Students of the Chelyabinsk region join the qualifying stages of the anniversary Case-in!

It starts in February V Jubilee International Engineering Championship "Case-inMore than 3,000 students will compete for a ticket to the finals of the Championship, according to the Department of Youth Policy.

The Case-in International Engineering Championship is Russia's only federal case championship of fuel and energy and mineral resources complexes, an effective tool for transferring practical knowledge, experience and new competencies to future engineering specialists. The championship includes 5 areas (Leagues): electric power industry, mining, geological exploration, metallurgy, oil and gas business.

"Over the five years of its implementation, the Championship has become an authoritative industry platform bringing together all parties interested in developing Russia's engineering and technical potential.: government, companies, higher education institutions, sectoral public initiatives, advanced youth, – noted Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak. – By participating in the Championship, you get involved in solving real problems of industrial enterprises, learn from the invaluable experience of outstanding professionals, and have the opportunity to build your career trajectory while still a student. All the knowledge and competencies that you will acquire during the Championship, you will have to prove in the very near future, already as young specialists.". 
The championship is a competition in which student teams need to solve an engineering case prepared based on materials from leading industry companies in ten days and defend their ideas before an expert commission consisting of representatives of industry companies, scientific and educational organizations. The championship consists of in-person qualifying stages held at university venues and the Moscow final for the best teams.

By tradition, the opening ceremony of each league of the Championship will be held at universities whose team won the league in the previous season, so the official opening of the Championship will take place at several leading universities in the country: Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin (League for Electric Power and Metallurgy), Ural State Mining University (League for Mining), Irkutsk National Research Technical University (League for Geological Exploration), Tyumen Industrial University (League for Oil and Gas Business).

The jubilee championship includes 85 qualifying stages at the sites of 47 leading technical universities in Russia and the CIS countries. In the finals, which will traditionally be held in Moscow on May 30-31, 2017, the winning teams of the qualifying stages will compete for the title of the best engineering student teams and for the opportunity to complete internships and internships in leading industry companies. The winners of the Mining and Electric Power Engineering Leagues will also have a chance to participate in the annual summer educational programs "Mining School" and "Energy of Youth".

The Case-in International Engineering Championship is a 15−week marathon of close cooperation between future specialists and professionals of the fuel and energy complex and the Moscow Energy Complex. The championship invites partners to participate: industry companies, universities, scientific associations – all organizations and departments interested in developing the human resources potential of fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.

A source: Government of the Chelyabinsk region