Engineering students of the UMMC Technical University became the winners of the international engineering Championship

A team of female students from the UMMC Oh-Red Technical University, consisting of Maria Shibanova, Polina Gerasimova, Tatiana Kamyshan and team captain Ksenia Romanenko, won a prize in the All-Russian final of the student league of the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship in the field of Metallurgy. veved.ru in the press service of the industrial holding.

Our young female bachelors entered the top three in the final of the professional battle, along with recognized "legislators" in the field of metallurgy - a team of undergraduates from NUST MISIS and another "bison" of science - a team of undergraduates, postgraduates and bachelors from Lipetsk State Technical University.

The task of the final case presented our girls with a "surprise" with many unknowns - aluminum production. Not only was our university "copper" and the assignment lay outside their area of expertise, but it also represented a kind of "schedule for the day after tomorrow," because "Metallurgy of light and refractory metals" would only be taught to students next semester.
"After receiving the case, we initially experienced a state of mild stress. Aluminum production technology was like Malevich's "black square" for us. But in the process of exchanging views on the case, it became clear that just six months ago we were far from technological modernization of ferrovanadium production, and in the end we managed, if not 100%, then 99% accurately. So, we will think logically!", - Maria Shibanova shared her impressions.

It was logic that became the starting point for the Oh-Red team to learn the wisdom of aluminum production. Based on their personal strengths and weaknesses, the students assigned roles and "spheres of influence," which is super important in the context of on-line training and time constraints. After all, the girls were separated by hundreds and thousands of kilometers: Ksenia was studying at Mednogorsk Copper-Sulfur Combine LLC and was in her homeland in Mednogorsk, Orenburg region, Maria - from the Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant and lives in Chelyabinsk, Polina and Tatiana - from Uralelectromed JSC and only they could sometimes communicate face-to-face. In addition, it was necessary to eliminate duplication of functions, focus on finding the necessary information and analyzing it. Tatiana and Polina were engaged in the search and primary processing of information (they "dug" into monographs and textbooks, consulted with the Director of Science of TU UMMC and specialists of the technical director of JSC UMMC, called relevant enterprises), Maria became the analytical center in a single person, Ksenia made calculations. In addition, Maria wrote the script for the video presentation, organized the shooting, and then everyone arranged the presentation together.

Therefore, in the defense, according to eyewitnesses, the girls felt confident and understood what they were talking about. The criterion for the truth of their knowledge was competent and clear answers to questions.

"Before the final closing ceremony and the award ceremony, which was broadcast via YouTube, everyone was terribly worried, we were haunted by a double feeling. On the one hand, they understood that it was very difficult to get into the top three of the 11 leading universities in the country, but on the other, they dreamed of winning. And now a man-made miracle has happened!", said Ksenia Romanenko, captain of the Oh-Red team.
Congratulating the Oh-Red team from the bottom of his heart and, at the same time, summing up the results of the university students' participation in the 2020 CAC-IN championship in the fields of Mining and Metallurgy, Vyacheslav Lapin, Director of TU UGMK, said: "We are very pleased for our students, our university, and our company. After all, the brilliant performance of future metallurgists in the final of the CASE-IN championship proves that the training system at UMMC, which harmoniously combines the requirements of federal educational standards, the needs of production facilities, practice at enterprises, and mentoring by the company's leading specialists, is moving in the right direction. But there is a lot to strive for – for the "gold".

A source: Evening news