New and returning CIVS students and staff participated in various campus and department events at the start of the Fall term. Events help to welcome new students and help them settle into their new home on campus. Returning students have the opportunity to reorient themselves as well as get acquainted with new students. These activities […]

CBF Forensics, a northwest Indiana forensic and education startup, has launched two new products: virtual reality (VR) programming for forensic crime scene training and a system to quantify the amount of THC in manufactured CBD and hemp products. CBF Forensics is the first forensic and education company to sell products based on Purdue University Northwest […]

On April 28, ArcelorMittal’s Global Health and Safety Day events included a demonstration of a CIVS virtual reality (VR) simulator that lets users experience fire safety scenarios. This simulator includes accurate sites and scenarios in a virtual environment.  It implements the industry standard PASS method (Pull the pin, Aim at the base of the flame, […]

Bloom Engineering is officially a new member of the Steel Manufacturing Simulation & Visualization Consortium (SMSVC). Mr. Dave Schalles, VP-Technical Services, will represent their company on the SMSVC Board. The post SMSVC Welcomes Bloom Engineering appeared first on Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS).

Congratulations to the 18 high school and community college teachers who completed the six-week NSF Research Experience for Teachers summer program at CIVS. At the end of the summer program, the teachers presented their research projects and how their research will be implemented in their course curriculum over the school year. In addition to carrying […]

Senior Research Engineer, Nicholas Walla presented at the Summer Heat Transfer Conference 2023 held in Washington DC, on July 10-12, 2023. Nick presented two papers during two separate sessions of the conference: “Hydrogen-Fueled Regenerative Burners in a Reheating Furnace” was presented during the Applications of Computational Heat Transfer II session. This paper details the process […]

This past June, CIVS attended the European Steel Technology and Application Days (ESTAD) conference in Dusseldorf, Germany to present exciting new results in steel research. The 6th European Steel Technology and Application Days (ESTAD) 2023 ran in parallel with the METEC Trade Fair. The topics presented included the latest research in the use of hydrogen […]

Former CIVS graduate research assistant John Rosser, joined Raytheon Technologies in Tucson, Arizona as a Systems Engineer II. John graduated with a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University Northwest. He conducted research at CIVS since the fall semester of his senior year. His many accomplishments include: Second Place in the Undergraduate Student […]

CIVS Researcher John Moreland presented at the annual American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conference in Baltimore, MD on June 28. The research poster focused on the 2022-23 year of the ongoing “Research Experiences for Teachers” program, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The 6-week summer program and follow-up academic-year activities give teachers from […]

Representatives from United States Steel Gary Works visited CIVS for a demonstration of the ongoing crane training simulator project in June. The simulator will allow workers to experience and work hands-on with a virtual version based on the crane(s) that they actually work on in the plant. This unique hands-on experience creates a way for […]