The qualifying round of the International Engineering Case-in Championship in the Electric Power Industry League was held in Kazan. The team consists of four undergraduates from Kazan State Power Engineering University (KGEU), intern specialists from the personnel reserve group of the branch of JSC SO UES ODE of the Middle Volga, who are undergoing an internship at the Branch of JSC SO UES RDU of Tatarstan, took the second place.
The system operator acts as a partner of the championship in the Electric Power Industry League and provides its own materials for the cases used in the tasks. The company's specialists are also on the jury of the qualifying stage of the competition. In total, 77 qualifying stages will be held in 2016 as part of the Case-in championship, which will be attended by 3,000 students from 38 specialized universities from more than 30 regions of Russia, as well as Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Teams of 2-4 people from among students, undergraduates and postgraduates of universities are formed to participate in the championship. During the qualifying stages, teams of undergraduates and postgraduates must solve engineering cases developed based on materials from leading industry companies in five areas (leagues): "Electric power industry", "Mining", "Geological exploration", "Oil and gas business", "Metallurgy".
For the first time, such competitions were held at KGEU in 2015. This year, 10 student teams participated in the regional selection. The boys were tasked with creating conditions for the development of a small settlement on the border with China through the organization of an energy supply system. According to the terms of the assignment, the village of Batakan in the Trans-Baikal Territory is remote from all major cities of the region (the nearest city is 140 kilometers away), there are power outages in it, and the participants of the championship must offer their own solution to the problem.
The results of the team performances were evaluated by an expert commission, which included teachers of the KGEU, representatives of the branch of JSC SO UES of the Republic of Tatarstan, JSC Grid Company, Kazanskaya CHPP-2, JSC Generating Company. According to the results of the regional stage, the solution of the Gigawatt team was recognized as the best. The second place was taken by the Prometheus team, which included undergraduates from KGEU, participants in the specialized training program of JSC SO UES – Sergey Kuksov, Airat Sharifullin, Nikita Sokolov, Albert Nigmatullin.
A source ODE to the Middle Volga