6 student teams will represent IRNITA in the final of the CASE-IN championship

The students of IRNTU, consisting of six teams, became finalists of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". Polytechnic students will travel to Moscow, where they will present solutions to cases on the topic of "Industry 4.0".

At Irkutsk Technical University, the Student League of the championship was held in six areas: mining, design engineering, metallurgy, oil and gas, geological exploration and electric power industry. In the qualifying stage of the Siberian Federal District, 12 polytechnic teams presented their projects.

In the final, the Euthetics team consisting of IRNTU students Irina Dumnova, Ekaterina Krainova and Tuyana Shoikhonova will compete in the field of Geological Exploration.

Students of the Institute of Energy of IRNTU Ivan Konovalov, Nikolay Vishnyakov, Irina Barkhatova and Daria Shagdyr (Energy) successfully solved a case initiated by the Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System in the semifinals.

According to Daria Shagdyr, the participants were asked to analyze the problems of a regional network company and propose solutions using 4.0 technologies.

"We have come to the conclusion that most of the employees do not know how to use the new equipment. Our decision was to create a special training center where employees will be able to receive training on VR/AR simulators.", - This is Daria speaking.

In the final round of the championship, the Star Volts, consisting of Polytechnic students Arthur Galfinger, Victoria Piskunova, Igor Puzanov and Alisa Soboleva, will also perform in the Electric Power Industry.

Tech-Novatika, which competed in project engineering, was also able to successfully overcome the semi-final stage. The captain of the student union is Mikhail Kovalev. Maria Sambulova, a graduate student at the Institute of High Technologies, is responsible for risk calculations and assessment in the team. Nikita Goryashin, a Polytechnic student, is a technologist who analyzes technological solutions.

"Our case was not tied to any company. We looked at different aspects of Industry 4.0. Modern industry will not be able to develop without the introduction of new technologies. Forbes predicts that the turnover of organizations that have switched to this method will reach $1.5 trillion in 2022, and their efficiency will exceed the current level of productivity by more than seven times.", - Maria commented.

She believes that participation in the championship provides an opportunity to prove yourself and improve your professional skills.:  "Our team plans to concentrate all efforts to perform well in the finals."

The Lagrange's Theorem team (Evgeny Rudykh, Mikhail Semykin, Viktor Kovrizhnykh, Sergey Kobylinsky) will compete in the oil and gas business. Last year, Polytechnic students won the third place in the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN".

The Noble minerals team, which includes Nikolai Bocharov, Anastasia Gavrilova, Stepan Stepanov and Nikanor Moseychuk, also became finalists. They will develop the project in the interests of the mining industry.

According to Stepan Stepanov, a fifth-year student at the Institute of Subsoil Use, who is mastering open-pit mining, the team is participating in the championship for the third time.: 

"Last year we won the silver medal. A CASE-IN is an opportunity for a future engineer to prove himself while still studying at the university.

In the semi-finals, we solved a case from the diamond mining company ALROSA. At the Internationalny mine, there is an outdated method of controlling the delivery of the filling mixture and the lack of an effective way to eliminate blockages in pipelines. The experts highly appreciated our idea of installing a modular underground installation complex. We also proposed to digitalize all the processes of managing foundation work based on blockchain technology."

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