On March 26, the qualifying stage of the IX season of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", one of the projects of the presidential platform "Russia – the Land of Opportunities", took place at the branch of the National Research University "MEI" in Volzhsky

The new season of the championship is dedicated to the theme of "Sustainable development". The cases are based on the most urgent tasks of the fuel and energy complex, the MSC and the nuclear industry, proposed by the partner companies of the championship.

Opening the event, Zhanna Lysakova, Deputy Director of the NRU MEI branch in Volzhsky, welcomed the participants and guests of the championship and stressed that it was not the first year that the MEI had become a venue for such a large-scale and significant event for technical universities.

28 student teams in the fields of "Electric Power Industry" presented their projects at the intellectual site of the MEI (this year the inventors had to solve problems on the topic "Sustainable development of the electric power industry: active energy complexes) and in the new direction of "Project Engineering" (digitalization in construction and design).

The work on project engineering was evaluated by an expert commission consisting of representatives of the branch of the National Research University "MEI" in Volzhsky, JSC "Volzhsky Pipe Plant", LLC "Energomashservice", OIMS, a branch of PJSC "Rosseti Yug" – Volgogradenergo. The expert commission on the Electric Power Industry included representatives of Rosseti Yug, Volgogradenergo for LES, Volgogragoblektro JSC, a branch of Rosseti Yug, Volgogradenergo, and the Moscow Branch of the Izolyator plant.

Volzhans (branch of the National Research University "MEI" in Volzhsky), Muscovites (NRU "MEI" in Moscow), Volgogradians (Volgograd State Agrarian University) and Kamyshans (Kamyshinsky Institute of Technology (branch)) took part in the championship of the MEI site. VolgSTU).

This year, the teams included freshmen along with undergraduates. After all, participation in the championship gives students a lot: the development of team skills, the search for information in the public domain and from specialized enterprises. And, according to the students, establishing business relationships with potential employers requires many human and professional qualities. In general, solving such cases has theoretical and practical significance both for students and for fuel and energy companies and industry.

Following the results of the defense, the experts noted the high ingenuity of the students. A wide variety of solutions were proposed using robotic complexes, artificial intelligence, drones and thermal imagers in the field of "Energy" and using microgeneration complexes, smart grids for energy supply to remote isolated facilities in the field of "Project Engineering".

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