The qualifying round of the International Engineering Case Solving Championship in the Electric Power Industry League took place in Stavropol. Three students of the North Caucasus Federal University (NCFU), two of whom are participants in the specialized training program of JSC SO UES, became the winners of the regional stage and will represent the Stavropol Territory in the finals of the Case-in championship at the end of May 2016 in Moscow.
The system operator acts as a partner of the championship in the Electric Power Industry League, providing its own materials for the cases used in the tasks. The company's specialists also joined the jury of the qualifying stage of the competition. Two of the three winners of the regional qualifying round are participants in the educational program for the training of energy specialists of the foundation. "Reliable shift." As part of the project of the School – University – Enterprise Foundation, NCFU has organized the training of undergraduates in accordance with the specialized program of JSC SO UES.
Representatives of Stavropol authorities, NCFU administration, and energy companies addressed the participants of the competition with words of farewell. "In the near future, you will have to work and prove your professionalism at industry enterprises, and now you get a unique opportunity to prove yourself at the only engineering case championship in Russia," said Vitaly Shulzhenko, First Deputy Minister of Energy, Industry and Communications of the region, in his welcoming address.
Five student teams participating in the regional selection received a case assignment on energy supply, which requires a practical engineering solution. The guys had to present their vision of modernizing the heat and power supply of a Siberian village, to the worn-out networks of which a factory under construction wants to connect. As a result, the decision of the Dielectrics team was recognized as the best, which included: Svetlana Kostyukova, a master's student, participant in the special training program of JSC SO UES, Kirill Kostyukov, a 4th-year student, and Olga Rybasova, a graduate student of the special training program of JSC SO UES.
In the near future, the qualifying stages of the championship in the Electric Power Industry League will be held at other partner universities of JSC SO UES.
The Case-In Engineering Championship is the successor of the All-Russian Mining Case Solving Championship, held in 2013 and 2014, and the All-Russian Fuel and Energy Case Solving Championship, held in 2015. This year, the championship has received the status of an international one. Competitions are held in five leagues: electric power industry, mining, geological exploration, metallurgy, oil and gas business. In 2016, students from 38 universities from more than 30 regions of Russia, as well as from Kazakhstan and Mongolia, will take part in them.
The organizers of the championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and the Non-Profit Partnership RNC CIGRE. The event is supported by five federal ministries − the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, as well as Rosmolodezh and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects.
According to the materials: System Operator