Ozersk students were among the winners of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN"

In mid-September, Moscow hosted the final of the International Engineering Championship "CASE—IN", the largest international competition system for solving engineering cases related to the development of enterprises, regions, and countries in the areas of fuel and energy and mineral resources complexes. The winners included a team from the Ozersk branch of the National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI", the university reported.

The OTI MEPhI SkillUp team consisting of fourth-year students of the specialty "Application and operation of automated systems for special purposes" passed the qualifying stage and performed in the direction of "Digital Atom".

During 10 competitive days, South Ural students developed a client-server automated information system with a web interface that supports the process of predictive maintenance and repair of software-controlled machines.

The system analyzes the telemetry data coming from the machines and generates emergency maintenance requests based on artificial intelligence algorithms. The system also implements the necessary business processes for scheduled repairs. The effect of the system implementation is provided, among other things, by a projected increase in machine load by 30%.

Economic calculations show that the project is effective, and its payback period is less than two years.During the defense of the work, the teams described the technological features of the software product and the economic effect of implementing the solution they developed.

The expert commission, which included representatives of Greenatom Joint Stock Company, N. L. Dukhov All-Russian Research Institute of Automation, National Bureau of Informatization Joint Stock Company, Tsifrum and Kristall Service Integration companies, assessed the novelty, validity and relevance of the proposed solution, the professionalism of the participants, the depth of study of the situation and the topic of the case. the relationship of theory with practice and the economic component.

According to the results of the final tests, the team from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Evgeny Semin, Pavel Voishchev, Vladislav Mikhalev and Alexander Minaev) entered the top three winners of the championship, taking second place.According to the captain of the team Evgenia Semina Having participated in a competition of this level and format for the first time, we managed to win thanks to the hard and well-coordinated work of each team member and a high level of training.

"The qualifying stage showed our strengths and weaknesses, which allowed us to correctly distribute the workload for preparing for the finals. We managed to put all the knowledge we gained at our native institute into practice: now we are even more ready for our future professional activities," Evgeny Semin shares his impressions.

As explained by the head of the team, Associate professor of the Department of Applied Mathematics Alexander Zubairov By the middle of the third year, software engineering students are already able to effectively participate in such serious international competitions. By this time, the guys already have sufficient engineering training.

"Their main task was not to develop an information system by itself, but primarily to study the subject area, study the global practice of solving the tasks described in the case, develop and implement their own innovative proposals for the case.

We also had to deal with machine learning algorithms, since the corresponding discipline will be taught for them in a year," said Alexander Zubairov.

The members of the winning team agreed that the experience of participating in the CASE-IN was very valuable, gave an impetus to further development and brought them closer to professional practice-oriented activities.

A source: Озерск.Ru