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worldsteel Announces steeluniversity Challenge World Champions
02/17/2012 - The World Steel Association (worldsteel) announced the sixth steeluniversity.org Challenge’s world champions: a team from Shougang Qiangang in China for the category for young steel industry employees, and a team from Universidade Federal do Ceara in Brazil for the student category.
The World Steel Association (worldsteel) announced the sixth steeluniversity.org Challenge’s new world champions, including a team from Shougang Qiangang in China that won in the category for young steel industry employees. A team from Universidade Federal do Ceara in Brazil won in the student category.
Lu Fei and Yu Chen of Shougang Qiangang were the champions in the industry category, and Helilton Morais Rego Lima Filho and Fernando Emerson Viana Sousa of the Universidade Federal do Ceará were the student champions.
The World Championship recently took place in Brussels among the regional champions from the first round held late last year. They were invited to the grand final and were given the task of refining an order of linepipe steel, as used for oil and gas distribution. The contestants had two hours to produce the steel at the minimum cost while maintaining the levels of impurities and inclusions within specification. The lowest cost achieved at the world championship was $12.70/tonne.
Dr. Edwin Basson, Director General of worldsteel, said: “The virtual steelmaking challenge is a unique competition that challenges the skills of young metallurgists from universities and steelmakers from around the world. More than 100 steel companies use steeluniversity.org and 50 of them have made it an integral part of their training programs. Students from over 400 universities worldwide train their skills using steeluniversity.org and many universities have included the simulations into their course work.”
The steeluniversity.org website is a free e-learning resource focused on all aspects of steel, including steelmaking technology and the multitude of steel applications. This online initiative is developed and sponsored by the World Steel Association.
The World Steel Association (worldsteel) is one of the largest and most dynamic industry associations in the world. It represents approximately 170 steel producers (including 17 of the world's 20 largest steel companies), national and regional steel industry associations, and steel research institutes. worldsteel members represent around 85% of world steel production.
