September 07, 2008

Results of IISI’s Virtual Steelmaking Challenge 2007

It is reported that students from South Korea POSTECH have won the steeluniversity.org Virtual Steelmaking Challenge. The team of Mr Hyunsoo Kim, Mr Sangmin Lee and Mr Daehee Woo beat hundreds of other competitors by posting a result of USD 26.07 overall cost per tonne.

The winning team in the Industry category was Mr Zhang Wen and Mr Zhao Gang from China’s Ansteel who were in fifth place overall.

The 2007 competition challenged entrants to refine and cast a beverage can grade of steel, specially introduced for the event. It said that 440 university and steel industry participants from 26 countries took part, making a total of almost 13,000 attempts over the 24 hour period of the Challenge.

The Virtual Steelmaking Challenge is IISI's annual competition for students and steel industry employees. It uses the steelmaking simulations on IISI's steeluniversity.org website.