The qualifying stage of the CASE-IN at BNTU

BNTU has become the venue for the qualifying stage of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship for the 4th time.

More than 20 students from the Belarusian National Technical University, Gomel State University named after Sukhoi, Belarusian State Technological University, who competed in the field of "Electric power Industry". This year's intellectual competitions were devoted to the technological modernization of the electric power industry. The case was a real production task formulated based on the problematic materials of real enterprises in the real sector.

Thus, the task in the direction of "Electric Power Industry" was the technological modernization of a specific power unit.

The championship began with a solemn online ceremony, which was conducted by the manager of the qualifying stage Agapashaeva Elvina Izzatovna:  — 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 of the CIS countries participated in the 2020 season. I hope that these guys who are playing in the student league today will become highly qualified specialists.

Experts, participants and guests of the championship were greeted by Evgeny Gennadievich Ponomarenko, Dean of the BNTU Faculty of Energy: — This is the fourth year that BNTU has been serving as a venue for the championship, and this year we also organized an online qualifying stage, — he stressed. — CASE-IN is developing every year, this is largely due to the well—chosen format of the competition - the solution of practice-oriented cases presented by enterprises. Students can try their hand at solving problems, and we have the opportunity to strengthen ties with the manufacturing sector. This factor is key for us as a technical faculty. We are confident that careful study of materials, project development and defense is an invaluable addition to practice-oriented education, which allows students to navigate the real world, evaluate their knowledge and consciously develop their potential in the future.

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 production associations, as well as representatives of the faculty of the BNTU Faculty. The order of the teams' performances was determined in advance by the draw.

The final results table looks like this:

Congratulations to the participants and guests of the championship.

A source: BNTU