Geological students from Tomsk are among the three winners of the CASE-IN championship

The main season of the 10th anniversary International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" has ended in Moscow. The team of the Faculty of Geology and Geography of TSU took the 3rd place in the field of "Geological exploration".

The championship consisted of three 10-day stages: seven days to solve the case and three days to prepare for the performance. The qualifying stage and the semi-finals were held in a remote format, and the final was held in Moscow on May 25.

The assignment was in the case format, according to the winners, 1st–year students of the Faculty of Geology and Geography. Nikita Kravchuk, Bato Radnazhapov , Alexey Alyabin and Egor Klyukin. For their team, it represented a real site – a diamond placer under the city of Mirny, which needed to be developed. At the qualifying stage, it was necessary to study the geological structure of the site, to characterize the signs and prerequisites for the formation of a placer. In the semi–finals, it is planned to carry out a complex of works to clarify the localization of the placer. In the final, it was necessary to propose a set of operational works, carry out the operation and calculate the cost of the work.

The case itself provided the necessary information about the work area, which made it possible to understand what the team was dealing with, and a list of references for solving the tasks set. According to the guys, the qualifying stage turned out to be the most difficult for them, where they were faced with an array of new information, most of which needed to be found by themselves. At the same time, the case format allows you to solve serious problems and touch real activities, real geological work – this is very valuable, the guys say.

"If we talk about preparing the guys to participate in the championship, they did everything themselves, we only sometimes guided them a little., – tells Elvira Kungulova, Junior Researcher at the TSU GGF, Curator of the Geological Exploration department, - CASE-IN is a launching pad for young engineers. Thanks to her, students have the opportunity to try their hand at solving interesting non-standard tasks. And the teachers have to see how our students can handle it. Currently, we are in third place in the ranking of all Russian universities in geological exploration."

Tomsk State University has been successfully participating in the CASE-IN championship for the fifth year. In 2018, students of the Faculty of Geology and Geography took 4th place, and in 2017 and 2019 – 3rd place. TSU students received the gold medal in 2020.

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