Semi-finalists of the "CASE-IN" from Stavropol are invited to practice at the System Operator

The qualifying stage of the Student League of the XI International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" in the field of "Electric Power Industry" took place on the basis of the North Caucasus Federal University (NCFU). 

According to the results of the case defense, the first place was taken by a team consisting of 3rd-year undergraduate students from NCFU. Mikhail Lobanov, Alexander Ovcharenko, Dmitry Turchenko and Beslan Shidov, students of the specialty "Electric Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering", presented their vision of the case this year. According to the assignment, the participants of the championship were required to propose solutions for the introduction of domestic innovative technologies by 2030 at one of the electric grid facilities in the Siberian ECO.

"It is necessary to note the high motivation of the team members who are taking part in the CASE-IN this year," says Vladimir Pastorov, chairman of the expert council of the qualifying stage, a leading specialist in the Personnel Management Service of the UDE of the South. – The guys from the winning team are taking part in the championship for the third time, and this year they have shown themselves quite well by carefully working out the subject of the case and offering a detailed solution. As a result of the victory in the qualifying stage, we offered the winning team the right to complete an internship at the UDE of the South."

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, and the company's representatives act as experts for both the qualifying stages of the championship and the final of the competition.

Three of the ten experts who evaluated student papers in the semi-finals in the field of "Electric Power Industry" represented the Branch of JSC SO UES An ODE to the South. In addition to Vladimir Pastorov, the experts of the qualifying stage were John Burlak, Chief Specialist of the Automated Dispatch Control Systems Service, and Andrey Mironov, specialist of the first category of the Market Support Service.

After passing the qualifying stages, the best teams will receive tickets to the industry semi–finals of the championship, and the winners will be determined in the final of the championship on May 30 - June 1, 2023.

The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is a system of competitions 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 Student League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" is a team competition among students, undergraduates and postgraduates of higher educational institutions for solving engineering cases, consisting of full–time and part-time qualifying stages, which are held in eight federal districts of Russia with the final stage in Moscow.

A source: JSC "SO UES"