The Kuzbass branch of the Siberian Generating Company once again supported the qualifying stage of the International Engineering Championship "Case-in", held in Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU).
The Case-in International Engineering Championship is an educational project of the Reliable Shift Foundation, which aims to identify and support active, talented and motivated students and postgraduates in the energy and mining fields. At the face-to-face qualifying stages, which take place on the basis of participating universities (14 Russian universities have joined the League for Electric Power Engineering), teams of 4 students solve engineering cases — practical tasks based on a real or as close as possible to a real production situation, prepared based on materials from a real enterprise. An expert jury consisting of representatives of technical and personnel services of fuel and energy complex enterprises, industry scientific and educational organizations assess the solution of cases at the qualifying stage. The team of students who took the first place goes to the final of the championship in Moscow.
At the regional qualifying stage of the TPU championship, seven student teams presented their solutions to the "Energy Supply to remote consumers" case. In 10 days, each team drew up its own technical solution to create an efficient power supply scheme for the village of Batakan in the Trans-Baikal Territory, taking into account the construction of a new wood processing plant. The case also involved the identification of sources of heat generation with the calculation of the thermal load capacity of the settlement, the formation of a calendar schedule for the construction and commissioning of the energy supply system of the settlement.
The experts evaluated the technical and financial component of the projects proposed by the students, the use of innovative solutions, the design of presentations and the brightness of the presentation.
As a result, the winners were the guys from the TPU PowerSystems team, they were the ones who proposed the most competent technical solution to the problem, clearly and clearly justifying the costs and deadlines of the project. In May, the winners of the qualifying round will travel to Moscow, where they will represent TPU at the final stage of the championship.
"The winning students go from the regional stage to the minister's handshake, but the main thing is that they hone their public speaking skills, get into a professional environment, and establish contacts with future employers," said Artem Korolev, director of the Reliable Shift Foundation. — More than 80% of the finalists of the championship receive offers of internship, internship or employment in partner companies upon its completion, so this is a direct path to an industry company."
The next qualifying stage of the championship will be held on April 4 in Kemerovo, on the basis of Kuzbass State Technical University. SGK will also provide support to the Kuzbass stage of the international educational project, and the heads of the Kuzbass branch of the energy holding will join the expert commission.
According to the materials NIA