CASE-IN 2016. The final of the only federal case championship in Russia took place

The final of the International Engineering Championship, the largest practice-oriented project,  Case-in It took place on May 30 and 31 in Moscow. This unique event was held for the fourth year in the format of a competition for solving engineering cases (practical tasks) among students in the specialties of fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.

Case-in It is the only federal case championship in Russia and is supported by the Ministry of Energy of Russia, the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia, the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, Rosmolodezh, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, the Ministry of Labor of Russia, the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, regional authorities and major employers.

The purpose of the championship is to identify and support the most promising students of specialized universities, promote their acquisition of practical knowledge, experience and new competencies, enhance the image of an employee of the fuel and energy complex and MSC, popularize engineering and technical education and form a personnel reserve of industries. The participants of the championship are students of specialized universities in Russia and the CIS. Their decisions are evaluated by an expert jury, experts with the participation of representatives of technical and personnel services of fuel and energy complex and MSC enterprises, industry scientific and educational organizations.

The Championship is the successor of the All-Russian Mining Case Solving Championship (2013-2014) and the All-Russian Fuel and Energy Case Solving Championship (2015). The case-in is implemented in accordance with the approved Russian Government Decree No. 366-r dated March 5, 2015, an action plan aimed at popularizing the working and engineering professions.

Today, Case-in is among the TOP 100 best youth projects according to the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, is the winner of the All-Russian competition of the best programs of companies and organizations of the Fuel and energy complex for schoolchildren, students and young professionals within the framework of the International Forum on Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation ENES 2013 and 2014, as well as the winner of the competition "IX Russian Mining Award 2015" in the nomination "The best personnel project."

80 Case-in qualifying stages brought together 3,200 future engineers; more than 500 executives and specialists from industry companies acted as experts evaluating the participants' decisions. On May 30 and 31, 2016, 313 students and postgraduates from 39 universities from 32 cities of Russia, as well as from Kazakhstan and Mongolia, met in Moscow for a decisive intellectual battle for the title of the best student engineering team of this year.

RusCable portal.Ru, as the general industry information partner of the championship, attended the event and talked with participants and experts.

DAY ONE

On the first day of the final, the case defense took place at MISIS. Ten days earlier, the students were given a task – five engineering cases, each of which described a real problem at an enterprise of the fuel and energy or mineral resources complex of Russia.

So 22 teams of the League on mining The solution of the Bystrinsky Development case was presented. The task of the case is to determine the technological scheme of production and the parameters of the mining and technological complex of Bystrinsky GOK, located on the territory of the Trans-Baikal Territory. 12 League teams by geological exploration The projects of geological exploration of the Enachinsky predictive ore node, located on the territory of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), were proposed.

In the final of the Po League electric power industry 25 teams took part. Future power engineers presented a scheme for the development of the Western Energy District of the Orenburg Region's energy system in the near future. 7 teams representing the League by metallurgy, We analyzed the reserves of mineral raw materials and secondary resources in the territory of the Ural Federal District and developed options for creating an integrated ferrous metallurgy plant in the district.

In oil and gas business  17 teams presented an analysis of the geological features of the Vishnevo-Polyanskoye field, located in the Republic of Tatarstan, and a schedule for its development for the entire period of operation.

The decisions of the finalists of each league were evaluated by an expert jury consisting of managers and specialists from leading industry companies, including: JSC SO UES, JSC SUEK, LLC SGK, JSC MHC EuroChem, IMC Montan, MICROMINE, LLC EvrazHolding, JSC Rosgeologiya, Sverdlovsk Branch of PJSC T Plus, JSC Yuzhuralzoloto, PJSC Tatneft, PJSCFGC UES, Norilsk Nickel Group, Dassault System Geovia RUS LLC and others.

DAY TWO

On the second day, a closed "Career Day" was organized at the Vernadsky State Geological Museum. Here, the finalists got acquainted with the personnel policies of the largest industry companies - Case—in partners - and learned firsthand how to get an offer from a large company for employment, an internship, and an internship.

The correspondent the portal RusCable.Ru I talked with the participants of one of the finalist teams - "Star Triangle" (Yekaterinburg). The masters of the Ural Energy Institute of UrFU: Sergey Shevchuk, Anton Kulikov, Maria Bulatnikova and Eduard Balakh — won the university qualifying stage of the Energy League of the International Championship and represented the university in Moscow in the finals today. It should be noted that for the second year in a row, UrFU holds the record for the number of participants in all Russian universities participating in the Electric power Engineering League championship.

- The opinion about the championship is definitely positive, participation in it is very interesting. This year's tasks, I must say, are more difficult than last time. If we talk about the preparation for the championship, it goes on all year. The experience of last year's participation was very useful to us. While preparing for the trip here, we already knew what we needed to focus on, in which areas our knowledge was insufficient, and we were able to arrive more prepared. By attending lectures and communicating with teachers, we gained exactly the knowledge that we put into practice," said the team leader.

Russian education is currently not at the highest level, and such formats as case studies help future specialists adapt to their future specialty, understand what will be required of them in practice, and focus on narrower areas of study.

When asked by a correspondent about the reason for choosing this particular area of study, the team representatives noted that they chose the specialty more intuitively and now, as time has passed, they are not at all disappointed in their decision.

In the electric power sector, the interviews were conducted by the heads of personnel management departments and experts from the personnel training and development departments of JSC SO UES and PJSC FGC UES. During the talks, such key points regarding future employment were voiced as:

• There is a serious need for highly qualified personnel;
• high competition in recruitment;
• the need for specialists engaged in scientific activities (STC FGC UES) and others.

Representatives of leading companies in the industry note that, of course, recruitment is mainly among those who have completed specialized training. Thus, specialized additional professional education programs are being implemented for JSC SO UES on the basis of higher educational institutions: "Operational dispatch management of electric power systems", "Relay protection and automation of electric power systems", "Automated dispatch control systems of electric power systems". These programs are implemented in eight specialized universities: FGAOU HE "National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University", FGAOU HE "Ural Federal University named after the First President B.N. Yeltsin", FGAOU HE "North Caucasus Federal University", FGABOU HE "South Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI) named after M.I. Platonov", Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Samara State Technical University, Ivanovo State Power Engineering University. Lenin", Kazan State Power Engineering University.

Representatives of FGC UES PJSC reminded the participants about a specialized program for students, bachelors and undergraduates of Russian technical universities studying in electric power engineering specialties, as well as for graduate students and young scientists engaged in scientific research, the RNC CIGRE Youth Section. Participation in the section allows young professionals to prove themselves, present their projects, take part in thematic contests and competitions, receive grants and offers, and grow professionally.

The culmination of the second day of the finals was the solemn ceremony of awarding the winners and prize-winners of the Case-in with the participation of Anatoly Yanovsky, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, Igor Lobovsky, President of the Global Energy Non-Profit Partnership for the Development of International Research and Projects in the Field of Energy, and Yuri Malyshev, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Technical Sciences. Alexander Gladkov, Director of the Department of Oil and Gas Production and Transportation at the Russian Ministry of Energy.

In League for Electric Power Industry The first place was taken by the Zvezda – Triangle team from the Ural Federal University. The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin (Yekaterinburg). The second is the 50 Hertz team (Ivanovo State Power Engineering University). The third is "Guardians of the Networks" (Platov South Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI), Novocherkassk).

Champion Mining Leagues The case is Nautilus (Ural State Mining University (Yekaterinburg). Siberian Light team (Tyumen Industrial University) in the League for oil and gas business I took the first place. In the Po League geological exploration The champions were the Center of the Earth team (Irkutsk National Research Technical University). In the Po League metallurgy gold was won by the team "Non-ferrous Metals of UrFU" (Ural Federal University named after the first President B.N. Yeltsin (Yekaterinburg).

The winners of the Championship were awarded the title of the best engineering student team of 2016 and were included in the personnel reserve of the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes. Now they will take part in the industry−specific summer educational programs "Mining School" and "Energy of Youth", as well as in the All-Russian Youth Educational Forum "Iturup - 2016".

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