10 Lipetsk student teams participated in the "CASE-IN" qualifying stage

The selection stage of the CASE-IN Championship was held at Lipetsk State Technical University.

The CASE-IN Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering cases for schoolchildren, students and young specialists in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes. The engineering competition is one of the projects of the ANO "Russia — the Land of Opportunities" platform.

The qualifying stage in the field of Metallurgy of the Student League was held in a full-time and part-time format on the basis of the university's "Boiling Point". The online students were welcomed by the Vice-Governor A.V. Yakutin, offline Chairman of the Council of Rectors of Universities of the Lipetsk region, First Vice—rector of LGTU A. K. Pogodaev.

Anatoly Vladimirovich wished the teams to successfully pass the test and present their projects.

The first Vice-rector noted that the university has been participating in the project since 2017, and during this time, students have adequately represented the region and repeatedly won their field. Anatoly Kiryanovich also wished the guys to reach the finals of the championship this year in order to once again show their high professional training.

10 university teams competed to reach the semifinals, which included future metallurgists, metal scientists, chemists, IT specialists and economists. For 10 days, the students reviewed the technological process of producing aluminum and adding alloying components to the alloy to obtain the required properties.

The teams presented their decisions face-to-face to an expert commission consisting of the faculty of LGTU and representatives of NLMK PJSC, chaired by Sergey Saltykov, Project Manager of the NLMK Research and Development Directorate. When evaluating the project, the jury took into account not only the technological basis, but also the novelty of the solution, the performance itself, economic and environmental indicators. Therefore, in addition to analysis and technology, the researchers evaluated proposals to reduce the weight and price of new conductors, and to reduce harmful emissions from the production of aluminum wire rod.

The technological solutions of the Polytechnic students were diverse. For example, the Futurama team proposed alloying aluminum alloys with scandium, and students from the Brains team reviewed a new calcium-based alloying system. The researchers of Modern Metals saw a solution to the problem in alloying an aluminum alloy with zirconium. The young researchers based their choice of alloying composition on various indicators: electrical conductivity, lightness, durability, corrosion resistance, cost-effectiveness, and others.

The winner of the qualifying stage will advance to the semifinals. Representatives of Russia and the CIS countries will meet in the grand final of the championship in Moscow. The winners of the Student League will receive a worthy award — a valuable prize from the organizers and partner companies, internships and internships in leading industry companies, participation in summer meetings and forums, as well as the opportunity to enroll on preferential terms in the master's and postgraduate programs of partner universities of the championship.

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