SSTU students awarded a cup for participating in the CASE-IN

The Gagarin State Technical University Institute of Energy and Transport Systems presented awards to three 6th-year students of the specialty "Nuclear Power Plants: Design, Operation and Engineering" Anton Tishchenko, Andrey Ivoilochev, Mikhail Ermakov. At the CASE-IN championship, students competed in the "10 Kiloton" team.

The 10KILOTON team represented the Saratov Region and Gagarin State Technical University as the winner of the qualifying stage of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship in the Student League in the field of Electric Power Engineering in Saratov.

• Captain – Anton Tishchenko.
• The Scout – Andrey Ivoylochev.
• Analyst – Mikhail Ermakov.

The CASE-IN Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering problems among schoolchildren, students and young professionals. The objective of the championship is to attract the intellectual potential of young engineers to solving urgent practical tasks facing the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes of Russia today.

133 teams of students and young professionals from 44 cities of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan took part in the final tests. This year, the final of the CASE-IN championship was held in a mixed format: online and offline. Participants defended cases remotely in seven industry areas:

• mining, 
• geological exploration, 
• metallurgy, petrochemistry,
• oil and gas business,
• The digital atom,
• electric power industry.

The speakers and moderators were in Moscow at the NUST MISIS site. The championship is one of the projects of the presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities".

As part of the closing ceremony on September 11, 2020, several universities, including Gagarin State Technical University, were awarded in the special nomination "Digital Adaptation". The winners of the nomination were the universities that successfully organized the qualifying rounds and promptly responded to the change in the format of the events.

A source