Purdue University Calumet graduate student, Md Taifur Rahman, won 1st Place at the 2012 Association for Iron and Steel Technology Conference (AISTech) Graduate Student Poster Contest. The contest was held on Monday, May 7 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Taifur presented his project titled “Development and Application of Burden Distribution Model and Shaft Simulation Model for Blast Furnace” that was developed through his work at the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation along with co-authors Dong Fu, Yan Chen, and Dr. Chenn Zhou. The student competition is held annually at AISTech, an international conference which is steel’s premier technology event and North America’s largest steel exposition. The conference was attended by over 6,500 experts and professionals from all around the world.
CIVS Student, Md Taifur Rahman, and his poster at AISTech 2012.
