Yekaterinburg students have won two CASE-IN Championship awards

The final of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" was held in Moscow from May 31 to June 2. The UrFU team "In sediment" became the bronze medalist in the field of "Petrochemistry", and the Adamantium team received a special prize from IMC Montan.

The participants of the team "In the sediment" Valeria Balandina, Lilia Kalimullina, Daria Tikhomirova are in their fourth year, so they had to combine participation in the competition with writing their final qualifying papers.

"We went through the qualifying stage and the semi-finals with one decision, but we changed everything for the final. Honestly, it was a little scary that almost all the teams had already finalized their previous solutions, honed them, and we did it from scratch. But the girls and I completely immersed ourselves in the topic of the case, devoted almost all our time to solving it.", — said the captain of the team Lilia Kalimullina.

The team needed to solve a case study on a technological solution for SIBUR that would improve the company's contribution to global sustainable development goals.

"We have proposed a solution for carbon dioxide capture and further use. In the first two stages, we proposed a completely different solution, but before the final we realized that the previous technology would not lead us to victory. And we started thinking about a new solution. And it was the right move!" — Lilia Kalimullina noted.

This year's theme of the championship is sustainable development. 5.5 thousand students from 49 regions of Russia and Belarus took part in the competition.

Ural Federal University (UrFU) is one of the leading universities in Russia with a hundred—year history. It is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the 2023 World Summer Student Games. In the Year of Science and Technology, he will take part in the competition under the Priority 2030 program. The university performs the functions of the project office of the Ural Interregional World-class Scientific and Educational Center (REC).

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