Five student teams Irkutsk National Research Technical University We have passed the regional selection of the International Engineering Championship «Case-in». The event took place on March 1 inThe IRNTU Technopark. The final of the engineering case solving competition, which will be held in Moscow on May 30-31, awaits students.
The following team will participate in the final of the Electric Power Industry League "Spikelet"(students Denis Vorontsov, Anastasia Gudz, Ilya Tarasov and Mikhail Chernykh), and the mining league will be represented by a team "Diamond" (Tamara Belyaevskaya, Dmitry Zadorozhny, Kirill Lankin and Andrey Svistunov).
In the direction of geological exploration, a team will go to the Championship finals"The center of the earth" (Nazar Nazarov, Tatiana Zimina, Ekaterina Piskovets and Sergey Permyakov). The following teams were named finalists in the new areas of Metallurgy and Oil and Gas business "Diamond" (Alena Piavkina, Alina Kapustina, Olga Efremova and Vyacheslav Sofin) and "The Stakhanovites" (Nikita Ivanov, Ilya Sizov, Semyon Abdulmanov and Vladislav Cherkashin).
As noted by the organizer of the Championship, Director of the Reliable Change Foundation, Chairman of the Board of the Youth Forum of Mining Leaders Artem Korolev For some of the winners of the regional stage, this was their first experience in solving engineering cases. Experienced teams, which have been participating in the Championship for the third year, also competed in the mining league.
"Despite the experience we already have, all the teams learned something new today, gained useful skills, and strengthened the team spirit. All this is very important, because they have a serious and difficult task ahead of them – to adequately represent the university and the region at the final event, where the best of the best in the field of engineering case solving will demonstrate their knowledge.
I would like to note that the organization of the Championship at IRNTU deserves special attention, since only three universities dared to host the stages in all five leagues at the same time. At the same time, IRNIT managed to organize everything at the highest level, and I am pleased to see such a large number of participating teams," A. Korolev admitted.
The awarding ceremony was conducted by experts, chairmen of commissions for various leagues of the Championship, and the chief specialist of the Mining Planning Technology Department of Vostsibugol Company. Pavel Fedorko, General Director of Siberian Geological Company CJSC Vladimir Sklyarov, Director of the Institute of Energy of IRNTU Vadim Fedchishin. The winners of their profile leagues were also awarded by the Head of the Department of Metallurgy of Non-Ferrous Metals of IRNTU Nina Nemchinova and the chief specialist of the Project Implementation Department of JSC Taas-Yuryakh Neftegazodobycha Peter Alekseev.
According to V. Sklyarov, for him, participation in such a championship as chairman of the expert commission turned out to be his first experience: "I was pleasantly surprised by how the students of geology have changed. I graduated from Irkutsk Technical University 42 years ago. Six members of my family studied at this university, so I am well acquainted with the level of education at the university. Now students have become more innovative and sociable, without losing the savvy and determination that we had. I really hope that many students will come to work in our industry after graduation - we need such staff."
The expert P. Alekseev emphasized that JSC Rosneft holds such professional case-solving contests at a high level: "The Company organizes an internal championship in three stages, with the final one taking place in Moscow. Each time these events reveal some interesting non-standard solutions, which are then used in production.
As for the "Case-in" Championship in IRNTU, I saw one thing today an interesting suggestion in solving the case, which we mustabout let's remember and work on this technology at our enterprise.ai".
Chairman of the Expert Group Metallurgist commissionsI. N. Nemchinova said that her students, the participants of the "Case-in", showed themselves from an unexpected side: "I am confident in the high level of my students. However, despite this, they were able to surprise me by showing extraordinary independence, depth of approach and responsibility in solving cases. They deserve to be moved forward, and they will also be a priority when applying for a job. I hope that businesses will pay attention to their achievements in the Championship. I wish all the teams good luck in the final stage. Our university has already proved last year that it is possible to become the winner of the Championship, so strive only for victory."
As noted by the captain of the Earth Center team, the leader of the league's exploration stage. - Nazar Nazarov The victory was brought to them by an integrated approach and courage in making an unconventional decision .: "We were given 10 days to complete the competition task. The team includes specialists in economics, hydrogeology and surveying. In the assignment, the deposit was given, where the alleged mineralization of platinoids was found. When solving the problem, we used the analogy method, processing the information received and searching for similar situations. Having come to a certain decision, we designed the types of work, and made a justification for our version for them.
The originality of the decision was that all the teams tried in one way or another to justify the profitability of the project, but we did the opposite, immediately realizing that it was impractical to use the deposit in these economic conditions. For example, we drew an analogy with the Norilsk deposit, where the mineralization is approximately 150 million tons of ore, and ours, by convention, was almost 50 times less. We have prepared a convincing economic report, and the depth of study of the topic has greatly supported it. As a result, the experts liked our presentation the most."
Student of the Institute of Energy of IRNTU, captain of the Kolosok team, which won the stage of the league on electric power industry Ilya Tarasov He said that the experience gained in similar events last year helped to solve the case in the best way: "We participated in the stage of the All-Russian Championship for solving fuel and energy cases, and were also participants in the competition within the framework of Injpromfest.
In the task of supplying electricity to a remote village, we applied a proven solution for installing a thermal power plant. Due to the combined production, we were able to solve not only the problem of electricity supply, but also provided the settlement with heat. Our proposal was not original, but we were able to give it a clear justification, presented a plausible economic report and a high-quality presentation, which was noted by all the jury members."
I. Tarasov also stressed that the team has a thorough preparation ahead for the Championship finals, as it needs to perform no worse than last year's champions of the Energy4irk League of the IRNTU Institute of Energy.: "We have a lot of responsibility, everyone expects high results, so we will try not to let down the university's trust."
According to experts from all leagues of the "Case-in" Championship, most of the IRNTU teams presented good economic justifications when solving cases. This was made possible by the student research society. "Innovatika: Investment Engineering", headed by Professor of the Department of Industrial Enterprise Management V. Konyukhov. The students who belong to this society were part of the majority of the teams that participated in the regional stage at IRNTU. Three of them were the winners of the stage.
According to the materials http://www.istu.edu/news/22604/