Samara will become the venue for the qualifying stage of the CASE-IN championship

The flagship University has once again become the venue for the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". This year, the unified theme of the competition tasks is "Sustainable development".

On March 18, the participants of the tournament will be able to test their skills in the traditional areas of the Polytechnic – oil and gas and electric power industry. In addition, for the first time, the university will host competitions in metallurgy, as well as in a new field opened this year – design engineering.

51 teams of about 200 people will compete for the victory at the site of the flagship university. So, 12 teams will perform in the metallurgy direction, 10 in project engineering, and 8 in oil and gas business. The most numerous section is the electric power industry, where 21 teams will demonstrate their knowledge and skills. Among the contestants are students of Samara Polytechnic University and its branches in Novokuibyshevsk and Syzran, Tolyatti State University, Siberian Federal University, North Caucasus Mining and Metallurgical Institute, Penza State University.

The participating teams will have to solve engineering cases and propose technological solutions for various industries. For example, the task for metallurgical students was prepared by the United Company RUSAL. The guys are researching aluminum alloys for use in electrically conductive tires of vehicles instead of copper conductors. The oil and gas case was developed based on the materials of PJSC Tatneft: the participants will create a project on the use of industrial gases to increase oil recovery and reduce the carbon footprint.

Two large–scale tasks await power engineers at once: JSC SO UES offers students to develop solutions for the development of regional energy systems, and PJSC FGC UES offers to find applications for digital technologies in the development of a distribution grid company. And during the design engineering competition, future builders and design engineers will evaluate the introduction of digital technologies for a liquefied natural gas plant under construction in permafrost conditions in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.

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