TSU GGF students won the final of the engineering CASE-IN championship

A team of students from the Faculty of Geology and Geography Tomsk State University Favorit won the finals of the CASE-IN 2020 international engineering championship in the field of Geological Exploration; the team of Colleagues from the Faculty of Chemistry of TSU also entered the finalists in the field of Petrochemistry, the university's press service reported on Friday.

Earlier it was reported that Case-in is the largest practice–oriented competition in Russia and the CIS countries for solving engineering cases among schoolchildren, students and young specialists from the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes. In 2019, the VII season of the Case-in Student League was held at Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU). In March 2020, the university held the qualifying stage of the championship.

According to the TSU press service, the final stage of the CASE-IN engineering championship was held remotely at the site of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (NUST MISIS) Research Technical University.

"A team of students from the TSU GGF Favorit has won the final stage of the international engineering CASE-IN championship in the field of Geological Exploration. Other "Colleagues" (CF) in the field of Petrochemistry also made it to the finals. In total, 133 student teams from all over Russia participated in the championship," the report says.

Participants from all over Russia solved the cases of ALROSA, SIBUR and other strategic partners of the championship, the press service reports.

"The championship is very important because the tasks in each area are given by large companies. Geologists, for example, solved the case from ALROSA, petrochemicals had a case from SIBUR. These cases are always real, and the solution should be as close to life as possible," Alexander Petelin, director of the TSU Worldkills Center, quotes the press service. 

Diamond Mountains

In the "Geological Exploration" section of this year's CASE-IN championship, participants had to choose the most promising site for the discovery of a kimberlite pipe (diamond deposit), and in the final, conduct a predictive assessment of the discovered kimberlite body. The GGF team coped brilliantly with the task, having developed three scenarios for the search and development of a kimberlite pipe at once.

"The painstakingly done work, confident defense and convincing answers to questions made a strong impression on the experts. It is especially impressive that the guys have just started their second year and, not yet having the full baggage of geological knowledge, were able to look more than competitive," Alexey Semiryakov, the curator of the Favorit team, quotes the press service.

They got into the bottle

The chemical case proposed by SIBUR was devoted to the topic of plastic waste recycling. The HF TSU team defended the idea of combining mechanical cleaning of PET bottles with chemical cleaning, which will avoid additional waste. Based on calculations, this method turned out to be beneficial both from a technological and economic point of view.

"I was once again convinced that participation in the case championships is a great boost to the student's development. Unfortunately, classical education is currently disconnected from real production tasks.… It is simply necessary to be able to apply your theoretical knowledge in practice," Karina Kurmanbaeva, the winner of the 2019 CASE–IN qualifying stage, the curator of the Colleagues team, is quoted as saying.

"I was once again convinced that participation in the case championships is a great boost to the student's development. Unfortunately, classical education is currently disconnected from real production tasks.… It is absolutely necessary to be able to apply your theoretical knowledge in practice," Karina Kurmanbaeva, the winner of the 2019 CASE–IN qualifying stage and the supervisor of the Colleagues team, is quoted as saying. 

The finalists of CASE-IN 2020 (both winners and participants of the final round) will be able not only to get an internship or internship at CASE-IN partner companies, but also to enroll in postgraduate or master's degree programs without entrance tests, the message emphasizes.

A source: RIA Tomsk