On Friday, May 23, CIVS welcomed Rudolf Moravec of U.S. Steel, to give a seminar to CIVS students and staff and PNW College of Engineering students. Rudolf’s presentation was very well received and was followed by a productive Q&A. His presentation was titled “Theory & Application of Continuous Casting Process at U.S. Steel”. Introduction to […]

On May 5-7, 17 CIVS staff and students delivered various technical presentations at the AISTech 2025 Conference in Nashville, TN, which is the major Annual International Iron & Steel Technology Conference and Exposition. The CIVS presentations included 13 technical presentations, 3 undergraduate oral presentations, and 14 graduate poster presentations in the topics of blast furnace, […]

Congratulations to Dr. Tyamo (Ty) Okosun, CIVS Associate Director for Research, on receiving the J.E. Johnson Jr. Award at AISTech 2025. Established in 1921 and supported by AIME from funds donated by Mrs. Margaret Hilles Johnson in memory of her husband, J.E. Johnson, Jr., a prominent engineer and author in the field of iron blast-furnace […]

Congratulations to CIVS Senior Research Engineer Kyle Toth on being selected to become the new AIST Safety and Health Committee Chair. Kyle was formerly the Vice Chair. The mission of the committee is to serve and support all AIST Technology Committees by providing and disseminating information on health and safety technologies through educational programs, assisting […]

On May 1, CIVS staff and students received a tour of the Linde Engineering Americas – Tonawanda facility in New York as part of collaboration for the DOE H2RF research project. They were able to observe a firing test of the flameless burner that is one of the main focuses of the H2RF project to […]

CIVS project “Hazard Recognition Scenario Builder for On-Site Customizable Virtual Training” was featured in the May Issue of Iron & Steel Technology. The technical paper was published in the category of Digitalization Applications. The highlighted project was the recipient of the 2023-2024 Digital Technologies for Steel Manufacturing Grant. Authors of the paper include CIVS Senior […]

What a learning experience my year as the Elliott Lecturer has been, and my trip to Purdue University NW Campus (PNW) in Hammond IN the 8th April exceeded expectations in many ways. I am very grateful for the mutual sharing opportunity this visit presented and ratification from some steel industry collaborators who were present at […]

CIVS students and staff attended AIST Midwest Chapter Dinners January-April. Over 20 students attended the dinners to network with industry professionals and hear important Keynote presentations. January Dinner Keynote: “Developments in Fiber Optic Measurements for Continuous Casting” presented by Dr. Ron O’Malley, F. Kenneth Iverson Chair Professor & Director, PSMRC, Missouri University of Science & […]

CIVS Blast Furnace research received the 2025 AIST Josef S. Kapitan Award – Ironmaking for the paper titled “The Integrated Virtual Blast Furnace: Enabling Physics-Based Operational Guidance.” This is the 9th best paper received in the last 20 years in this research topic. Authors of the paper include CIVS Associate Director for Research Ty Okosun, […]

On Thursday, April 17, over 20 CIVS research students and senior design students participated in poster presentations to showcase their projects during the 2025 PNW Day of Discovery in Alumni Hall. CIVS showcased 17 graduate research posters and 7 senior design posters. PNW Days of Discovery is a multidisciplinary research symposium organized by the Office of […]