Polytechnic students have passed the online selection for the CASE-IN championship

Polytech has become a venue for the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship. 70 students of the flagship university competed in two industry areas – "Oil and gas business" and "Electric power industry". This year's intellectual competitions were devoted to technological modernization.

The championship began with a solemn online ceremony, which was opened by a representative of the Reliable Shift Foundation Irina Romanova.

– CASE-IN is not only a competition for solving engineering cases. This is a platform for discussing various issues related to the development of the fuel and energy and mineral resources complex," she said. – More than 7,000 students from 58 universities in Russia and the CIS countries participated in the 2020 season. I hope that these guys, who are playing in the student league today, will participate in the league of young professionals in the future.

On behalf of the flagship university, the experts, participants and guests of the championship were greeted by the Vice-Rector for Innovation Konstantin Savelyev.

–Polytech has been serving as a venue for the championship for the sixth year, and during the period of general self–isolation, we also organized a qualifying stage," he stressed. "The CASE–IN is developing every year, largely due to the well-chosen format of the competition – solving practice-oriented cases presented by customers. Students can try their hand at solving a real production problem, and we have the opportunity to strengthen ties with industrial partners. This factor is a key one for us, as a technical university, a flagship university. We are confident that careful study of materials, development and protection of the project is an invaluable addition to academic education, allowing students to navigate the real world, evaluate their knowledge and further consciously develop their potential.

Then the practical part of the championship started – the online defense of engineering case solutions by the participants, which the guys worked on for 10 days. Solutions to specific engineering problems were presented remotely using the Webinar platform. The expert commission included the heads and specialists of industry companies, as well as representatives of the faculty of the Polytechnic University.

Each case represented a real production task formulated based on materials from CASE-IN partner companies. Thus, the assignment for the Oil and Gas Business was developed with the participation of NOVATEK specialists and concerned the development of a hard-to-reach gas field. And the assignment in the field of "Electric Power Industry", which was based on the technological modernization of the energy interconnection of the CIS and Baltic countries, was prepared with the assistance of FGC UES PJSC.

Students of the Faculty of Petroleum Technology participated in the field of "Oil and gas business". The members of the "Right Decision" team became the leaders here Dmitry Pekhterev, Julia Rudneva, Egor Epishkin and Gore Shushanyan. The second place went to the Delo – Truba team, consisting of Nikita Kochetkov, Alexandra Kichigina and Valeria Avdeeva. The third were Artyom Kondratyuk, Maxim Sharonov, Roman Grishin and Nikita Sergeev – the NTF team.

Students of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering fought for victory in the field of "Electric power Industry". The Dispatcher's Application team and its members were named the champion. – Artyom Savelyev, Artemy Alexandrov, Denis Borisov and Eldar Gilmanov. The experts awarded the second place to the ORION team, its members – Victor Bashkov, Roman Kosolapushkin, Dmitry Dubovitskikh, Evgeny Folomeev. The third place went to the KBR 2.0 team, consisting of Kirill Polozov, Evgeniya Kukina, Kirill Dyatlov and Dmitry Nikitin.

Thus, the teams "Right Decision" and "Dispatch Request" won the right to represent Samara Polytechnic University in the finals of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship in Moscow.

The organizers of the championship are the Reliable Shift Foundation, the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and AstraLogica LLC. The competitions are held with the aim of popularizing engineering and technical education and attracting the most promising young specialists to the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes. The project is part of the Russia – Land of Opportunity platform, created on the initiative of the President of Russia.

A source: SamSTU