The SUEK-Kuzbass team is recognized as the best in Siberia in solving engineering cases

The Kuznetsk Coal Basin (CUBE) team, representing JSC SUEK-Kuzbass, became the winner of the qualifying stage among the enterprises of the Siberian Federal District of the International Engineering Championship "CASE IN" in the nomination "League of Young Specialists" for the second year in a row, according to the Communications and Communications Service of JSC SUEK-Kuzbass.

In 2020, 12 teams of leading enterprises and companies from Siberia took part in the qualifying stage. KUB, formed at the Personnel Training and Development Center (CPiRP), brought together four employees of SUEK-Kuzbass, Captain Vyacheslav Gavrik and Evgeny Pozdeev, who work in the management office, as well as Alexander Fadeev. (Komsomolets Mine Management) and Kirill Kalaev (Technological Communications).

The topic of the engineering case was "Technological modernization". The participants had to develop an integrated approach to the energy development of the Far Eastern region, highlighting the energy core of the industrial agglomeration. The peculiarity of this year's competition was that due to the coronavirus epidemic, the competitions were held remotely in the form of a webinar.

The young coal miners took Urgalugol JSC, a regional branch of SUEK, as the basis of their concept. Engineering solutions with economic calculations were proposed for the use of clean coal technology, the "digitalization" of the mine, and the modernization of the energy system. As a result, the CUBE team scored the overall highest score, becoming leaders in such criteria as technology, originality and novelty of the solution, and answers to expert questions. By the way, one of the members of the expert commission, consisting of representatives of government authorities, fuel and energy companies and universities, honored industry experts and case specialists, was Sergey Novosadov, Chief Power Engineer of JSC SUEK-Kuzbass. He noted that it was the well-thought-out technology of the solution and the ability to clearly convey it to the experts that distinguished the winners.

The silver medalist of the regional stage was the team of the Novosibirsk branch of SGK, and the bronze medal went to PJSC Tatneft.

Now the KUB team of SUEK-Kuzbass will participate in the final part of the championship at the federal level.

The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is a system of competitions for solving engineering cases among schoolchildren, students and young specialists in the fields of fuel and energy and mineral resources complexes. It is included in the TOP 15 Olympiads of the world according to the rating agency RAEX (RAEX-Analytics). The Championship is being implemented in accordance with the Action Plan aimed at popularizing the working and engineering professions, approved in 2015. CASE-IN is one of the projects of the presidential platform "Russia - the land of opportunities".

A source: NIA Kuzbass