The CASE-IN Championship is an important career step for Magnitogorsk students

Students of Magnitogorsk State Technical University named after G. I. Nosov became participants of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". For future young specialists, this became a serious step in their career ladder — representatives of such large companies as SIBUR, ALROSA, SO UES, RusHydro, Rosatom, Tatneft, NIPIGAZ, Rosseti, Mycromine and others drew attention to the finalists. others.

The final of the championship was held in Moscow. The winners were students of South Ural universities — SUSU and MGTU named after G.I. Nosov. The organizers and participants talked about the event, their experiences, and impressions.

"Ural universities are the backbone of the CASE—IN Student League. SUSU has been participating in the championship in the Southern Urals since 2017, and the Nosov Moscow State Technical University since 2018, both universities are among the top ten in the field of Metallurgy. Students from Magnitogorsk and Chelyabinsk became silver and bronze medalists in the field of Metallurgy, and in the Digital Transformation season in 2019 Magnitogorsk residents won the championship title among mining students.", — said the founder and co-chairman of the organizing committee of the CASE-IN Artem Korolev.

"I participated in the championship as a 2nd-year student (specializing in Open-pit Mining), usually fifth-year students participate in the championships. We took 8th place in the final. But I think we have proposed a very interesting solution to the case. The task was to optimize the electrical costs for ventilation of the Udachny underground mine in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). And we have come up with a way to generate electricity in Yakutia: a geothermal power plant was built, which began to generate electricity. It's a significant saving when you don't buy electricity from the outside. Then we decided to switch the company's fleet from diesel (expensive) fuel to electric, as well as apply automation of equipment. We also replaced the angle of inclination of the fan blades, which solved our problem of an overabundance of air supply to the mine, thereby reducing the load on the heaters and, consequently, the electrical costs of ventilation. We have achieved significant efficiency and environmental friendliness of the enterprise. And finally, we diversified our production", — said Nadezhda Kovalenko, captain of the 2021 finalist team, a 3rd-year student at the Institute of Mining and Transport of the Nosov Moscow State Technical University.

"Every year, the tasks for the participants are not easy! It is necessary to offer advanced technical solutions for the largest companies in the field of energy. The decisions of the participants must necessarily keep up with the times and even be somewhat ahead of it. This year's case on "Electric Power Industry" is aimed at solving Energy Transition problems, primarily related to the introduction of clean energy sources and reduction of CO2 emissions. And this is a really difficult task! The most interesting thing about CASE-IN is that when participants are looking for solutions, they understand that they will only be able to find it at the junction of several areas. For example, when solving a case in 2019, our students in the field of electric power engineering, in addition to the developed SmartGrid system, offered to accompany it with a cybersecurity system. At the same time, the participants even thought over a system for transmitting, storing and analyzing data and proposed the implementation of this project using satellite systems. It was unusual to also hear IT solutions from the electric power industry.", — Alexandra Varganova, Associate Professor of the Department of Power Supply of Industrial Enterprises of the Moscow State Technical University named after G.I. Nosov, told.

The main season of the "CASE-IN" is over, but the engineering competitions of the championship do not stop there. The Autumn Cup, which traditionally gathers talented and motivated young people, will start very soon.

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