Students from all over the country will solve problems in the electric power industry

Tomsk Polytechnic University, together with the Reliable Shift Charitable Foundation, holds the annual All-Russian Student Olympiad on Electric Power Systems. It will be held from November 16 to 18 in an online format. Participants will solve problems of various levels of complexity in relevant areas of the electric power industry.

Full-time students of the 4th year of Bachelor's degree, as well as the 1st and 2nd year of Master's degree are invited to participate in the competitions. This requires until November 11th. register on the website of the Reliable Shift Foundation and send an application to the organizing committee's email address xoxlova@tpu.ru .

"The Olympiad is held as a competition of students in the application of knowledge and skills in electric power disciplines. Its purpose is to attract professionally oriented specialists to enterprises and organizations of the fuel and energy complex, as well as to increase the level of knowledge of students.", — the organizers add.

The participants will compete in individual and team competitions. No more than two teams from one university are allowed to participate. The number of participants in each team is no more than five. They will perform eight tasks in two levels of complexity in relevant areas of the electric power industry. Thus, students will have to complete a task on electric power systems and networks, the electrical part of the station and substation, transients in electric power systems, as well as relay protection and automation.

The winners in the team competition will be determined by the sum of the points scored by the team members. They will receive diplomas and valuable prizes from Tomsk Polytechnic University.

Reference. The Olympiad has been held since 2017 and is being implemented as part of the joint work plan of PJSC Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System based on the events of the youth section of the Russian National Committee of the International Council for Large High Voltage Systems (RNC CIGRE). The Reliable Shift Foundation acts as the operator of the joint work plan.

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