At the end of last week, Murmansk State Technical University hosted the qualifying stage of the Oil and Gas Business League of the International Engineering Case-In Championship, Russia's only federal case championship for fuel and energy and mineral resources complexes.
Opening the event, Boris Petrov, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at Murmansk State Technical University, stressed: "The Championship is a great opportunity to demonstrate competence, erudition, and teamwork."
Elmira Jamalova, a leading specialist at Gazprom Fleet LLC, noted the practical value of the Championship: "This is a great opportunity to plunge into technological and production processes."
Future engineers had to solve a case developed based on materials from Tatneft: to analyze the impact of the characteristics of deposits and production processes on the energy efficiency of the enterprise, to propose a set of measures to increase this indicator, as well as to assess the possible risks from their implementation.
The students' decisions were evaluated by an expert commission consisting of representatives of industry companies in the region: Gazprom Fleet LLC and JSC Arctic Marine Engineering and Geological Expeditions, as well as teachers of specialized disciplines of the university.
The StarLite team became the winner of the qualifying stage: students of Murmansk State Technical University Ksenia Britzka (team captain), Saleh Hashimov, Egor Zemlyanov and Ivan Sevostyanov. At the end of May 2016, it is this K4 team that will have to defend the honor of the university at the finals of the Championship in Moscow.
The International Engineering Championship "Case-In" consists of 77 qualifying stages, which will be held at the sites of 37 universities participating in the project.
In 4 months, the Championship will cover 3,000 students from 38 universities from more than 30 regions of Russia, as well as Kazakhstan and Mongolia. During the Championship, teams of students and postgraduates will offer solutions to engineering cases developed based on materials from leading industry companies in 5 areas (leagues): Electric power, Mining, Geological exploration, Oil and gas, Metallurgy. The final of the Championship will traditionally be held in Moscow on May 30-31, 2016.
At the Finals, the winning teams of the qualifying stages will compete for the title of the best engineering student teams, for offers of internships and internships in leading industry companies, as well as for participation in the summer educational programs "Mining School" (mining and geological exploration) and "Energy of Youth" (electric power industry).
The organizers of the Championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and the RNC CIGRE Non-Profit Partnership.
The Championship is being implemented in accordance with the Action Plan aimed at popularizing the working and engineering professions, approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 366-r dated March 5, 2015. The inclusion in the plan made the Championship an effective tool for transferring practical knowledge, experience and new competencies to future engineering specialists, as well as expanded opportunities for career guidance and popularization of engineering and technical education and attracting young specialists to the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.
"We have been supporting the Championship for four years and are pleased to note its successful development and entry into the international level. This year's project is particularly noteworthy, as it covered all key areas of the fuel and energy complex.: the oil, gas and coal industries, as well as the electric power industry," Alexander Novak, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, tells the participants of the 2016 Championship.
The national partners of the Championship are 5 federal ministries − the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, as well as Rosmolodezh and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives for the Promotion of New Projects.
The project is supported by the largest industry companies: JSC SUEK,
JSC SO UES, LLC SGK, JSC MHC EuroChem, IMC Montan, MICROMINE,
EvrazHolding LLC, Rosgeologiya JSC, Sverdlovsk Branch of PJSC T Plus,
JSC Yuzhuralzoloto, PJSC Tatneft, PJSC FGC UES, PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel, LLC Dasso System Geovia RUS.