CIVS had the pleasure of co-sponsoring a Distinguished Speaker Seminar with the PNW CS department on November 14. Shafkat Islam, Ph.D., PNW Assistant Professor of Computer Science, presented “Towards Robust & Secure AI Agents in Open-World” to CIVS and PNW students, staff, and faculty. His talk was very well received and concluded with a productive […]

Over 40 industry leaders, engineers, and researchers attended the AIST Cranes and Safety & Health committee meetings held at CIVS on October 28-29. CIVS Director Chenn Zhou and CIVS Associate Director for Research Ty Okosun gave an overview of CIVS/SMSVC and CIVS graduate students Qingyun Pu, Jay Polra, and Dhwanil Chauhan presented CIVS projects in […]

In October, U. S. Steel SVP – Sustainability and CTO Christian Gianni and other U. S. Steel leaders visited CIVS to review and discuss ongoing and future potential projects through the CIVS and SMSVC. Discussions included long-term blast furnace research and new initiatives such as IVBF, casting-rate sensing, AI & CFD-based Reduced Order Model (ROM), […]

Approximately 90+ industry collaborators and CIVS faculty, staff and students met at CIVS for the SMSVC Annual Meeting on November 5 and 6. The events included 1) technical presentations by CIVS staff and students in 6 topics (safety, ironmaking, EAF, Continuous Casting, Ladle and Reheating Furnace), 2) A Dinner Keynote, 3) Project Technical Committee meetings […]

On November 5, CIVS was honored to host a dinner keynote speech by U. S. Steel Senior Vice President for Sustainability and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Christian Gianni at the SMSVC Annual Meeting. He addressed a very important topic on “The Value of Partnerships” to more than 90 steel industry professionals, CIVS students, staff, faculty, […]

Thanks to Cleveland-Cliffs Indiana Harbor for hosting a plant tour for PNW Provost Marie Mora and other leaders on October 10th.  The visit started with a presentation, featuring an overview of the Company and the plant, followed by a virtual plant tour developed in collaboration between Indiana Harbor and CIVS.   An eye-opening tour provided exciting, first-hand experience on iron […]

On October 17th, CIVS research staff visited Gerdau at Monroe, MI as part of efforts for the Reheating Furnace project funded by DOE in collaboration with SMSVC member companies.   During the visit, they were able to get inside the furnace while it was down for maintenance, which gave first-hand experience on the furnace inner structures […]

On Wednesday, October 29, over 40 students had a wonderful opportunity to learn exciting AIST programs in the CIVS Immersive Theater. Courtney Young (AIST Student Program Administrator) talked about AIST scholarships, AIST Foundation Real Steel Video Contest, AISTech 2026, and available travel and training reimbursements — all designed to support and inspire the next generation […]

CIVS had the pleasure of co-sponsoring a Distinguished Speaker Seminar with the PNW MCE department on October 17. Dr. Sumedh Sharma, PNW Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, presented “Printing the Future: Structural Design and Visualization in Additive Construction” to CIVS and PNW students, staff, and faculty. His talk was very well received and provided an […]

Over 20 students from Hobart Middle School’s Computer Science class toured CIVS on October 14. CIVS Sr. Research Scientist John “Jack” Moreland discussed how computer science ties into simulation & visualization, and real-world applications like steel industry simulations and developing VR and virtual training. Students did demos in the Visualization lab on the crane simulator, […]