Blagoveshchensk hosted the engineering marathon of the CASE-IN championship

Engineering tasks that can help the development of the region and the country were solved by the participants of the qualifying stage of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". The competition was held at Amur State University. Students from different universities of the region gathered at several venues.

The ideas for the development of regional energy systems were presented by the participants of the Electric Power Industry direction. Ilya Kalashnikov's team considered the possibility of providing electricity to one of the plants under construction in Skovorodino. According to the researchers, gas can be used for this purpose.

"The gas turbines of the power plant are being built, there are units in it, they receive raw materials, that is, gas. Due to this, they generate electricity. It is already distributed to consumers in the active energy complex that are part of it.", — says Ilya Kalashnikov, an AmSU student.

Future geologists explored the most promising sites for exploration. In the 3D modeling program, they showed which minerals and at what depth they could lie there. And petrochemists have proposed solutions to increase the positive effect of using the products of the petrochemical cluster.

A new direction has appeared in the championship — "Project Engineering". In it, Danil Karnilov and like-minded people thought about using special technologies to monitor permafrost soils.

"The global trend is that the temperature on our planet is rising and it does not affect permafrost soils yet. But it can have an impact later and bring some results. If we carry out monitoring, it can lead to savings. Because we know that buildings will not be affected in any way by the risk of collapse or destruction.", — says the DalGAU student Danil Karnilov.

The participants prepared the projects for 10 days. They were evaluated remotely by engineers and researchers from leading Russian companies. Teachers performed this task in the classrooms.

"Of course, they used standard elements, standard approaches, but many tried to build technology with elements of authorship. Even the fact that some of the objects were repeated just emphasizes that they did the right thing. We really don't have many facilities in our region that can be found for the problems under consideration.", — Natalia Savina, Head of the Department of Energy at AmSU, noted.

The teams that took the first and second places in each direction will compete in the semifinals of the Far Eastern Federal District. And the best participants will go on internships at the largest universities in the country.

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