers from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program visited the U.S. Steel Gary plant, accompanied by CIVS Senior Research Scientist Jack Moreland.
