Future petrochemical specialists from Blagoveshchensk in the final of the CASE-IN championship

Following the results of one of the semi-finals in the field of Petrochemistry of the Student League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", the Amur State University team made it to the finals of a prestigious project.  

In total, two teams of Blagoveshchensk students took part in the semi-finals. Future specialists competed with teams from the Far Eastern Federal University, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University and Kuzbass State Technical University named after T. F. Gorbachev.

The JDI team, which includes Nadezhda Antonova, Pavel Odorodko, Kirill Prikhodko, and Polina Shuranova, students of the Chemical Technology training program, managed to become one of the finalists. They will have to defend their case solution proposal at the championship venue in Moscow, competing with teams representing various Russian universities. The mentor of the team is Galina Okhotnikova, Associate Professor of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technology.

Since 2018, Amur State University has been participating annually in the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship in the field of Petrochemistry. The Organizing Committee of the Championship has prepared its own rating of participants. The rating criterion is the place that a team representing an educational organization or an industry company takes in the Championship following the results of the final.

In the 2018-2020 ranking in the field of Petrochemistry, Amur State University ranks fourth along with the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, which demonstrates a high level of student training in the field of Chemical Technology and a high level of involvement in project activities.

The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering cases. In the Student League, the team competition is held in the format of solving engineering cases dedicated to real production problems and developed based on materials from industry enterprises.

The project is part of the Russia – Land of Opportunity platform and is being implemented in accordance with the action plan aimed at popularizing the working and engineering professions, approved by the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation. The championship is among the TOP 15 Olympiads in the world according to the rating agency RAEX.

A source