A team of Chelyabinsk students became the winner of the qualifying stage of the CASE-IN championship

The qualifying stage of the Student League of the IX International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" was held on the basis of Kazan State Power Engineering University in an online format.

The first place in the qualifying stage was taken by the "Six in Labor" team from South Ural State University - 5th year students of the Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering Alina Sharifullina, Sergey Shchukin, Rinat Magasumov, Alexey Antipin.

«The ASI directorate offered us to participate in this championship. The format of the cases seemed interesting to me, and I gladly agreed to participate. Difficulties arose at the stage of generating ideas: it seemed that you couldn't offer more than what was thought up and told in various sources, but as a team we were able to overcome this barrier and presented our solution to the experts.», – says a team member Sergey Shchukin.

KGEU has become a platform for the qualifying stage for solving fuel and energy problems. Future engineers solved cases in the areas of "Electric Power Industry", "Digital Atom" and "Project Engineering". Teams from Kazan State Energy University, South Ural State University, Kazan National Research Technological University and I.N. Ulyanov Chuvash State University took part in the competition. There were 15 teams in total.

The protection took place remotely on the Webinar platform. 10 days before the defense, the participants were sent a case, the decision had to be presented in the form of a report with a presentation in compliance with all the requirements of the championship. The decisions of the students and young specialists were evaluated by recognized industry experts (representatives of Gazprom Transgaz Kazan, NIPIGAZ), as well as representatives of the KGEU faculty.

After the performances, the jury members gave feedback. Now the guys will have a semi-final on April 16 in a remote format at the Ural Federal University named after B.N. Yeltsin. According to its results, the best teams will be selected to be invited to the intramural final in Moscow. The winners receive valuable prizes and gifts, as well as the opportunity to complete internships, internships, and jobs in industry companies.

«This is our first time participating in such a competition and we were pleasantly surprised to receive the results protocol. It wasn't easy to perform. We were afraid we wouldn't be able to tell our colleagues all our ideas in six minutes, but everything went great. It was nice to hear positive feedback and suggestions from the experts, which we will definitely take into account when preparing for the semi-finals.», – says Alina Sharifullina.

CASE-IN is one of the projects of the ANO "Russia – the Land of Opportunities" platform, an international competition system for solving engineering cases among students, schoolchildren and young professionals. The purpose of this championship is to popularize engineering and technical education and attract the most promising young specialists to the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes. The CASE-IN Student League is a scientific and practical competition consisting of full–time and part-time qualifying stages at universities. As part of the unified theme of the 2021 season, "Sustainable Development," more than 7,000 participants from 63 universities in Russia and the CIS countries presented their solutions to engineering cases.

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