"CASE-IN" allows Rostov students to gain experience and a prestigious job

The ticket to the future is the so–called International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". It provides opportunities for schoolchildren, students, and young professionals to gain experience, a mentor, and a prestigious job. Last year, more than 10,000 people took part in it. The ninth season of this year is dedicated to the theme "Sustainable development".

This year, the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" is being held for the ninth time. For all its participants and winners, this is a unique opportunity not only to declare themselves, but also to find a job in the near future in leading Russian companies in the field of fuel and energy (fuel and energy complex) and mineral resource complexes (MSC).

A palette of possibilities

There is competition in several leagues in the championship. School – here the guys create existing technical devices related to the fuel and energy complex or the Moscow Energy Complex. League of working specialties for students of secondary specialized educational institutions. Teams of up to 4 people from among students, undergraduates and postgraduates compete in the Student League in the following areas: geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, petrochemistry, project engineering, digital atom, electric power industry. The League of Young Specialists provides an opportunity for employees of companies and organizations in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes to compete in solving complex tasks.

In 2013, the Championship was held for the first time, and since 2019, the project has been included in the the presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities", created on the initiative of Vladimir Putin. The platform unites 26 projects, including the "Leaders of Russia" management competition, the "I am a Professional" student Olympiad, the "Your Move" competition, the "Professional Training 2.0" project, the All–Russian "Big Change" competition and many others.

The winners of the Championship get a unique opportunity to work in actively developing partner companies of the championship: SIBUR, ALROSA, SO UES, RusHydro, Rosatom, Tatneft, NIPIGAZ, Rosseti, MACROMINE, etc.

In the Rostov region, students from four leading universities took part in the "CASE-IN".

Teamwork

Artyom Korolev, founder and Co-chairman of the International Engineering Championship He said that the CASE-IN championship has been linked with the Platov South Russian State Polytechnic University since 2013.: "Many of the championship's prize–winners have already become young professionals and are working or preparing to work in the championship's partner companies. For example, the silver medalists in the Mining field in 2016 work for EuroChem-VolgaKaliy, and this season the championship title was won by a team of student trainees from JSC SO UES, a strategic partner of the championship since 2015, when the Electric Power Industry direction appeared.

The Student League this season was won by the Don students of the NPI (Platov South Russian State Polytechnic University).  The KIUM100 power engineering team consists of Anastasia Lebedeva, Dmitry Chub, Dmitry Chuguev and the captain of the brilliant four, Veronika Lebedeva.

The Don students presented their case on the topic: "Sustainable energy development: active energy complexes and micro-energy systems as part of regional energy systems".

"We selected automation and devices that will monitor the loads in the micro-energy system", – I explained Veronika Lebedeva, captain of the KIUM100 team. –

And if the solution to the case was prepared in advance for the Championship final, then to win the superfinal it was necessary to find a solution to a completely new case in two and a half hours. The topic of the superfinal case is complex and highly relevant: "Innovative digital technologies for the electric power industry in order to solve the technological challenges of JSC SO UES and PJSC FGC UES for the future until 2040."

The energy engineering students from YURGPU (NPI) coped with the task better than their rivals.

"Our team has been playing in this line-up for two years now. During this time, together we prepared and presented solutions to three cases, became finalists of the main season in 2020, and took third place in the Autumn Cup of the championship of the same year. This year has brought us victory in the main season! We are happy because it has been a long and hard process, and winning is a great way to end our journey in the Student League. The relevance of the case topic is explained by the general trend in the development of distributed energy and the global 3D concept. Separately, it should be noted its compliance with the goals of sustainable development. At the championship, we were able to learn how to process a large amount of information, analyze it and isolate its essence, and developed teamwork skills. Also, participation in the CASE-IN allows you to work on the most relevant and new topics in the energy industry, immerse yourself in the trends and prospects of its development, this is very important for future specialists.", – She said.

A tool for success

This is not the first time that the Don team has become a winner. In 2016, YURGPU students became silver medalists in the field of Mining.

"The CASE-IN Championship is not only a platform for competitions between students of Russian universities. First of all, it is an excellent opportunity to gain knowledge and experience in your professional field. These are new acquaintances, communication with experts, and the exchange of achievements and skills. You'll never get anything like that sitting in the audience. I am very grateful to the organizers and fate for having once become a participant in the championship. After one of the championship seasons, I was invited to work at EuroChem-Volgakali, one of the largest and fastest growing producers of mineral fertilizers in the world. By the way, the company holds championships of this level, and I, as a participant and a prize-winner in the past, am involved in the expert commission. This is a great opportunity for further personal development.", " He told me Anatoly Kubatiev, participant and winner of the CASE-IN in 2016.

Graduate of YURGPU, bronze and silver CASE-IN medalist (2015 and 2016) as a member of the Techniki team, and the winner of the EuroChem MHC JSC Case Championship as a member of the Diamond team (2017). Alina Kozitskaya She started participating in engineering case championships from her second year at the institute.

"It's a tool for success! The case-solving technique develops soft skills. Participation in the championship increases self-confidence and the level of professional knowledge. I'm glad that cases happened in my life. They gave a good impetus to further development.", – she thinks.

Egor Zelinsky, captain of the Techniki team (YURGPU), winner of the championship in 2016, now works as a mining engineer at a large German company THYSSEN SCHACHTBAU GMBH. The company is building two of the deepest shafts in Eurasia for Norilsk Nickel.

"My participation in the project of the presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities" is the point in the resume that, first of all, the employer pays attention to, and we, the students, were given a unique opportunity to feel at the helm of a large production, to solve real problems!", – he thinks.

New connections and new opportunities

One of the strategic partners of the championship, JSC SO UES, organizes groups of undergraduates at partner universities who study for two years and then become young specialists at JSC SO UES. Olga Lgova, the 2018 Student League champion (Electric Power Engineering), was involved in one of these groups created at the South Russian State Polytechnic University. Prior to that, she participated in the CASE-IN from 2017 to 2019. In 2018, her team won the Championship with a case study on the prospects for the development of the energy system in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

In 2020, Olga herself acted as an expert and evaluated the decisions of the participants of the student league. According to her, in recent years, cases have begun to require participants to reflect not only on the applied, but also on the more global challenges of developing and digitalizing energy systems. Now the girl works in the branch of JSC SO UES An ODE to the South.

One more young specialist of the branch of JSC "SO UES" ODE to the South by Vladimir Lukyanov. He became the bronze medalist of the CASE-IN Championship five years ago, and now he is a mentor of projects of the Reliable Shift Foundation.

Rector of YURGPU (NPI), Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Yuri Razorenov He believes that the CASE-IN championship proves its relevance year after year, opening up new horizons for professional growth and development for participants of different ages and status.: "It is gratifying that the priorities of the championship do not change: one of the main goals of the championship is to train specialists to work in modern production, to help them acquire the necessary skills and abilities to quickly adapt to enterprises."

Platov South Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI) is a key venue in the Rostov Region for the prestigious competition of minds, and this season Novocherkassk Polytechnics were joined by students from Southern Federal University, Don State Technical University and Rostov State University of Economics.

Now, according to the rules of the Championship, the winning Don students will have the opportunity to complete internships and internships at one of the country's leading industry companies, and they will also receive benefits when applying to master's and postgraduate programs at 20 partner universities of the competition.

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