The Mayor of Voronezh welcomed the participants of the "CASE-IN" qualifying stage

The qualifying stage of the IX International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", which is part of the presidential platform "Russia - the land of Opportunities", was held at the Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies in a face-to-face and remote format.

The strategic partner was SIBUR, which developed a case study in the field of Petrochemistry for the participating teams.

This year, 9 teams of VGUIT students from different fields of study competed for reaching the semifinals, including chemical technologists, environmentalists, economists and others.

The rector opened the event. Vasily Popov:

«This is not the first time that we have hosted the CASE-IN championship. It is a universal platform for student science cooperation and the generation of new ideas for technology improvement at the enterprises of the large petrochemical complex SIBUR.

The Mayor of Voronezh greeted the participants. Vadim Kstenin:

"For me personally, engineering is the most outstanding profession, I myself went from an engineer at an oil supply company to a manager. Currently, the interest of young people in engineering and technology is gradually increasing in the region, which indicates the prospects of the profession in the future, as well as ensures the sustainable development of the region's economy."

The team defended their case decisions strictly according to the regulations before a competent jury, which included university professors, representatives of industrial enterprises of the city and the country, and employees of SIBUR.
This year, the tasks for the students concerned the sustainable development of the company, the search for alternative technologies for petrochemical production that bring economic benefits and reduce the impact on the environment.

One of the participants of the championship from the Chemical Trio team, a student of the Xm–192 group Olga Bogolepova shared her impressions of the event.:

"This is the third time I have participated in the engineering championship. This year, the Sustainable Development case was devoted to the analysis of the SIBUR company's product portfolio, existing technologies and their improvement. In particular, our team has proposed a new technology for capturing greenhouse gases in the production of rubber used to create "green tires". We suggested using initiation systems and a modification when obtaining this type of rubber. We hope that our engineering solution will not remain on the sidelines and will be of interest to experts."

The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering cases among students, schoolchildren and young professionals. The purpose of the championship is to popularize engineering and technical education and attract the most promising young specialists to the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes. The organizers of the Championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and AstraLogica LLC.
The co-organizer of the Electric Power Industry direction of the CASE−IN Student League is the Association "Russian National Committee of the International Council for Large High Voltage Electrical Systems", the co-organizer of the Mining and Geological Exploration directions is the Interregional Public Organization "Academy of Mining Sciences". The co-organizer of the League of Young Specialists is the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Center for Assistance to Young Specialists".

The championship is supported by the leading companies of the Fuel and energy Complex and MSK of Russia: JSC SO UES, JSC ALROSA, Rosatom State Corporation, PJSC RusHydro, PJSC FGC UES, PJSC SIBUR Holding, PJSC Tatneft, JSC NIPIGAZ, LLC Siberian Generating Company, LLC IBM Montan, Siberian Anthracite JSC, Mycromine Rus LLC, Raspadskaya Coal Company LLC, Prosoft Systems LLC, Yakutsk Fuel and Energy Company PJSC, EvrazHolding LLC.

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