On May 30-31, 2016, the final of the International Engineering Championship "Case-in" was held in Moscow. Undergraduates participating in the specialized training program of JSC "System Operator of the Unified Energy System" as part of the teams of their universities became winners and prize−winners of the League Championship in the electric power industry.
The high level of professional training, early specialization and practical experience allowed the master's students – trainees of the System Operator to succeed in the competitions of the International Engineering Championship "Case-in": as part of the teams of their universities, they reached the final of the Electric Power Industry League and took all the prizes of the championship.
According to the decision of the expert commission, the winner of the League for Electric Power Industry of the International Engineering Championship "Case-in" was the Star–Triangle team from the Ural Federal University named after The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin: Sergey Shevchuk, Anton Kulikov, Maria Bulatnikova, Eduard Balakh.
The second place in the League was taken by the 50 Hertz team from Ivanovo State Power Engineering University, consisting of Natalia Fomenko, Alexander Komukhov, Anton Bryndin and Pavel Firstov.
The bronze medalist was the Guards of Networks undergraduate team representing the Platov South Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI): Anton Zubov, Ivan Morozov, Vladimir Lukyanov, Andrey Pilipenko.
The winners of the Electric Power League of the International Engineering Championship "Case-in", who won the title of the best student engineering team in 2016, were included in the personnel reserve of the fuel and energy complex of Russia and received the right to participate in the largest event for young workers in the electric power sector - the International Summer Educational Forum "Energy of Youth", which in 2016 will be held in Sverdlovsk region.
JSC SO UES acted as a strategic partner of the championship. The qualifying and final cases of the Electric Power Industry League were developed with the participation of specialists from the System Operator, and the company's representatives acted as experts for both the qualifying stages at specialized universities and the League finals.
The qualifying stages of the championship were held at partner universities of JSC SO UES: Ivanovo State Power Engineering University named after V.I. Lenin, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Samara State Technical University, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, South Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI) named after M.I. Platov, North Caucasus Federal University and Kazan State Energy University. Undergraduates studying in specialized training programs for a System operator at partner universities took part in the qualifying rounds. Teams from 25 universities took part in the League final. In accordance with the task of the case, future power engineers presented a development scheme for the Western Energy District of the Orenburg Region's energy system in the near future.
80 qualifying stages of the Case-in International Engineering Championship at the sites of 39 leading technical universities united the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes of Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. More than 3,200 future engineers took part in the Championship, who solved cases in five areas: "Electric power industry", "Mining", "Geological exploration", "Oil and gas business" and "Metallurgy". More than 500 executives and specialists from industry companies became experts evaluating the participants' decisions. The League's expert commission on the Electric Power Industry includes experts from leading energy companies and industry organizations in Russia.: JSC SO UES, PJSC FGC UES, PJSC Rosseti, the Sverdlovsk Branch of PJSC T Plus, PJSC IDGC of Centre, JSC STC UES, NP Scientific and Technical Council of the Unified Energy System and others.
As part of the championship finals, a "Career Day" was held, during which representatives of the System Operator met with future power engineers, presented the company's youth work system and talked about the conditions for selecting the most prepared and motivated students for specialized training programs, internship opportunities and industrial practice.
A source FROM UES