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steeluniversity Challenge 2009/2010 Ready to Begin
Jan. 22, 2010 The fifth steeluniversity Challenge, aimed at university and college students and new employees in the steel-industry supply chain, will begin on January 27 and run for 24 hours. This online competition will use the steeluniversity.org website’s secondary steelmaking and plate rolling simulations, to make steel plate for a yellow goods (construction and agricultural equipment) application.
Participants can make an unlimited number of attempts to achieve the given specification at lowest total cost. In the last Challenge, 478 teams from 26 countries took part.
Two prizes will be awarded by the World Steel Association to the best teams in the Industry and Student categories. The results of the Challenge will be announced on February 1.
The Industry winner of the Challenge 2008 was a team from Baosteel, and the winning Student team was from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne.
The steeluniversity.org website, developed and sponsored by the World Steel Association, is an e-learning resource focused on all aspects of steel, including steelmaking technology and the multitude of steel applications. It provides highly interactive, game-like simulations of the major steelmaking processes in real time. The website’s resources are used by more than 100 steel companies and 700 universities worldwide. Many of its modules have been translated into other languages, including Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Korean, Spanish, Russian, German, and Japanese.
The World Steel Association (worldsteel) is one of the largest industry associations in the world, representing approximately 180 steel producers (including 19 of the world's 20 largest), national and regional steel industry associations, and steel research institutes. worldsteel members produce around 85% of the world's steel.