Students of Tomsk State University – winners of the CASE-IN championship

The Colleagues Team Tomsk State University became the winner of the Student League of the IX International Engineering CASE-IN Championship in the field of Petrochemistry. Over the course of three days, more than 600 students and young professionals from the largest industry companies from 40 regions of Russia and Belarus competed for the main prizes of the season.

The competitions were held in four leagues: the School League, the Student League, the League of Young Professionals and the Special League. The participants developed case solutions for enterprises of the nuclear industry, fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes and related industries. The general theme was "Sustainable development".

TSU was represented by the Colleagues team, a team from the Faculty of Chemistry and the Institute of Economics and Management.: Mark Khainovsky, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Egor Blinov (all CF), Olga Bobyleva (IEM). The team's supervisor is Karina Kurmanbayeva, a 5th–year student at the TSU Faculty of Chemistry, a laboratory assistant at the LKI.

"At the qualifying stages, 1,479 teams of students solved a three–stage case - at each subsequent stage, the tasks of the case became more complicated, supplemented by new conditions. This gave an opportunity to try their hand even to undergraduates. The tasks were based on the actual tasks proposed by the partner companies of the championship", – said the founder and co-chairman of the organizing committee of "CASE-IN" Artem Korolev.

The winners of the Student League of the IX International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" will have the opportunity to complete internships and internships in 17 leading industry companies in the country. The students will also receive benefits for admission to master's and postgraduate studies at 20 partner universities of the competition.

«I would mention two factors that ensured the successful performance of the TSU team. Firstly, Tomsk State University's Chemical School traditionally provides students and graduates with a high level of professional competence, which allows them to solve complex production tasks. Secondly, along with a good base in the form of fundamental knowledge and professional skills, students acquire soft skills that help them interact effectively as part of a team.", – said the curator of the "Petrochemistry" department, senior lecturer at the Department of Organic Chemistry at TSU Mikhail Anishchenko.

Last year, the final stage of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" in the field of "Geological Exploration" was won by a team of students from the TSU GGF "Favorit". 

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