Master's students of the System Operator from Novocherkassk won the qualifying stage of the "CASE-IN"

Undergraduates studying under the specialized System Operator training program have reached the semifinals of the Student League of the Electric Power Engineering field of the XI International Engineering CASE-IN Championship. 

The theme of the new season of the championship is "Technological Leadership". It is directly related to one of the most important tasks for our country: strengthening Russia's technological sovereignty. The participants of the new season will have to solve engineering cases and perform engineering and technical tasks related to artificial intelligence, computing and data transmission, robotics, and industrial technologies. 

The qualifying stage of the championship was held on the basis of the Platov South Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI). Eight teams participated in the "Electric Power Industry" section of the Student League of the Championship. The intense struggle for a ticket to the semifinals ended with the victory of the Duracel team, which included undergraduates of the System Operator, 1st–year students of the Master's degree in Power Engineering at the YURSPU.

For future power engineers, the task of the qualifying stage was related to hydropower. At the initiative of the System Operator, the teams developed a plan for the development of hydropower resources and the development of Russian hydrogenation facilities operating in technologically isolated power systems for the coming years and for the long term.

The system operator has been a partner of the championship for the ninth year in a row. Based on the materials and with the participation of specialists from the UES, qualifying and final cases of the Electric Power Industry direction are being developed, the championship stages are held in all partner universities, and representatives of the System Operator act as experts for both the qualifying stages of the championship and the final of the competition.

The experts of the System Operator at YURGPU were the leading specialist of the Personnel Management Service ODE to the South Galina Chivyaga and Chief Specialist of the Electrical Modes Service Rostov RDU Dmitry Chub is a finalist in the 2022 championship.

After an intense marathon of project defense, the expert commission recognized the Duracel team as the undisputed winner of the qualifying stage. The team members are first-year undergraduates Alexey Lomshakov, Alyona Smirnova, Alexander Lipovoy and Vladislav Sotnikov, an intern at Rostov RDU.

"It was most difficult for our team to meet the allotted time when defending the project, as it was necessary to provide a large amount of information without receiving penalty points. As a result of the discussion with the experts, we saw our own minor mistakes, which we will definitely fix for the next stage."– shared her impressions about participating in the qualifying round Alyona Smirnova.

The best youth teams of the qualifying competitions, which will be held on the basis of 60 CASE IN partner universities, will receive tickets to the industry semi-finals of the championship. The winners will be determined in the finals with the participation of the strongest engineering teams from Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus on May 30 – June 1, 2023.

The CASE-IN International Engineering Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering cases for schoolchildren, students and young specialists in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes, the nuclear industry and related industries. The championship is included in the platform of the NGO "Russia – the land of Opportunities" and is implemented in accordance with the Action Plan aimed at popularizing the working and engineering professions, approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 366-r dated March 5, 2015.

The specificity of "CASE-IN" is the students' search for solutions for real–world production tasks. The time limit, strict requirements for the content of the solution, and the brainstorming format have long proved their effectiveness. Many successful cases have been put into practice, and their authors have become winners and prize-winners of various stages of the championship, as well as received job offers from partner companies.

A source: JSC "SO UES"