10 student teams of Yekaterinburg – in the semifinals of the CASE-IN championship

The qualifying stage of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" in the fields of "Electric Power Industry", "Metallurgy", "Petrochemistry", "Digital Atom" and "Project Engineering" has been completed at Ural Federal University.

This year, the championship was held in a remote format. In one day, more than 200 students presented their solutions to real-world engineering problems related to the current production problems of various enterprises.

In the direction of "Petrochemistry", Valeria Balandina, Lilia Kalimullina, Daria Tikhomirova from the team "In sediment" (first place) and Veronika Anufrieva, Anton Botalov, Vitaly Krasilnikov, Andrey Pershin from the team "Khimichi" (second place) advanced to the semifinals. In the Metallurgy field, Natalia Bushueva, Mikhail Vedernikov, Andrey Zamyatin, Rustam Khakimov from the Adamantium team performed the best, while Larisa Kirillova, Sergey Korenevsky, Lyudmila Lobanova, Pavel Chernenky from the Rocket team took the second place. The In Team (Alexander Kynkurogov, Grigory Podosyan, Dmitry Trubkin, Semyon Hirnov) became the first in the field of "Project Engineering", in the second place — "Rikmor" (Ekaterina Akimova, Nikolai Ponomarev, Vadim Sukhonosov, Ivan Kuznetsov).

In the Digital Atom direction, the teams Error (first place), which included Alina Kalimullina, Elvina Kalimullina, Irina Kornilova, Daniil Shostin, and the Brotherhood of Cakes (second place), its participants Alfiya Sabitova, Yulia Khandrik, Pavel Ivantsov, made it to the semifinals. In the Electric Power Industry field, the first place was won by the Generation N team (Roman Kazantsev, Andrey Bramm, Irina Beloborodova, Andrey Bryukhov), the second place was taken by Viktor Zaverchinsky, Ekaterina Kramorova, Denis Ryzhenko, Elizaveta Syresina from the Zaryadye team.

All the teams that took the first and second places will represent UrFU in the semifinals, which will be held in early April, but already within the framework of the Ural Federal District.

The case study in the field of "Electric Power Industry" was provided by the partner of the Ural Energy Institute of UrFU, the Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System.

"This year's championship is united by a common theme"Sustainable development“. The participating teams of the Electric Power Industry have proposed promising areas of application of digital technologies necessary to achieve the goals of sustainable development of the distribution network company", — said Sergey Sarapulov, Director of the Ural Energy Institute.

Reference. The CASE-IN Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering cases among students, schoolchildren and young professionals. The goal 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 are the Reliable Change Foundation, the Youth Forum of Mining Leaders non-profit partnership, and AstraLogica LLC.

Ural Federal University (UrFU) is one of the leading universities in Russia with a hundred—year history. It is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the 2023 World Summer Student Games. In the Year of Science and Technology, he will take part in the competition under the Priority 2030 program. The university performs the functions of the project office of the Ural Interregional World-class Scientific and Educational Center (REC).

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