CIVS students and staff had two separate visits to Steel Dynamics Butler in July to take videos of different processes to use for a virtual tour for recruiting and education for K-12 students. The videos will be deployed around September and rolled out to multiple locations over the next several months. Steel Dynamics is a […]

CIVS project “Crane Monitoring for Meltshop Safety: A Collaborative Study on Load Detection and Position Tracking” is featured in August’s Issue of Iron & Steel Technology. Authors include CIVS Senior Research Engineer and AIST Safety & Health Committee Chair Kyle Toth, CIVS Graduate Research Assistant Monika Singhal, CIVS Graduate Research Assistant Jay Polra, CIVS Director […]

On July 16, representatives from Merrillville Community School’s technology department and Superintendent visited CIVS. CIVS Senior Research Engineer Kyle Toth and CIVS Senior Research Scientist John “Jack” Moreland showcased CIVS projects focused in AR/VR and also showcased the crane simulator in the simulation lab. Kyle and Jack offered the school corporation their expertise and discussed […]

On July 14, ASM Materials Camp for Teachers had a great time at CIVS to explore new digital technologies and their applications in industries and education. CIVS Senior Research Engineer, Kyle Toth presented CIVS overview and projects in CIVS’s Immersive Theater. The teachers also were given demonstrations of AR and VR projects in the CIVS […]

On June 13, CIVS welcomed PNW’s Chancellor’s Advisory Board. CIVS Director Chenn Zhou gave a presentation to board members and senior leadership in the Immersive Theater about CIVS’s projects and successes highlighting an overview of CIVS, virtual blast furnace, and virtual crane training. Following her presentation, John “Jack” Moreland (CIVS Senior Research Scientist) and Dr. […]

On July 8-10, CIVS Associate Director for Operations Armin Silaen presented “Numerical Investigation of Hydrogen Fuel in Steel Reheating Furnace” at the ASME 2025 Summer Heat Transfer Conference in Westminster, CO. Co-authors of the paper include CIVS Graduate Research Assistants Abhishek Kolakotla, Xipeng Guo, Veronica Pitt-Payne, CIVS Senior Research Engineer Nick Walla, Gerdau’s Kevin Kondrat, Linde’s Joe […]

Eight Managers from Cleveland-Cliffs visited CIVS on June 11. The group, led by Stephen Palmer (Enterprise Director of Engineering), spent several hours to thoroughly review past and current projects conducted at CIVS & and Steel Manufacturing Simulation and Visualization Consortium (SMSVC). The topics covered Blast Furnace, DRI, EAF, Ladle, Reheating Furnace, Casting, Safety including AI […]

Congratulations to CIVS Graduate Research Assistant, Shiyu Wang, on successfully defending her Master’s Thesis “Numerical Simulation of AC/DC EAF Operations: Validation and Performance” on July 15. Shiyu will receive her MSME degree this summer. She started to conduct research at CIVS since her senior year and will continue to conduct her Ph.D. Thesis research at […]

CIVS Senior Research Engineer Kyle Toth and Senior Research Scientist John (Jack) Moreland presented the CIVS’s latest Digital Twin and VR/AR Projects at AIST Digital Transformation Forum 2022 which was held in the Westin Downtown Indianapolis on March 14th -16th,2022. This event is organized by AIST’s Electrical Applications/Sensors Subcommittee and Digitalization Applications Technology Committees. Kyle […]

The mechanical and civil engineering (MCE) department hosted two one-week summer camps.  On June 23 and July 7, approximately 40 middle and high school students visited CIVS to learn the state-of-the-art technologies in simulation and visualization and applications. CIVS Senior Research Scientist John “Jack” Moreland and Senior Research Engineer Kyle Toth presented an overview of […]