St. Petersburg State Technical University "LETI" takes over the baton of the "CASE-IN" qualifying stages

As part of the qualifying stage of the IX International Engineering CASE-IN Championship at St. Petersburg State Technical University LETI, more than 70 students from universities in the Northwest will solve cases on sustainable development.

On March 31, the St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University LETI will host the qualifying stage of the Student League of the CASE-IN Championship in a remote format.

The competitions will be held in two areas – "Electric power industry" and "Digital Atom". 21 student teams from St. Petersburg State University of Technology (LETI), St. Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University) and the Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov will defend technological solutions developed in just 10 days to experts. The jury will include LETI teachers, representatives of industry scientific and educational organizations, leading specialists of quality system management services, technical and personnel departments of fuel and energy complex enterprises.

The Rector of St. Petersburg State Technical University "LETI" will address the participants of the qualifying stage with a welcoming speech Victor Nikolaevich Sheludko.

The 2021 Championship is dedicated to the single theme "Sustainable development". When solving engineering and management tasks, students will focus on achieving a balance of economic performance, environmental outcome and social consequences.

 "A case can have a large number of solutions – none of them is unambiguously correct or unambiguously incorrect. Of crucial importance are non-trivial thinking, technical literacy of the participants, the logic of the decision and its validity, the quality of the design and presentation. The successful performance of teams is based not only on engineering and economic knowledge, but also on soft skills – teamwork, project activity, and leadership skills. These competencies are formed or developed in the process of working on a case," said the head of the case laboratory at the Institute of Innovative Design and Technological Entrepreneurship of St. Petersburg State Technical University LETI Irina Leonidovna Borovskaya

In 2021, the competition will be held at 70 universities in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The final, which will bring together the best students from Russia and the CIS countries, will be held in Moscow at the end of May. The format of its implementation (face-to-face or remote) will depend on the epidemiological situation.

The winners of the championship will receive valuable prizes, the opportunity to complete internships at 18 leading fuel and energy companies, take part in All–Russian industry summer forums, as well as advantages for admission to master's and postgraduate studies at 20 partner universities of the championship.

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