NUST MISIS students became winners of the CASE-IN Championship

A team of NUST MISIS students took first place in the final of the X International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", which is part of The presidential platform "Russia is a country of opportunities". The participants proposed the best solution to SIBUR's case for the automatic control, processing and analysis of emissions and discharges of pollutants from the enterprise.

The event was held at the site of NUST MISIS, which is the co-organizer of the final of the X season of the championship.

In 2022, the CASE-IN championship is dedicated to the theme "Industry 4.0", which permeates the tasks of all competitions held as part of the jubilee X season of the championship. In the final of the Student League, teams from 108 universities from 44 cities of Russia, as well as from Kazakhstan and Belarus.

Alevtina Chernikova, Rector of NUST MISIS: "NUST MISIS has been a co-organizer of the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship since 2014. Throughout the years of its existence, NUST MISIS students have actively participated in this competition and have repeatedly become its winners and prize-winners. It is a great honor for the university to host the final of the tenth anniversary season of CASE-IN, which helps all participants put into practice the knowledge gained during their studies and try their hand at solving real production problems proposed by the business partners of the championship."

Students were asked by the partner companies of the championship to present solutions in 10 industry areas: automation and IT, geological exploration, mining, mining machinery and equipment, metallurgy, etc.

As part of the final tasks, future specialists had to finalize the tasks of the cases received at the previous stages of the championship. A team of students from NUST MISIS won in the Petrochemistry nomination.

"After receiving the assignment from SIBUR, we identified three main problems that may arise at a petrochemical plant: gas emissions, wastewater discharges, and accidents. Focusing on them, we proposed a three-part solution: gas analyzers for detecting gas emissions, sensors for detecting wastewater discharge, and drones with video cameras to prevent accidents. Our main task was to automate the company's control and management processes as much as possible to prevent environmental pollution in accordance with SIBUR's sustainable development goals. In the final case, all the work was aimed precisely at this," said Tatiana Marakutsa, team captain, 1st year graduate student at the Institute of Economics of the National University of Economics "MISIS".

The team consisted of students of the 1st year of the Master's degree in Materials Science and Technology of the Department of Physical Materials Science of the Institute of Engineering of NUST MISIS: Tatiana Marakutsa, Kamilla Balasheva, Andrey Belyakov and Milena Sudakova.

University students regularly become winners and prize-winners of the "CASE-IN". In 2021, the Commune team became the best in the field of Mining, and in 2020, university students won silver and bronze medals in Metallurgy and Mining.

The "CASE-IN" project of the Presidential Platform "Russia — the land of Opportunities" is being implemented within the framework of the federal project "Social Elevators for Everyone" of the national project "Education". Winners and prize-winners get the opportunity to complete internships and, in the future, get a job in a company that is a partner of the championship, as well as enroll in postgraduate and master's degrees at partner universities on preferential terms.

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