X season "CASE-IN": a new direction "Automation and IT"

In the X anniversary season The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", part of the The presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities", a new industry direction is being opened "Automation and IT".

The initiator and "curator" of the direction is the new strategic partner of the championship Gazstroyprom JSC, a leading Russian multidisciplinary company that performs a full range of work within the framework of infrastructure projects for the extraction, processing and transportation of natural gas. The main activity is the construction, reconstruction and overhaul of fuel and energy complex facilities (technological complexes of oil and gas fields, pipelines, compressor stations, etc.), construction of civil facilities, services in the field of engineering, equipment and logistics.

Within the framework of the direction "Automation and IT" Future programmers and IT specialists will develop solutions for automating various technological processes and productions, using information technologies to optimize them and increase efficiency. Students will also have to reflect information management issues in their projects, including the creation, storage, transmission and retrieval of data.

Competitions in the new field will be held at 10 universities.: These are the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI  (Moscow), R.E. Alekseev Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University, Southern Federal University (Rostov-on-Don), Ural Federal University named after the First President B.N. Yeltsin (Yekaterinburg), Kazan State Power Engineering University, National Research University "MEI" (Moscow), Rostov State University of Economics, North-Caucasian Mining and Metallurgical Institute (Vladikavkaz), St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI" named after V.I. Ulyanov (Lenin).

Students from other universities will be able to join the qualifying stages at the basic universities of the direction.

Registration of participants is open at the championship website.