CIVS Contributions Noted as Science Coalition names Visclosky a ‘Champion of Science’
May 10, 2013The Science Coalition, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of more than 50 U.S. research universities that advocate for federal investment in scientific research has named U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky, D-Merrillville, a “Champion of Science.”
read more … CIVS Contributions Noted as Science Coalition names Visclosky a ‘Champion of Science’CIVS Student Takes 1st Place at AISTech 2013 Steel Conference
May 8, 2013Nicholas Walla, CIVS graduate assistant, won 1st Place at the 2013 AISTech (Association for Iron and Steel Technology) Conference, Graduate Student Poster Competition.
read more … CIVS Student Takes 1st Place at AISTech 2013 Steel ConferencePurdue Profiles: Chenn Zhou
May 7, 2013Growing up in a family of educators, Chenn Zhou dreamed of someday fulfilling a similar role. Now, as a professor of mechanical engineering, director for engineering outreach and director for the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) at Purdue Calumet, she does this on many levels and in many roles. Her focus as an educator, as a researcher and as an integral part of CIVS is to solve real-world problems. In each of her roles, Zhou does just that through leading, educating and collaborating with students, faculty, staff and members of external organizations and industries.
read more … Purdue Profiles: Chenn ZhouU.S. Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Office Highlights CIVS Blast Furnace Project
April 24, 2013A key component to the smelting process in iron making is the blast furnace (BF) where recent concerns have been raised about suitable coal supply, energy efficiency and emissions.
read more … U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Office Highlights CIVS Blast Furnace ProjectCIVS Provides Innovative Solutions Beyond Engineering
April 15, 2013This is a place where ideas and complexity come to life on the screen from the beauty of intricate French poetry to the grandeur of a massive blast furnace. For the uninformed, this could be just another Hollywood production reserved for Friday night pizza except for this important fact. This is “virtual reality” based upon a space-age science called computational fluid dynamics that studies structure, process and data of how things really work.
read more … CIVS Provides Innovative Solutions Beyond EngineeringCIVS Students Earn Three Awards at Research Day
April 12, 2013Five CIVS Students earned awards for three projects at the Purdue Calumet Student Research Day held on April 4th.
read more … CIVS Students Earn Three Awards at Research DayCreating a Culture of Continuous Improvement
April 8, 2013Andy Harshaw says steel companies need to promote a culture of continuous improvement. Focusing on the future and being able to foster innovation is critical to the industry’s survival, he believes.
read more … Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement2012 -2013 Co-Recipient of the Chanute Prize for Team Innovation
April 8, 2013Recognized for integrating visualization and simulation technologies to solve real world problems. CIVS has become a model for similar technology centers across the nation by its application-driven approach to discover innovative solutions, resulting in a savings of $30 million to Northwest Indiana businesses and industries.
read more … 2012 -2013 Co-Recipient of the Chanute Prize for Team InnovationNorthwest Indiana RDA uses CIVS to Visualize Regional Transformations
January 17, 2013The Regional Development Authority partnered with the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation at Purdue University Calumet to produce an eight-minute video highlighting the organization’s accomplishments to date
read more … Northwest Indiana RDA uses CIVS to Visualize Regional TransformationsUniversity Uses Cutting-Edge Simulation to Improve Industrial Processes
January 17, 2013A quick and economical way to solve industrial problems is Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), which has become widely accepted in many industries. In CFD modeling, a three-dimensional (3D) computer ‘model’ of process equipment, such as a boiler or furnace, is built from digital drawings of the plant, and the process is simulated using fundamental equations for fluid flow, combustion and heat transfer.
read more … University Uses Cutting-Edge Simulation to Improve Industrial ProcessesVirtual Innovation
December 20, 2012Imagine traveling through a blast furnace, watching as iron ore and coke descend through its chambers toward the bottom where pure molten iron collects. The 1600-degree temperatures obviously make that impossible, but it is possible to take a virtual tour, thanks to Chenn Zhou and her colleagues.
read more … Virtual InnovationRewarding Innovation
December 10, 2012Located on the PUC campus, the interdisciplinary 6,300-square-foot research center features a 70-seat theater for advanced research projects and 3-D virtual classrooms. On Nov. 29, the CIVS featured an open house to announce its award, a new master of science degree program, and to showcase the work done there.
read more … Rewarding InnovationCelebrating Innovation at Purdue Calumet
November 30, 2012Innovation will fuel economic development in the entire Calumet area, and universities are the epicenter for that creativity and economic boost, said Purdue University Calumet Chancellor Thomas Keon at Thursday’s Celebrating Innovation day at the Hammond campus.
read more … Celebrating Innovation at Purdue Calumet5th Annual AIST Midwest Chapter High School Engineering Seminar
November 26, 2012The fifth year of the AIST Midwest Chapter High School Engineering Seminar was held on Wednesday November 7, 2012 at Purdue University Calumet. Fifteen high schools attended; 200 students and 17 faculty members. The following High Schools were in attendance: Chesterton, Crown Point, East Chicago Central, Gavit, Griffith, Hammond, Hammond Academy of Science & Technology, Highland, Hobart, Lake Central, Lowell, Marquette, Morton, Munster, and Valparaiso.
read more … 5th Annual AIST Midwest Chapter High School Engineering SeminarPUC Group Earns Local Award for Innovation
November 25, 2012“Learning and innovation go hand in hand,” the late physicist and Episcopal priest William Pollard said. “The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.”
read more … PUC Group Earns Local Award for InnovationCelebration of Innovation on November 29th
November 15, 2012We are excited to announce a Celebration of Innovation through a number of events at the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS), Purdue University Calumet on Thursday, November 29, 2012
read more … Celebration of Innovation on November 29thHonoring Innovation
November 1, 2012People who do what they do because they love doing it don’t see themselves as doing anything special. At least that’s the case with the people chosen as Fellows of the Society of Innovators of Northwest Indiana for 2012.
read more … Honoring InnovationCIVS receives ‘Innovators’ honor
October 24, 2012Purdue Calumet’s entire CIVS (Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation) team of faculty, staff, administrators and students last week was named co-recipient of the 2012-13 Chanute Prize for Team Innovation, presented annually by Ivy Tech Community College Northwest and The Society of Innovators.
read more … CIVS receives ‘Innovators’ honorSociety of Innovators selects new members, fellows
October 19, 2012Ivy Tech Community College Northwest and The Society of Innovators announced the 2012-13 Class of Fellows, Chanute Prize recipients and Members to be inducted at the eighth annual Innovators Induction Ceremony tonight at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond.
read more … Society of Innovators selects new members, fellowsNew degree designed to address complex, 21st century workplace challenges
October 16, 2012Purdue Calumet’s Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation will serve as a laboratory for enrollees of the new master’s degree in modeling, simulation, and visualization (MSV).
read more … New degree designed to address complex, 21st century workplace challengesPurdue Calumet honors faculty/staff who attracted $12+ million for research
October 15, 2012HAMMOND | Purdue University Calumet’s Office of Research and Graduate Studies recently honored 25 faculty and staff members for attracting more than $12 million in externally sponsored grant funding to advance learning and applied research. Faculty and administrators who received grant funding of more than $100,000 per year between July 2010 and June 2012 were honored. The Office of Research and Graduate Studies serves to promote and advance excellence and innovation in sponsored programs and graduate education, while assisting research in graduate studies. “[These grants] provide funding and outstanding opportunities for student research and experiential learning, supporting faculty scholarly activities and engaging local industry and community,” Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies Chenn Qian Zhou said.
read more … Purdue Calumet honors faculty/staff who attracted $12+ million for researchHonorably Mentioned in Purdue Calumet’s Kudos Newsletter “CIVS Center Problem Solves”
October 10, 2012Dr. Chenn Zhou, our multi-talented Professor of Engineering serves as Director for the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation, along with her additional responsibilities as Director for Engineering Outreach and Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies. ―We have three missions that you can summarize in three key words: innovation, application and education. We train students on real world problems and help (businesses) to improve their processes. Basically, we create a virtual environment.
read more … Honorably Mentioned in Purdue Calumet’s Kudos Newsletter “CIVS Center Problem Solves”Society of Innovators announces finalists
September 20, 2012GARY | Ivy Tech Community College Northwest announced the 2012-13 finalist candidates for Fellows and the Chanute Prize for Team Innovation in The Society of Innovators of Northwest Indiana.
read more … Society of Innovators announces finalists67th International Congress ABM
September 19, 2012Dr. Chenn Zhou – Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Innovation Center for Visualization and Simulation at Purdue University Calumet (PUC), courtesy of Professor School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University in West Lafayette. Dr. Zhou completed her undergraduate programs (BS) and Masters (MS) at University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 1982 and 1984, respectively.
read more … 67th International Congress ABMGrad student Taifur Rahman honored in Academic Excellence by Purdue Calumet
September 13, 2012Md. Taifur Rahman, a native of Dhaka, Bangladesh, took home first place honors last spring from the AISTech 2012 – Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST) Conference in Atlanta, Ga. The Purdue Calumet graduate student placed highest in the Graduate Student Poster Contest for his research project titled, “Development and Application for Burden Distribution Model and Shaft Simulation.”
read more … Grad student Taifur Rahman honored in Academic Excellence by Purdue CalumetFeatured in The Times Business, Society Honors top Innovators for August
August 28, 2012Innovating the Future
August 6, 2012Dr. Chenn Zhou, interim associate vice chancellor for research and graduate studies and director of the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation at Purdue University Calumet, is already finding practical applications for virtual reality research going on at the campus. “Technology plays a key role in Northwest Indiana’s economy,” says Zhou. By focusing on how to integrate technology, how to apply its use and educating businesses about it, she is creating a platform for business expansion in Northwest Indiana…
read more … Innovating the FutureNew master’s program cutting edge
July 24, 2012Check out the benefits of the new MSV masters degree and how the Center plans to support MSV graduate students.
read more … New master’s program cutting edgeCIVS Center Problem Solves, featured in Kudos Newsletter
July 16, 2012Read the new edition of the Kudos newsletter to see what CIVS was featured for along with other university news.
read more … CIVS Center Problem Solves, featured in Kudos NewsletterProfessional Engineering Law and Ethics
July 10, 2012Find out what students will be taking away from this webinar course and how they can register.
read more … Professional Engineering Law and EthicsDue Diligence for Construction Related Projects (3.0 PDH)
July 9, 2012Find out what students will be taking away from the Due Diligence for Construction Related Projects course and how they can register.
read more … Due Diligence for Construction Related Projects (3.0 PDH)Workforce 2025
July 5, 2012Read up on what CIVS has been featured for in the summer edition of the Northwest Indiana Business quarterly.
read more … Workforce 2025Purdue Calumet’s blast furnace shaft simulator broke through as an innovative, international, application
July 2, 2012Review the grand event for the CIVS Technology Transfer Workshop and see what a few of our brightest engineering students presented to the American Iron and Steel Institution in four years of groundbreaking, extensive research.
read more … Purdue Calumet’s blast furnace shaft simulator broke through as an innovative, international, applicationPurdue Calumet graduate engineering student places first in international competition
May 29, 2012A Purdue University Calumet engineering graduate student earned first place in an international competition at the recent Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST) Conference held at Atlanta, Ga. Md Taifur Rahman of Dhaka, Bangladesh placed first in the Graduate Student Poster Contest for his research project titled, “Development and Application of Burden Distribution Model and Shaft Simulation Model for Blast Furnace.”
read more … Purdue Calumet graduate engineering student places first in international competitionCIVS student Aleksandr Shmagranoff recognized from Class of ’12
May 14, 2012Aleksandr Shmagranoff, Munster — It is unlikely there are many, if any, other mechanical engineering majors who can claim victory in PUC’s annual Intramural Fishing Contest (21-inch walleye in 2009), but his PUC experiences have been varied. He is an ArcelorMittal Scholarship recipient and an Association for Iron and Steel Technology presenter. He also is an award-winning, Undergraduate Student Research Days participant, having learned experientially at PUC’s Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation.
read more … CIVS student Aleksandr Shmagranoff recognized from Class of ’12CIVS Student Wins 1st Place at Steel Conference
May 8, 2012Purdue University Calumet graduate student, Md Taifur Rahman, won 1st Place at the 2012 AISTech Graduate Student Poster Contest for his project titled “Development and Application of Burden Distribution Model and Shaft Simulation Model for Blast Furnace”.
read more … CIVS Student Wins 1st Place at Steel ConferenceNavy Museum Kicks off Mission Ocean Educational Program
May 7, 2012On Friday, 27 April, and Tuesday, 1 May, the Mission Ocean program was inaugurated in the Cold War Gallery, at the National Navy Museum in Washington DC. One hundred-thirty students from two Prince William County schools were the first children to conduct undersea exploration missions, employing networked computers to operate their research submarine, while observing their sub’s search on a 3D video display. Investigating the continental shelf area in the Aleutian Islands, students used ocean temperature and sulfur dioxide measurements to locate an actively erupting volcano in the virtual Education Center at the Cold War Gallery, part of the National Navy Museum in Washington, D.C.
read more … Navy Museum Kicks off Mission Ocean Educational ProgramDr. Chenn Zhou presents the ‘Future in 3D’
May 3, 2012Visualizing the future in 3-D
April 27, 2012Purdue University Calumet’s Center for Innovation through Visualization & Simulation (CIVS) has saved local, national and international companies more than $30 million by analyzing problems and finding solutions using innovative technology. Read more about how CIVS has been able to deliver innovative solutions and how it’s students are involved.
read more … Visualizing the future in 3-D12 innovators from Northwest Indiana honored for their work
April 20, 2012HAMMOND | A diversity of innovation across Northwest Indiana was recognized Tuesday at the Indiana Welcome Center. The Pride & Pedestal: Pass the Torch of Innovation event introduced 12 innovators from the seven-county region who demonstrated their ingenuity. The event was sponsored by Ivy Tech Community College Northwest and the Society of Innovators of Northwest Indiana.
read more … 12 innovators from Northwest Indiana honored for their workLakeshore Chamber meeting to be at Purdue Cal CIVS
April 20, 2012HAMMOND | The Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce monthly lunch meeting will be April 26 at the Purdue University Calumet Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation, at the Powers Building, Room 123.
read more … Lakeshore Chamber meeting to be at Purdue Cal CIVSBoy Scouts Troop 276 visits PUC center to earn Computer Merit Badge
April 10, 2012The Boy Scouts of America Calumet Council Troop 276 from Lansing visited the Center for Innovation Through Visualization and Simulation on Monday at Purdue University Calumet in Hammond. The Scouts were earning their Computer Merit Badge.
read more … Boy Scouts Troop 276 visits PUC center to earn Computer Merit BadgeCIVS Students Present their project on 3-D Protein Visualization on Student Research Day
April 5, 2012On Student Research Day, 177 students presented their research topics. With 102 projects derived from the schools of: Engineering, Mathematics and Sciences, Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Management, Nursing, and Technology, we’re proud of our students for their efforts and team work.
read more … CIVS Students Present their project on 3-D Protein Visualization on Student Research DayNew degree at PUC designed to address complex, 21st century workplace challenges
April 4, 2012CIVS Students Win in Campus Research Days 2012
April 2, 2012Some 177 Purdue University Calumet students presented 102 scholarly research projects in the university’s annual Student Research Days on March 29, 2012 and March 30, 2012. Find out more here.
read more … CIVS Students Win in Campus Research Days 2012Visclosky receives economic development leadership award from international organization
March 22, 2012Congressman Pete Visclosky, of Indiana’s 1st District, received the 2011 Congressional Leadership in Economic Development Award from the International Economic Development Council (IEDC). Find out the whole story here.
read more … Visclosky receives economic development leadership award from international organizationCenter Serves as Innovative Problem Solver
March 1, 2012CIVS is proud to be featured in the March-April 2012 edition of BizVoice. The full article, written by Symone C. Skrzycki, is shared in the article.
read more … Center Serves as Innovative Problem SolverCIVS marches on with new projects and student opportunities
February 29, 2012CIVS featured in Chicago Sun-Times, Businesswomen get virtual journey with technology
February 15, 2012CIVS is proud to be featured in an article of the Chicago Sun-Times, courtesy of Post-Tribune correspondent, Karen Caffarini. You can read the full article here.
read more … CIVS featured in Chicago Sun-Times, Businesswomen get virtual journey with technologyVisualize the Savings
February 8, 2012CIVS is proud to be featured in the January/February 2012 edition of the Building Indiana magazine. Read the full article, written by David Wellman, here.
read more … Visualize the SavingsCIVS Provides Welcome Expansion and Increased Capabilities
February 7, 2012The $2.7 million CIVS provides welcome expansion and increased capability from its previous campus home. Focusing on innovation, application and education, CIVS combines simulation and visualization technologies with high performance computing to solve challenging problems affecting business, industry and society.
read more … CIVS Provides Welcome Expansion and Increased CapabilitiesProfessional Engineers’ Law & Ethics continuing ed course at PUC – additional course added – Register by March 2nd
January 17, 2012To meet demand, an additional session has been added for the continuing education course, Professional Engineering Law & Ethics. The original session is still scheduled for Thursday, February 23, from 1:00pm to 4:00pm at Purdue University Calumet. The new session is scheduled for Thursday, March 8, from 1:00pm to 4:00pm also at Purdue University Calumet. March 2 is the deadline to register for the new course. The course fee is $200, including materials. Seating is limited to the first 30 registrants.
read more … Professional Engineers’ Law & Ethics continuing ed course at PUC – additional course added – Register by March 2ndGary mayor taps 2 with experience to head commercial development
January 11, 2012GARY — Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson introduced another cadre of people on her team and with them her plans for streamlining the way the city does business with and for businesses.
read more … Gary mayor taps 2 with experience to head commercial developmentPurdue Calumet Delivers for U.S. Steel Canada
December 9, 2011When the fuel-injection system of its blast furnace failed frequently, U.S. Steel Canada turned to Purdue University Calumet’s Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation for help. As a result, the corporate steel giant avoided $8.5 million in projected annual expenses.
read more … Purdue Calumet Delivers for U.S. Steel CanadaMunster Engineering Professor Appointed to Iron and Steel Technology Foundation Board
December 6, 2011Chenn Zhou, Purdue Calumet professor of mechanical engineering and director of the university’s Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS), has been appointed to the Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST) Foundation Board of Trustees.
read more … Munster Engineering Professor Appointed to Iron and Steel Technology Foundation BoardPurdue Calumet Center Puts Research on Different Plane
December 6, 2011HAMMOND | Even the ribbon cutting was done in the third dimension. Purdue University Calumet Chancellor Thomas Keon wore 3-D glasses with about 75 audience members Friday morning and watched a simulation of scissors cutting a ribbon signifying the next stage in the growth of one of the university’s smart shops.
read more … Purdue Calumet Center Puts Research on Different PlaneCIVS Center Helps Re-Imagine a New Northwest Indiana
November 15, 2011HAMMOND, Ind. – Imagine Northwest Indiana as a best-in-class resource for cutting-edge solutions to high-tech problems, from trouble-shooting to “what if” scenarios. It’s not as far-fetched as you might think. The grand opening of the new Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation at Purdue University Calumet was an awakening. For those of us present, it demonstrated just how far this region has come in solving problems through advanced technology. Much has been written about the center and how it employs simulation and virtual reality visualization to get “inside” complicated structures.
read more … CIVS Center Helps Re-Imagine a New Northwest IndianaFuture Engineers from Local Schools Visit PUC & 3D Visualization Center
November 14, 2011Build a tower out of spaghetti and gumdrops? Then travel inside a 1000-degree furnace unscathed? These are just some of the highlights of the Engineering Open House on Saturday, November 12, 2011, hosted by the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) and the Departments of Engineering. One hundred and twenty high school seniors and family members attended this open house, which immediately followed the View Purdue Calumet event. It was a day full of information, hands-on activities, and opportunities to meet university officials, faculty members, and current students.
read more … Future Engineers from Local Schools Visit PUC & 3D Visualization CenterPUC Awards $20,600 in Research Grants to 62 Students
November 8, 2011Purdue Calumet’s Undergraduate Research Grant Program provides funding for student researchers across university academic units to conduct research with faculty mentors. The program is designed to help students gain insights about their anticipated career, as well as how to develop a project proposal and presentation.
read more … PUC Awards $20,600 in Research Grants to 62 StudentsAIST Foundation adds Zhou to Board of Trustees
November 7, 2011Dr. Chenn Zhou was recently appointed to the AIST Foundation Board of Trustees. The AIST Foundation is part of AIST, an international professional and technical association of professional and student members.
read more … AIST Foundation adds Zhou to Board of TrusteesSchool’s 3-D Virtual Labs Help NWI
October 17, 2011Purdue University Calumet civil engineering students are using the school’s new three-dimensional virtual laboratories to explore real solutions to logistical concerns facing Northwest Indiana.
read more … School’s 3-D Virtual Labs Help NWIInside Indiana Business Magazine, Highlights CIVS Research Center
October 13, 2011Virtual Learning Helps Civil Engineering Students Grasp Difficult Concepts
October 13, 2011Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Chandramouli Viswanathan and his students at Purdue Calumet use 3-D models to visualize problems related to ground water contamination. These modules were created using a North West Indiana Computational Grid (NWICG) grant support during summer 2010. This collaborative research team includes Dr. Viswanathan from Purdue Calumet, Dr. Merwade, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering from Purdue West Lafayette, Dr. Do, Assistant Professor from Purdue Calumet, Prof. Zhou, Director, CIVS and Mr. Moreland from CIVS.
read more … Virtual Learning Helps Civil Engineering Students Grasp Difficult ConceptsPurdue Calumet Invites Public to Oct. 21 Open House of Expanded Cutting-Edge Research Center
October 12, 2011HAMMOND, Ind. — Since it opened in 2009, Purdue University Calumet’s Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) has helped save companies more than $30 million in production and operating costs. It has provided Purdue Calumet students experiential learning opportunities to apply textbook knowledge in real world ways. It also has served effectively as a laboratory for faculty and students to apply research that benefits local industry and advances northwest Indiana.
read more … Purdue Calumet Invites Public to Oct. 21 Open House of Expanded Cutting-Edge Research CenterCIVS Research Improves Energy, Competitiveness, and Environment
May 11, 2011The steel industry’s Technology Roadmap Program (TRP) was a collaborative R&D effort jointly supported by the steel industry and the United States Department of Energy (DOE). The TRP program was designed to develop new technologies to save energy, increase competitiveness, and improve the environment.
read more … CIVS Research Improves Energy, Competitiveness, and EnvironmentCIVS Has Made Significant Economic Impact to Industries through Partnerships
May 10, 2011The Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) has established strong partnerships with industries to solve many real world problems. Such partnerships have not only provided great experiential learning opportunities to our students but also made significant economic impact to industries. The following are some examples:
read more … CIVS Has Made Significant Economic Impact to Industries through PartnershipsChancellor’s Breakfast Draws 150 Industry and Community Leaders
April 18, 2011Purdue University Calumet’s Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation draws one-hundred and fifty industry and community leaders for the Chancellor’s Breakfast. Attendees heard from industry who are currently using the center’s resources and research and how they have benefited through solutions provided by computational fluid dynamics and 3-D visualization to increase efficiencies and to achieve cost savings. The panelists included ArcelorMittal, NIPSCO, BP, Lazar Anode Technologies, LLC., U.S. Steel Canada, Inc. and economic development experts. Professor Zhou shows how collaboration between industry and Purdue Calumet can benefit the entire region.
read more … Chancellor’s Breakfast Draws 150 Industry and Community LeadersLocal schools serious players in economic development
April 12, 2011Kyle Telechan | The Times NIPSCO engineer Tim Wright, left, stands on the roof of the NIPSCO Bailly Generating Station building in Chesterton with Dui Huang, Bin Wu and Tom Roesel, who are students in Purdue University Calumet’s Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation. PUC students saved NIPSCO $1.9 million annually on a pollution control project
read more … Local schools serious players in economic developmentPUC Shows Off its Problem-Solving Skills
April 11, 2011By Chelsea Schneider Kirk cschneider@post-trib.com Apr 7, 2011 10:17AM
A Purdue University Calumet center, specializing in 3-D visualization and simulation research methods, is hoping to expand its business partnerships. The Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation helps businesses troubleshoot problems through the creation of virtual models and tools. The center was the subject of Wednesday’s Chancellor’s Breakfast at the college.read more … PUC Shows Off its Problem-Solving SkillsCIVS Students Win in Student Research Days
April 9, 2011Some 194 Purdue University Calumet students will present their research projects during Student Research Days Thursday (3/31) and Friday (4/1) in the Student Union & Library.
read more … CIVS Students Win in Student Research Days3-D Technology at Purdue Calumet CIVS Facility Aids Efficiency Projects
April 8, 2011By Bowdeya Tweh bowdeya.tweh@nwi.com, (219) 933-3316 | Posted: Wednesday, April 6, 2011 3:00 pm
Purdue University Calumet is working to enhance the local profile of a campus center that has a global reputation for leading research projects that have saved companies millions of dollars. At a breakfast presentation Wednesday, university personnel and representatives from companies in the region and abroad shared success stories and made a marketing pitch for the school’s Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation. The multidisciplinary center uses simulation techniques with 3-D visualization and virtual reality technologies. The center uses the technology to solve research problems at the university, business and community levels.read more … 3-D Technology at Purdue Calumet CIVS Facility Aids Efficiency ProjectsPurdue Calumet’s CIVS helps NIPSCO Bailly save $1.9 million
March 29, 2011Chalk up another substantial cost savings for a Northwest Indiana industry, thanks to assistance provided by Purdue University Calumet mechanical engineering students through the university’s Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS).
read more … Purdue Calumet’s CIVS helps NIPSCO Bailly save $1.9 millionTools for (Social) Network Analysis Visualization
March 22, 2011This seminar will discuss social network analysis as a research methodology that is used in a wide variety of fields from public health, from information technology, to librarianship, to management, and engineering. Based on theory from both mathematics and sociology; social network analysis is used to understand the relations people and organizations have with each other and how those relationships affect the participants, organizations, and society at large.
read more … Tools for (Social) Network Analysis VisualizationEngineering Student and Faculty Win Prestigious International Awards
March 14, 2011Twenty-six engineering students and four faculty and research staff members from Purdue University Calumet (PUC) attended the largest annual international steel conference, AISTech 2010 – The Iron & Steel Technology Conference and Exposition, held in Pittsburgh from May 3 to May 6. The event drew more than 5,600 participants.
read more … Engineering Student and Faculty Win Prestigious International AwardsPurdue Calumet Insight Winter 2011
February 15, 2011Within the huge realm of 21st century technology there is unprecedented learning opportunities for Purdue Calumet students. Across academic boundaries, the university is doing its part to prepare students for careers that demand proficiency in use of these new technologies. In fact, each of Purdue Calumet’s six undergraduate academic schools and its graduate program are enabling students to learn and become job ready through technological applications.
read more … Purdue Calumet Insight Winter 2011Calumet campus gets first large-scale supercomputer
January 28, 2011HAMMOND | Chenn Qian Zhou’s engineering students at Purdue University Calumet work on real-world problems from energy companies, the steel industry, refineries and vehicle parts manufacturers, nationally and internationally. They are working fast thanks to a supercomputer that was moved to make room for the Steele supercomputing cluster on Purdue’s West Lafayette campus.
read more … Calumet campus gets first large-scale supercomputerAISI Board Takes 3-D Tour-Virtual Blast Furnace
December 13, 2010AISI Board members were taken on an immersive 3-dimensional simulated tour of a virtual blast furnace thanks to Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) modeling technology developed by Purdue University Calumet under an ongoing AISI/Department of Energy (DOE) research grant. Donning 3-D glasses, viewers experience the Advanced Simulation and Virtual Reality Visualization for Steel Manufacturing exhibit by getting “inside” structures—including a blast furnace— to gain a better understand of the complex phenomena involved in the processes.
read more … AISI Board Takes 3-D Tour-Virtual Blast FurnacePurdue Calumet Receives Grant to Advance Wind Energy Education
December 13, 2010This year, PUC’s Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) received a federal grant of $749,853 tosupport the project Mixed Reality Simulators for Wind Energy Education. According to the press release, this project involves developing five wind simulators to train university students and professionals about wind energy.
read more … Purdue Calumet Receives Grant to Advance Wind Energy EducationITaP and Purdue Calumet partnership
December 10, 2010At Purdue University Calumet, Chenn Qian Zhou’s engineering students work on real-world problems from energy companies, the steel industry, refineries and vehicle parts manufacturers, among others — businesses around Indiana, the nation or the globe.
read more … ITaP and Purdue Calumet partnershipAssociation for Iron and Steel Technology Seminar
November 22, 2010The Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST) Midwest Chapter sponsored a one-day seminar at Purdue University Calumet on November 10th, 2010. The event was designed to reach high school juniors who have the potential and interest to pursue a college degree in the field of engineering. The AIST invited Lake and Porter County schools to participate in this one-day program. The morning session included speakers from the steel industry to promote various engineering disciplines and job opportunities available throughout Northwest Indiana. The afternoon was filled with student and industry networking, campus tours and a presentation by Center for Innovation through Visualization & Simulation discussing simulation and virtual reality and how this cutting edge technology creates a more immersive and more collaborative environment for engineering design and improvements.
read more … Association for Iron and Steel Technology SeminarPurdue Strengths Harnessed to Benefit Northern Indiana
November 15, 2010To help meet the Indiana Commission for Higher Education’s goal of creating more effective and efficient roles for the state’s regional university campuses, Purdue has announced an initiative to harness the capacity of its campuses to better support higher education and to power economic development across northern Indiana.
read more … Purdue Strengths Harnessed to Benefit Northern IndianaPurdue Calumet – key connection to Chilean mine rescue
November 8, 2010There is a strong Purdue University Calumet connection to the recent rescue of 33 Chilean miners trapped underground for more than two months. Chicago resident Krasimir Zahariev, who earned a master’s degree in engineering at Purdue Calumet in 2005, is a research engineer for the Drilling Technology Center (DTC) of Layne Christensen Company.
read more … Purdue Calumet – key connection to Chilean mine rescueSociety of Innovators for Northwest Indiana CIVS Banner
October 27, 2010CIVS Employment Opportunities
October 19, 2010Postdoctoral position is available for research in the area of Augmented Reality (AR) at The Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS), Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana.
read more … CIVS Employment OpportunitiesNumerical Simulation and Visualization for Industrial Projects
October 5, 2010You are cordially invited to attend “Numerical Simulation and Visualization for Industrial Projects” on Wednesday, October 6 from 11:00am – 12:00pm in Powers 108. This talk is part of the CIVS seminar series, presenting the latest trends in visualization and simulation to the PUC community.
read more … Numerical Simulation and Visualization for Industrial ProjectsA Brief History of 3-D & Virtual Reality
September 15, 2010Stereoscopic 3-D has received a lot of attention lately, strongly influenced by the entertainment industry. Additionally, Virtual Reality (VR) is increasingly being applied to more problems in various industries. This seminar will present an introduction to 3-D & VR, clarify various terminology such as 3D, 2.5D, 4D, RealD, and S3D, and present a timeline showing the history of 3-D and related technologies stretching from the 1800’s to present day 3D Televisions and VR devices.
read more … A Brief History of 3-D & Virtual RealityKicking off the Semester
September 8, 2010Purdue University Calumet graduate Xin Shi displays the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation at a convocation at Purdue University Calumet in Hammond.
read more … Kicking off the SemesterArcelorMittal-Leadership drives innovative solutions
September 8, 2010Supporting AcelorMittal’s Core business value of leadership often goes beyond the boundaries of our facilities. Through our College Partnership Program which promotes dialouge between AcrelorMittal employees, faculty, and students we help universities and colleges take a leadership role and bring innovative ideas and solutions to current steelmaking challenges.
read more … ArcelorMittal-Leadership drives innovative solutionsBP awards $50,000 to CIVS
August 25, 2010Continuing a partnership with Purdue University Calumet, BP has contributed $50,000 to the university’s Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS). The gift will support equipment acquisition and activity development at the Center, a multidisciplinary laboratory that combines advanced simulation techniques with 3-dimensional visualization and virtual reality technologies. The CIVS also provides a creative learning environment for students of engineering and other academic disciplines.
read more … BP awards $50,000 to CIVSPurdue Calumet Insight Online Fall 2009
August 2, 2010PUC’s new center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation troubleshoots for industry, offers unique learning experience for students.
read more … Purdue Calumet Insight Online Fall 2009Learn about simulation technology at business seminar July 28
July 19, 2010How to apply simulation and virtual reality techniques to business models is the focus of a free business seminar at Purdue University Calumet Wednesday, July 28. The 50-minute seminar will be held at 11 a.m. in the university’s Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS), Powers Computer Education Building 108. The program is especially intended for professionals in industries of engineering, biomedical science, health care, social sciences and education, according to Purdue Calumet CIVS Outreach Administrator Doreen Gonzalez-Gaboyan
read more … Learn about simulation technology at business seminar July 28
