"CASE-IN" at TIU: teams from four cities of Siberia and the Urals

The online qualifying stage of the student league of the VIII International CASE-IN Championship has begun at Tyumen Industrial University. It is attended by teams from universities in Tyumen, Tobolsk, Yekaterinburg and Kurgan. The guys perform tasks remotely, competing in the areas of "Oil and gas business", "Petrochemistry" and "Electric power industry".

The decision to hold the championship in correspondence (distance) format was made by the organizing committee in connection with the declaration by the World Health Organization of an emergency situation due to the outbreak of a new coronavirus infection, as well as taking into account the restrictions imposed in the region, including the organization and holding of sports, entertainment, public and other mass events, and the transition of universities to the remote learning mode.

The CASE-IN Championship is held in 57 universities in Russia and the CIS countries. During the qualifying stages in February-May 2020, more than ten thousand young engineers of fuel and energy and mineral resources complexes solve engineering cases on the unified theme of the Championship "Technological Modernization". TIU received more than 30 applications for the qualifying stage in the areas of "Petrochemistry", "Electric Power Industry" and "Oil and Gas business". Bachelors and undergraduates from Tyumen Industrial University, the TIU Branch in Tobolsk, Ural State Mining University, Kurgan and Tyumen State Universities compete with each other. After gaining access to the online platform, each of the participants will defend the projects in front of the jury members.

Experts in these areas are: Semyon Mulyavin, Professor of the Department of RANGM at TIU, Elena Deberdieva, Professor of the Department of Management in the Fuel and Energy Sectors at TIU; Evgeny Leonov, Dmitry Pautov, Guzel Khmara, Andrey Savchenkov, Olga Deryugina, Larisa Vazhenina, Irina Alexandrova, Evgeny Panikarovsky, Vladimir Berg and Anna Bystritskaya, associate professors at the flagship University; Gazprom, a leading engineer. Nedra" Yuri Dolgikh; Geologist of the Consulting Services Department of Schlumberger Ivan Zakharov; Pavel Ozolin, Head of the Gas Condensate Processing and Gas Chemistry Department at PJSC NOVATEK; Azamat Khabibullin, specialist at Tyumen Scientific Petroleum Center LLC; Alexander Belousov, Deputy Chief Technologist at the Surgut Condensate Stabilization Plant at Gazprom Pererabotka LLC; Yuri Deryugin, Chief Expert at SIBUR Tobolsk LLC; leading specialist at SIBUR LLC Tobolsk" Alina Pashkevich; Chief Engineer of the project "Division-Management of development projects of PIR" branch of KogalymNIPIneft LLC Vladimir Bilyk; Deputy Chief Engineer of the branch "Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System" — Southern Enterprise of Main Electric Networks Evgeny Ermolin; Head of the Technical Supervision Department of SUENCO JSC Nikolay Zhuridov; Head of the Operation Service and repair of substations branch of JSC ROSSETI Tyumen Tyumen electric networks Ivan Samokhvalov.

The results of the qualifying stage will be announced tomorrow evening. It should be noted that the best teams will be part of the TIU delegation, which will travel to the finals in Moscow in May 2020. There they will compete with teams from other universities in Russia and the CIS, and the winners will receive valuable prizes, the opportunity to participate in All-Russian industry summer forums, advantages in admission to graduate and postgraduate studies, and will also be able to complete internships at leading companies in the industry.

Reference

The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is a system of competitions for solving engineering cases among students, schoolchildren and young professionals. The purpose of the championship is to popularize engineering and technical education and attract the most promising young specialists to the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes. The student League "CASE-IN" is a scientific and practical competition consisting of full-time and part-time qualifying stages, where teams of 3-4 people from among university students and postgraduates solve an engineering case dedicated to the actual problems of a real enterprise. The winner of each qualifying stage is one team, which gets the right to participate in the final of the championship in Moscow.

The CASE-IN Championship was organized using a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society. The organizers are AstraLogica LLC, Reliable Shift Foundation, NP Youth Forum of Mining Leaders.

The organizer of the qualifying stage of the Student League of the VIII International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" at TIU is the Career Management Center for Interaction with Industrial Partners and monitoring the quality of education.

A source: TIU Press Service