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August 6, 2021
CIVS Celebrates the Success of NSF Summer Research Experience for Teachers
CIVS concluded a 6-week National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Teachers (RET) summer program with 11 High School and Community College Teachers from Northwest Indiana and Illinois on July. […]
May 30, 2021
Presentation: Spray Cooling at the Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC)
CIVS Ph.D. student, Haibo Ma, presented the research titled “Investigation of Spray Cooling Uniformity and Intensity during Continuous Casting of Steel” at the 5th-6th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC) […]
June 16, 2021
Presentation: Oxygen-Enrichment in a Reheat Furnace at ASME SHTC 2021
CIVS researcher Dr. ArminSilaen presented the research paper titled “Reduction of Fuel Utilization through Oxygen-Enriched Combustion in a Pusher-Type Reheat Furnace” at the ASME Summer Heat Transfer Virtual conference on […]
April 5, 2021
CIVS Students Win Awards For Days of Discovery
Congratulations to CIVS Students and their mentors! We are pleased to share that the following CIVS Students received awards for their Student Presentations during the Days of Discovery on Thursday, […]
May 3, 2021
AIME Honorary Membership Award
Chenn Zhou, NIPSCO Distinguished Professor of Engineering Simulation, as well as the Director of the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) and the Steel Manufacturing Simulation and Visualization […]
June 24, 2021
CIVS Kicks off Three New Research Projects
Three new CIVS projects recently kicked off with the SMSVC members. First, long-time CIVS partner and SMSVC member company Stelco met with CIVS researchers on June 2nd to kick off […]
May 14, 2021
Student Success Story: Haibo Ma
Haibo Ma, a CIVS Graduate Research Assistant, recently received a Doctoral Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University West Lafayette. His Ph.D. thesis titled “On Heat Transfer Mechanisms in Secondary […]
June 30, 2021
Local Teens Learn VR and Simulation at Engineering Camp
Over 40 teens from around Northwest Indiana visited CIVS in June as part of Purdue Northwest’s Mechanical and Civil Engineering 2021 Summer Camp. While at CIVS, the students learned about […]
May 21, 2021
CIVS Student Honored with the Chancellor’s Medallion
Emily Higley, CIVS undergraduate Research student worker, recently received a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from PNW with the Chancellor’s Medallion. She is the graduating senior with the highest grade […]
June 20, 2021
Cleveland Cliffs Gift Enables Cutting Edge Student Research
The Cleveland Cliffs Campus Partnership Program gifted CIVS with funds to purchase cutting-edge simulation and visualization hardware for student researchers to develop projects related to the steel industry and smart […]
