Welcome to the student awards page! Here you will find information about students who have won awards for CIVS projects. Click the underlined links to view the awards and our recipients.
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Student Paper Competition Awards
Global
- AIST 2013
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CIVS Student Takes 1st Place at AISTech 2013 Steel Conference
CIVS graduate assistant, Nicholas Walla, won 1st Place at the 2013 AISTech (Association for Iron and Steel Technology) Conference, Graduate Student Poster Competition. The competition was held on Monday, May 6 in Pittsburgh, PA. Nick presented his project titled “Life Prediction in Industrial Equipment” sponsored by U. S. Steel.
The student competition is held annually at AISTech, an international conference that is steel’s premier technical event and North America’s largest steel exposition. Over 123 students competed this year. More than 7,000 professionals attended the conference from all around the world. Nick is expecting to receive his Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering degree in December 2013. This is the second year in a row that a CIVS graduate student won first place.
CIVS Student, Nicholas Walla, standing next to his winning poster at AISTech 2013. - AIST 2012
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CIVS Student Wins 1st Place at Steel Conference
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.
- AIST 2011
- AIST 2011 Student Project Presentation Contest
- AIST 2010
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Engineering Student and Faculty Win Prestigious International Awards
Original Post Date: Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Twenty-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.
One junior ME student, Alek Shmagranoff won second place in the undergraduate student research competition and received a $1,000 prize. His presentation was entitled “Three Dimensional Simulation and Design of a Mixing Tank.” Alex graduated from Munster High School and has participated in undergraduate research since his freshman year. Other students from PUC who participated in the competition were Tom Roesel from Illinois, and Song Zhang from China.
Prof. Chenn Q. Zhou was honored with the Brimacombe Memorial Lecture Award. This award is given on a biannual basis. The award states that “It is presented in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in the science and technology of iron and steel manufacturing and is awarded to those rare individuals who exhibit Dr. Brimacombe’s dedication and profound effect on people.” According to Prof. Harvey Abramowitz, “receiving this award places Dr. Zhou at the forefront of the process metallurgy profession, and it recognizes the award recipient as being a world leader in the steel industry.” Dr. Zhou’s keynote lecture on “Visualizing the future of steel manufacturing” began the conference on Monday and gave more than 1000 attendees a first-hand look at how virtual reality visualization and simulation technology can spur innovation.
The students, all members of the Material Advantage Chapter at PUC, were supported by Prof. Harvey Abramowitz from his AIST foundation professor grant for this travel.
- LSAMP 2009
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Student received the first place in LSAMP Research Conference
Phillip Mann, a Junior in Mechanical Engineering, received first place for his oral presentation at the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Conference “Where Research Becomes Reality” held November 7, 2009 at Purdue in West Lafayette. Philip’s presentation CFD Analysis of the #4 Ultraformer Reactor (4UFD-7) at Whiting was outstanding! Congratulations!
University
- Student Research Day 2013
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CIVS Student Research Day 2013 Winners
1st Place
Undergraduate Oral
Danko Andric, Jinchun Li, Xiaoxiao Zhang – CFD and VR Study of NIPSCO Unity 8 Decomposition Chamber
3rd Place (Tie)
Graduate Poster
Xingjian Chen – Optimization of an urea decomposition chamber using CDF and VR
3rd Place (Tie)
Graduate Poster
Xiaoxi Lou – Numerical Optimization of a QBOP Vessel for Minimizing Kidney Formation
- Student Research Day 2012
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CIVS Students Win in Campus Research Days 2012
Some 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.
Undergraduate student research is one of several engaged learning components of Purdue Calumet’s innovative, experiential learning initiative, required of all undergraduate students.
Student Research Days seeks to promote and encourage opportunities for students to learn through discovery with faculty mentors and presented what they learned through their research to the campus community.
Enrollees of Purdue Calumet’s Schools of Engineering, Mathematics and Science; Liberal Arts and Social Sciences; Management; Nursing; and Technology offered a written summary and an oral or poster presentation of their research.
A total of 20 CIVS projects (10 posters, 10 oral presentations) were presented by 30 students (13 undergraduate, 17 graduate) during the two-day SRD event. (Research projects were evaluated by faculty judges. First, second and third place categorical winners receive cash awards. Below are CIVS student winners:
Graduate Oral Presentation
- · 1st Place-Tyamo Okosun
Title: “Examination of Utility Scale Wind Turbine Wakes”
- · 2nd Place-Nick Walla and Sanjit Basak
Title: “Numerical Simulation of the PUC eddyGTTM Wind Turbine”
Graduate Poster Presentation
- · 1st Place-Jiaxin Hu
Title: “CFD Study of Unit 18 FGD Inlet Duct”
- · 3rd Place-Simin Pang
Title: “CFD Simulation of a Batch Anneal Furnace”
- · 1st Place-Tyamo Okosun
- Student Research Day 2011
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CIVS Students Win in Student Research Days
1st Place
Undergraduate Oral
Joann Holmen, Nan Yan, Fan Zhang Correspondences: Translating Senses from Poetry to Virtual Reality
1st Place
Graduate Poster
Site Guo Virtual Reality System for Solute Transport in Groundwater
3rd Place
Undergraduate Poster
Xianyu Wu, Tianyu Meng Simulation and Virtual Reality Visualization of a Steel Casting Ladle
3rd Place
Undergraduate Oral
Xiaoxi Lou, Cong Zhao CFD Modeling of an Industrial Boiler
Some 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.
This event, open to all Purdue Calumet students, focuses on student research opportunities conducted with faculty mentors on campus.
Presentation viewing is open to the public and will feature 126 student projects from all six academic schools of study at Purdue Calumet. Presentation of the projects consists of a written summary and an oral or poster display.
“Student Research Days aim to promote a culture of research activities beyond the classroom,” Purdue Calumet Professor and Director of Student Research Jin Lu said. “We are glad to see increasing participation over the past few years in student research, which constitutes an integral component of the experiential learning initiative at Purdue Calumet.”
Student Research Days projects are evaluated by faculty judges selected by the Purdue Calumet Research Board based on a written summary and the presentation. Three awards will be presented for each of the following categories: Graduate Oral, Graduate Poster, Undergraduate Oral and Undergraduate Poster. First, second and third place winners will be awarded $400, $250 and $100, respectively.
Titles of School of Nursing student research projects include: “A Tool for Preventing Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections” and “To Prevent, You Must Implement! Pressure Ulcer Prevention.”
Among School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences student projects are: “The Role of Alcohol in the Sexual Satisfaction of Young Adults: A Link between Attachment and Commitment?” and “The Intergenerational Transmission of Marital Expectations and Subsequent Relationship Satisfaction.”
Student projects from the School of Education include “Teacher’s Perspectives.” From the School of Management, students will research on such topics as “Efficiency of Lake County Government” and “The Rise of Plagiarism on College Campuses over the Past 10 Years.”
Projects from the School of Engineering, Mathematics and Science include “Data Mining in Water Quality” and “Drilling Rig Mast Structure Analysis.” School of Technology students will present such projects as “Supply Chain Management for a Steak Served in a Restaurant” and “Oxygen Diffusion through Concrete by Electrochemical Methods.”
- Sigma Xi
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Sigma Xi Student Research Awards
ME Award – Nick Walla
Title: “Simulation of Wind Turbine”CIVS Award – Steve Dubec
Title: “Protein Visualization for Education”
Student Research Grants
- Undergraduate Research Award 2011
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Undergraduate Research Grants 2011
Below are our undergraduate research grant awardees.
Shiye Hu, Tenghao Wang, Xinwei Zhuang
Title: “Development of Virtual Pollutants Control System in a Power Plant Using Numerical Simulation and Virtual Reality Visualization”
Mentor: Professor Chenn ZhouXingjian Chen, Jiabao Liu, Qingyuan Liu
Title: “Virtual Model for the Demonstration of Flow Characteristics of the Condensate and Feed Water System in a Power Plant”
Mentor: Professor Chenn ZhouTianwei Wang
Title: “Experimental Study and Numerical Simulation of Liquid Level in the Blast Furnace Hearth”
Mentor: Professor Chenn Zhou
