PNW CIVS, along with industrial, education, federal, and elected leaders, gathered on Oct. 11 to recognize a significant grant of nearly $10 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO) to support the Development and Demonstration of an Industrial Hydrogen-fired Steel Reheating Furnace (H2RF). The event attendees participated in […]

Mr. David Forrest, Principal Technical Consultant at Nexight Group, representing the Department of Energy’s Industrial Efficiency & Decarbonization Office (IEDO), delivered a keynote speech at the SMSVC Annual Meeting dinner at PNW on November 8th. In his keynote speech entitled “Decarbonization of Ironmaking and Steelmaking: Opportunities for Industry-Academia-Federal Partnerships in the Decarbonization of Ironmaking and […]

Thank you to over 50 SMSVC industry attendees for a successful Annual Meeting on November 8 and 9, hosted at the CIVS facility at the Purdue University Northwest Hammond campus. During the meeting, CIVS & SMSVC director Dr. Chenn Zhou summarized the 2023 existing accomplishments and highlighted strong academic-industry partnerships in the recent DOE grants […]

On September 23rd, Cleveland Cliffs hosted Rockport Works Family Day at its facility on the Ohio River near Rockport, Indiana, which included a VR tour of the plant created by CIVS. Through the use of 360-degree Video and Interactive Virtual Reality Tour technology developed by CIVS, family, and friends were able to participate in an […]

The Midwest Alliance for Clean Hydrogen (MachH2) was selected for a $1 Billion Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub project by U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) as announced by President Biden on Oct. 13. Purdue University Northwest (PNW), led by the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS), is excited to […]

On October 13, CIVS students and staff attended the weekly student seminar in the Immersive Theater presented by guest speaker Dr. Sayanti Roy, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Purdue Northwest. Dr. Roy’s presentation titled “Can Robots Learn to Assist Humans? A Challenge in Human Robot Interaction” expanded on machine learning techniques and the development […]

CIVS researchers and students are working with The College of the Florida Keys staff and instructors to develop immersive underwater labs to enhance existing Marine Science and Technology courses through the NSF-sponsored DREAM STEM project (Developing Reliable Educational Avenues to STEM Careers). The DREAM STEM project is part of NSF’s HSI program (Award #1928591) and […]

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science recently announced $19 million in funding over four years for DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory to lead the multi-institutional Center for Steel Electrification by Electrosynthesis (C-STEEL). The center aims to develop an innovative and low-cost process for alternative steelmaking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 85%. The […]

PNW CIVS is a sub-recipient of a new DOE grant on a project entitled “Scaling Hydrogen-Direct Reduced Iron Pathways to Decarbonize Iron and Steelmaking.” The project is led by the Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research (CISR) at Carnegie Mellon with industrial partners from Nucor Steel Corporation and United States Steel Corporation, with the objective […]

On July 27th, CIVS hosted local and national representatives from U. S. Steel for project overviews, progress presentations, and a facility showcase. The visit also included open trials of the customizable crane training simulator, just one day before the project team’s progress demonstration with crane operators and training personnel from U. S. Steel Gary Works. […]