Two student teams from Lipetsk are in the final of the CASE-IN championship

On April 13, 2021, the first semi-final of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" was held. Two teams from Lipetsk State Technical University took part in it.

The teams of Metallica and Modern Metals University successfully passed the qualifying stage of the Metallurgy championship and reached the semifinals.

This year's case was developed based on the materials The United RUSAL Company is a leading company in the global aluminum industry and the largest producer of aluminum with a low carbon footprint. The case study is devoted to the topic "Development of an aluminum alloy for use in electrically conductive tires of vehicles." The participants had to analyze the effect of alloying components on the electrical conductivity of aluminum and its strength characteristics for use in electrically conductive tires of vehicles, instead of copper conductors.

9 teams from universities of the Volga Federal District competed for reaching the finals. The teams of Lipetsk State Technical University included students of various fields. The Metallica team united Vyacheslav Goncharov, Ksenia Volkova, Anastasia Konevzerova and Elena Shmakova. And the "Modern Metals" team was introduced Elmaddin Mammadov, Dmitry Burashnikov, Pavel Sementsov and Vladislav Yurov.

The experts of the championship were representatives of JSC Kuznetsk Ferroalloys, OSP Yurginsky Ferroalloy Plant, JSC EVRAZ ZSMK, JSC Krastsvetmet. They asked questions to the participating teams and evaluated their solutions to the case.

According to the results of the semi-finals, both teams from Lipetsk reached the final of the championship.

The final will be held in a full-time format in Moscow. The winners and prize-winners of the Student League will receive valuable gifts from the organizers and partner companies, internships and internships in leading industry companies, participation in summer forums and meetings, as well as the opportunity to enroll in graduate and postgraduate studies at partner universities of the championship on preferential terms.

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