On October 5, faculty members from PNW held a student-centered civics event in the CIVS Immersive Theater. “Literature and Politics: When Nobel Prize Winners Speak” was a collaborative effort between Professor Jin Lu’s French students & Professor Yu Ouyang’s political science students. The event took place on the same day that the 2023 Nobel Prize […]

On October 10, more than 25 CIVS undergraduate and graduate research students, faculty mentors, and professors attended the AIST Midwest Member Chapter Dinner at the Avalon Manor in Merrillville. During the event, words of praise and acknowledgment were given to CIVS students in attendance, who were called to stand up by the speaker and given […]

Purdue University Northwest (PNW) is a major partner from Indiana in an alliance awarded up to $1 billion in funding to develop a regional clean hydrogen production and distribution hub in the Midwest, as announced by President Biden on Oct. 13. PNW, through its Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS), will be integrally […]

Purdue University Northwest’s (PNW) Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) along with industrial, education, federal, and elected leaders gathered 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 to support decarbonization research, development, and demonstration in the steel industry. […]

Congratulations to recent Purdue Northwest MSME graduate and CIVS research assistant Neel Busa for joining SMSVC member company ArcelorMittal as an Electric Arc Furnace Engineer. The post Student Success Story: Neel Busa appeared first on Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS).

On September 26, around 20 AIST Ironmaking Technology Committee members held their meeting at CIVS, facilitated by Committee Chair Joe Morey of US Steel and AIST manager Anne Voss. During the meeting, several technical presentations included: “Impacts and Dynamics of Shaft-Level Tuyere Injection with Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling” presented by CIVS PhD student Sam Nielson; […]

On September 22, CIVS staff and students were invited by Gerdau’s Kevin Kondrat to tour the reheating furnace at the Gerdau Special Steel facility in Monroe, Michigan. The group included Misbah Syed and Abhishek Kolakotla, graduate students from the simulation lab at CIVS who work directly on SMSVC projects related to reheat furnace operations, and […]

CIVS Senior Research Engineer Kyle Toth officially became the Vice Chair of the AIST Safety & Health Technology Committee on September 13th. He was elected in May at AISTech 2023.  The meeting was held in Memphis, TN, and was a joint meeting with the Galvanizing and Digitalization Applications Technology Committees to prepare for AISTech 2024 […]

On September 19-21, 2023, Senior Research Scientist John “Jack” Moreland demonstrated the virtual die-casting simulator customized for NADCA by CIVS at The Die Casting Congress and Exhibition. NADCA members use the simulator to reduce the training time of new personnel and improve the capabilities of an organization’s workforce. One of the project’s highlights is a […]

On September 12th, Dr. Chenn Zhou, Director of CIVS, presented at SteelSim 2023 at The University of Warwick, UK. Her presentation entitled “CFD Modeling of Electric Arc Furnace for Process Optimization” highlights computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as a valuable tool for research and development, providing fundamental process understanding and practical guidance for the design, troubleshooting, […]