Four UrFU teams became semi-finalists of the CASE-IN championship

The qualifying stage of the XI season of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" was held at Ural Federal University. As part of the unified theme of the 2023 season, "Technological Leadership," more than 30 teams from different universities in the Sverdlovsk Region defended their solutions to engineering cases in four areas: "Thermal Power Engineering," "Electric Power Industry," "Project Engineering," and "Petrochemistry."

"Finally, the qualifying stage has returned to full-time, for the first time since 2020, which we are very happy about. The format of the championship fulfills a very important goal — companies can look at the best of the best and employ them, students can find a place to build a career, and universities can build partnerships with leading companies," said Vladislav Popovtsev, CASE—IN coordinator at UrFU.

The teams received cases that they had to solve in seven days, and then defend them before a jury consisting of industry experts. The main thing that the organizers note is that the cases do not have right or wrong solutions. Students must demonstrate their knowledge of technology, the innovativeness of their solutions, and calculate the economics of their project. For example, in the Electric Power Industry area, it was necessary to analyze an electric grid facility located in Siberia and determine which domestic innovative technologies could be implemented.

According to the results of the defenses, the best teams were: "Phase S 2.0" (UralENIN UrFU) in the direction of "Electric Power Industry", "Complex of God" (IENiM UrFU) — "Project Engineering", "Bright'on" (UralENIN) — "Thermal Power engineering", "It smells like kerosene" (KHTI UrFU) — "Petrochemistry".

Now the students will represent UrFU in the semi-finals, where they will demonstrate their skills in competition with youth engineering teams from other universities. During the nine semi-finals, the finalist teams in each industry area will be determined.

"I think that well-coordinated work and experience helped us to win, I personally have been participating for several years. And I would like to say more thanks to the teachers who supported and advised us. Now the goal is to perform well in the semifinals and go to Moscow to show what Ural Federal University is capable of," said Olga Pichugova, captain of the Phase S 2.0 team.

The champions and prize-winners of the season will be able to complete internships and internships in the partner companies of the championship with the possibility of further employment. The victorious students will also receive privileges upon admission to the master's and postgraduate courses of UrFU.

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