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November 10, 2020
CIVS Director Received the 2020 AIST Presidential Citation Award
CIVS Director, Dr. Chenn Zhou, is the recipient of the 2020 AIST Presidential Citation Award. This award was announced in the AIST September 2020 Newsletter. AIST President, Ronald J. O’Malley, […]
September 28, 2020
Senator Todd Young Visits CIVS
U.S. Senator for Indiana, Todd Young, visited CIVS on July 6 to learn about the technological innovation and commercialization happening through the center and the benefits for Northwest Indiana’s economic development. […]
October 8, 2020
Congressional Candidate Frank Mrvan Visits CIVS
Frank J. Mrvan, a candidate for Indiana’s 1st Congressional District, visited CIVS on October 7th to learn about current, past, and future technological innovation and applied research taking place at […]
October 23, 2020
Undergraduate Research & Indiana Space Grants Awarded to CIVS Students
16 CIVS Students were awarded Undergraduate Research and Indiana Space Grants to support their Senior Design Research projects on October 16, 2020. We would like to congratulate the following students: […]
October 13, 2020
Research Paper on EAF Arc Melting – Published in Frontiers in Materials Journal
Yuchao Chen, a CIVS Ph.D. student, recently published his full-length research paper entitled “Multi-Physics Modeling of Steel Ingot Melting by Electric Arc Plasma and its Application to Electric Arc Furnace” […]
September 2, 2020
Two CIVS Students Receive Master Degrees in Mechanical Engineering
CIVS Graduate Research Assistants Edwin A. Mosquera and Xiang Zhou recently received master degrees in Mechanical Engineering from PNW. Edwin conducted his senior design project at CIVS for his B.S. […]
August 18, 2020
CIVS Virtual Fall Orientation and Operation Update
The CIVS Staff hosted a virtual fall semester orientation for all of our student workers and research assistants on August 17. We had over 30 attendees to review CIVS policies […]
September 17, 2020
CIVS Director Prof. Chenn Zhou and Senior Research Engineer Dr. Tyamo Okosun will serve as guest editors for a special issue of the journal Processes entitled “Multiphase Reacting Flows: Modeling […]
August 2, 2020
CIVS is Developing a Digital Twin for CESMII and ArcelorMittal’s Zero Defect Slab Casting
CIVS is part of a group collaborating on an ArcelorMittal and CESMII-hosted project titled “Production of Zero-defect (ZD) Slabs through the Implementation of Smart Manufacturing Technologies in Steel Continuous Casting”. […]
August 12, 2020
Reheat Furnace Modeling Presentation to the Linde International Organization
CIVS researchers presented modeling and simulations of reheating furnace in the steel industry for Linde managers and engineers in Europe, Asia and North America on August 11th, 2020. The purpose […]
