Today, on March 22, one of the 77 qualifying stages of the international engineering CASE-IN championship took place in Chelyabinsk. The event was held at the South Ural State University, the correspondent of the Access News Agency reports.
It should be noted that the championship is being held for the fourth year. If 500 people participated in the event for the first time, then more than 3 thousand children are expected today.
"Energy is a budget–forming industry in Russia and all the advanced countries of the world, therefore, huge responsibility lies on the shoulders of the contest participants and can only be borne by professionals who are trained by the university's energy faculty. The championship promotes the development of creative abilities, and energy is becoming intellectual today. The skills that the participants will gain at the championship will play a big role in their future activities," said Sergey Ganzha, Dean of the SUSU Faculty of Energy.
According to Andrey Keller, Vice-Rector for Strategic Development at SUSU, the field of energy training and specialists in this field is one of the strongest at SUSU in terms of education and science. Seven teams of university power engineering students took part in the qualifying stage of the All-Russian Case Solving Championship.
Ten days before the qualifying stage, the conditions of the case were sent to the teams. All the teams received one task – to develop an energy supply plan for the village of Batakan in the Trans-Baikal Territory with a population of up to 600 inhabitants. The case gave a detailed description of the settlement. Each team was given six minutes to defend the project.
The energy proposals of the guys were evaluated by experts who solve similar problems almost every day. The winners of the qualifying stage will go to the finals of the competition, which will be held in Moscow on May 30 and 31. The All-Russian Fuel and Energy Case Solving Championship is part of the international Case-in project.