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 […]

NLMK invited CIVS to the Portage plant’s Family Day on June 28 to demonstrate the steel consortium’s latest developments. Jack Moreland (CIVS Senior Research Scientist) showcased the crane simulator. NLMK family members learned about crane controls and got to operate a virtual overhead crane. The event was attended by around 500 NLMK family members. Attendees […]

Dr. Chenn Zhou was invited to participate in a round table discussion on Process Design and Development at the DOE ARPAE ROSIE annual meeting in Washington, DC on June 9. Dr. Zhou made a presentation and answered questions on the use of advanced multiphysics simulation, visualization, and AI as enabling technologies with multiple CIVS project […]

On June 11, Rohit Kovvuri (CIVS Research Engineer) presented at the AIST Crane Symposium in Indianapolis, IN. His presentation was titled “Effective Training Solutions for New Crane Operators”. Co-authors include Kyle Toth (CIVS Senior Research Engineer), John Moreland (CIVS Senior Research Scientist), Chenn Zhou (CIVS Director), Henry Mitchell (U.S. Steel), and Jeffrey Maxfield (Charter Steel). […]

On June 3, CIVS members Shiyu Wang (Graduate RA), Shishir Aryal (Graduate RA), Sathvika Kottapalli (Graduate RA) and Orlando Ugarte (Research Scientist) visited the NLMK facility in Portage, IN to observe EAF operations. Steve Ryan, Manager of Process Technology, explained key activities performed by NLMK operators during the last EAF heat, before a down day. […]

CIVS Senior Research Scientist, John Moreland, participated in a ManuFuture event on May 14 at the Indiana Manufacturing Institute at Purdue West Lafayette. The event included speakers from various manufacturing companies, Purdue and other academic partners, and other organizations focused on advanced manufacturing technologies such as industrial applications of AI and IoT sensors. Breakout sessions […]

Thank you to Rafat Hirmiz and Martin Adendorff from Linde for hosting a testing site visit at their combustion lab in Munich, Germany for CIVS representatives Nick Walla (Senior Research Engineer) and Veronica Pitt-Payne (Student Research Assistant). Visitors also include representatives from Bloom Engineering Company, one of our SMSVC member companies. They are there to […]