Students of the Republic of Kazakhstan gained professional experience in the final of the "CASE-IN" championship

Three student teams of the Republic of Kazakhstan took part in the final of the X anniversary season The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", part of the the presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities".  Future power engineers, mining engineers and IT-the specialists presented their solutions to experts from leading industry companies and gained invaluable experience that will help them become highly qualified specialists.

The CASE-IN Championship is an international system of competitions for solving engineering cases among schoolchildren, students and young specialists in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes, the nuclear industry and related industries.

The theme of "Industry 4.0" permeated the cases of all the championship competitions.

The final of the jubilee X championship brought together 506 future engineers and 94 young specialists of fuel and energy and mineral resources complexes from 42 regions of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus at the NUST MISIS site in Moscow.

Opening the event, the founder and co-chairman of the organizing committee of the CASE-IN Championship Artem Korolev He said that the project started in 2013 with one student's field "Mining" and 13 participating universities. Today, these are 10 areas in the Student League, separate competitions for schoolchildren and young professionals, as well as dozens of corporate projects under the auspices of CASE-IN.

"The ten-year path of the championship was long and thorny, but at the same time it flew by in one breath. It took the organizers several years to work out all the details and convince the participants, experts and teachers of the practical significance of the project. Today, the CASE-IN brand is well-known in many universities, large companies, and even related industries. But the championship would not have been so successful without the support of our friends and partners: ANO "Russia – the land of Opportunities", federal agencies, industry companies and universities. Together, as one friendly team, we have educated more than one generation of promising future engineers. But we are not going to stop there. The championship has ambitious plans ahead – to become an integral part of educational and production processes in every specialized university in the country and an industry company. I am sure that in close cooperation with our partners we will be able to carry out our plans.", – underlined Artem Korolev.

Welcoming the finalists at the award ceremony, Director General of ANO "Russia – the Land of Opportunities" Alexey Komissarov He noted that in 10 years the Student League has become the most widespread in terms of the number and geography of participants.:

"If earlier the league brought together students of only "mining" universities, then in the jubilee X season 10 diverse areas are represented here: automation and IT, geological exploration, mining, mining machinery and equipment, metallurgy, oil and gas, petrochemistry, project engineering, industrial safety, electric power industry. 134 teams of 108 universities from 44 cities of Russia met in the final of the Student League, including a team from the Republic of Kazakhstan and 3 teams from the Republic of Belarus. I am sure that their ideas will find application at the country's leading production sites, and the contestants themselves will become highly qualified specialists in the foreseeable future."

Every year, the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation acts as the national partner of the championship. Guest of the final, State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Anastasia Bondarenko He believes that the engineering championship occupies an important place in the youth policy of the industry.

"The Russian Ministry of Energy has been supporting the championship for several years. In our opinion, the events that take place under the auspices of CASE-IN have a positive impact on the popularization of the fuel and energy complex and are already an integral part of the youth agenda of the fuel and energy complex. For young professionals, this is a good starting point and a promising opportunity to work in the country's leading companies.", – Anastasia Bondarenko noted at the award ceremony.

Representatives of the partner companies of the championship took part in awarding the champions and prize-winners: JSC SO UES, JSC ALROSA, PJSC YATEK, NIPIGAZ, JSC Gazstroyprom, PJSC SIBUR Holding, RUSAL, Micromine, JSC MHC EuroChem, IMC Montan.

The finalists defended the case solutions finalized after the qualifying stages. 

The participants of the Student League, on behalf of the partner companies of the championship, presented solutions in 10 industry areas: automation and IT, geological exploration, mining, mining machinery and equipment, metallurgy, oil and gas, petrochemistry, project engineering, industrial safety, electric power industry. Their own competitions were also held for young specialists of the fuel and energy Complex and MSK companies.

The Republic of Kazakhstan was represented in the championship by Karaganda State Technical University, and three student teams reached the final.

The BASQA team (Sanzhar Bayaliev, Bekzhan Akkazyev, Aybar Bayzhanov, Usen Zharasov) has launched a new direction "Automation and IT". Future programmers and IT specialists have developed an information and analytical system for effective management of construction machinery on behalf of Gazstroyprom JSC.

The competition for prizes was high: Kazakhstani students competed with 11 student teams from universities in St. Petersburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Tomsk, Khabarovsk, Rostov-on-Don, Novocherkassk and Mogilev.

As the captain of the team admits Bekzhan Akkazyev The team has participants with different views, and this is what allowed them to reach the championship finals for the first time.

"Participation in "CASE-IN" For us, this is an opportunity to develop in our own direction, to gain new skills in decision defense and public speaking. Separately, I would like to note the involvement of partner companies of the championship in the project, which provide students with a chance to express themselves.", - the contestants noted.

The Miners team, which included Gulim Zhumazhan (captain), Stanislav Kan, Akhat Auezkhanov and Timur Nabiyev, showed their best qualities in the oldest field of the Mining championship.  Students of 7 teams representing specialized universities from St. Petersburg, Belgorod, Magadan, Irkutsk and Chita noted the high level of qualification of the guests of the championship and paid tribute to their zeal for victory. 

Kazakhstani students coped with the difficult task of ALROSA. The mining company invited the contestants to analyze the processes of under-laying and shrinkage of the laying mixtures during the laying operations, and then develop a modern method of laying operations, formulate and propose a technology to reduce the amount of under-laying and shrinkage of the laying mixture in the conditions of the Internatsionalny underground mine.

The TrioD team, represented by Captain Angelina Norets, Alexandra Kirshenman and Kamila Akhmetkalieva, competed in the Electric Power Industry against 19 of the strongest teams from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Vladikavkaz, Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Irkutsk, Barnaul, the Republic of Khakassia and Gomel.

On the instructions of FGC UES PJSC, the students developed a program for the innovative development of the company until 2030 with a further perspective.

Although this year the student teams from Kazakhstan did not rise to the podium, their performance can be called successful. The senior lecturer of the Department of Automation of Production Processes at KarSTU is convinced of this. Kuralai Tokhmetova: "We have been participating in the championship since 2017. This year we won a ticket to the finals. Directions "CASE-IN"one way or another, they are related to the specialties opened at our university. Therefore, it was important for us to see the organization of work and get acquainted with the latest industry trends. We were struck by the high level of decision-making by student teams from specialized universities in Russia. Against this background, we were able to understand our mistakes and identify new vectors for development. Students of Kazakhstan exchanged experiences with their peers, received valuable expert advice and tremendous experience of participating in such large projects. This will help them become not only highly qualified engineers, but also heads of industry companies in the future."