We argued for the right to be called the best engineering student team

Three hundred students in white shirts and jackets with the chevrons of their universities are concentrated. Ten days ago, their teams received a practical task, the solution of which needs to be presented to the jury today. Nothing can be changed anymore, you just need to calm down and competently tell them what solution they have found to the problem. It depends on whether they become the best engineering student company.

The final of the international engineering championship "Case-in" was held at MISIS, where a VM correspondent also watched the students' competition.

The audience and the teams are discussing the last preparations before the performances, laptops and written sheets are on the table. The students who work in the field of Electric Power Engineering faced a difficult task: in Orenburg, there was a problem with the development of the northern and western energy districts. It is necessary to work out solutions on how to bring the districts out of this crisis and continue its development.

"We believe that we need to design power grids, build lines and replace old autotransformers with more powerful ones," says Pavel Subbotin, a member of the Moscow Power Engineering University team. - The decision that we will defend today has been prepared continuously for 10 days. All this time, we have been carefully studying the area and its energy features. We hope that we will win and be able to get prestigious jobs in the future thanks to the competition.

313 students and postgraduates from 39 universities in Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia are competing for the right to become the best engineering student company in the final of the competition. During the competition, they solve problems in the electric power industry, mining, geological exploration, oil and gas business and metallurgy.

However, the competition is not like tests or exams, as in a university. Students solve so-called cases, these are practical tasks that are based on the real situation in production.

Real professionalism will be required to solve this problem.

"Cases make you look at a problem from the other side, looking for answers where you haven't even looked before," says last year's silver medalist Daria Batueva, a student at the National University of Mineral Resources "Gorny". - And the competitions among the teams only add interest to the championship.

The championship itself has been held since 2013, and the ability to solve real problems has always been the main measure of success.

"Each of the teams received their case 10 days ago, solved it at home, and today they will present the answer to the jury, which includes representatives of large enterprises," says Artem Korolev, the organizer of the championship. - If the guys show good results, and the jury members like their performance, then it is quite possible that they will receive an internship, a training program, or even employment at enterprises that were partners of the competition. And this is no joke, about 80 percent of the guys who took part in the championship received such practical skills, teamwork skills and knowledge about the organization of the enterprise here that they immediately got a job there after graduation.

DIRECT SPEECH

Alexander Novak, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation:

- The championship site is a unique opportunity to test their knowledge, teaming up and competing with the best future specialists from all over Russia, students can get to know their future profession in depth, bring their level of professional training up to real production requirements.

Sergey Donskoy, Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation:

- The championship helps to more actively attract the attention of the best youth representatives to the issues of rational subsurface use and environmental protection in mining, to increase the interest of young people in the profession of a miner and geologist, as well as to develop practical knowledge, competencies and leadership attitudes among future industry leaders.

Alexander Klimov, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation:

- The Championship is primarily a unique engineering and practice-oriented educational project that encourages students to study the profession more deeply, current problems and methods of their solution in the industry. The project also gives an additional positive impetus to the training of engineering personnel, allowing for effective interaction between universities and employers, bringing together students and industry professionals - representatives of leading companies.
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