KuzSTU students offered 59 ideas for achieving technological leadership.

350 participants were united by the qualifying stage of the Student League of the XI International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". This year, the championship opened its new decade, which is dedicated to the topic of technological leadership. 59 student teams presented proposals on how to achieve this leadership in their decisions.

This time, students had to solve engineering cases and complete engineering and technical tasks related to artificial intelligence, computing and data transmission, robotics, and industrial technologies.

KuzSTU has been participating in the "CASE-IN" since 2015, and this season the guys have been preparing original projects in five areas: electric power, thermal power, mining and petrochemical industries, as well as design engineering. Important for this championship is the full-time format of the qualifying stage, which has been held for the first time since 2019. On this occasion, distinguished guests came to congratulate the participants.

"I wish you every success – so that you can make friends within your teams, develop a project together and communicate your thoughts competently, and also so that you can create a solution that takes into account current trends and has every chance of real production implementation. Set ambitious goals for yourself! We are glad that the organizers of the championship choose our venue for such a competition, and experts from the production support this idea and evaluate the decisions of our students," said Alexey Yakovlev, Rector of KuzSTU.

"Sergey Pfetzer, Minister of Science, Higher Education and Youth Policy of Kuzbass, wished good luck to the young engineers. He also thanked the mentors of the teams and noted that today young people have plenty of opportunities to prove themselves.

"The CASE-IN Championship is a celebration. A celebration of youth and problem solving. This is the very example when our industrial partners provide real production tasks for young people. The most important stage in any project is its implementation, so after defending the solutions to your cases, be sure to continue your idea in scientific articles and at conferences," said Sergey Pfetzer.

Each case was prepared by companies from different industries, and their experts welcomed the participants at the grand opening of the CASE–IN. For example, the Mining case is related to the Yubileyny quarry in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia): The participants, on behalf of ALROSA, selected advanced mining technologies that would ensure safe and uninterrupted operation of the quarry.

SIBUR has assigned future specialists in the petrochemical industry to develop Kazanorgsintez PJSC, Russia's only polycarbonate manufacturer. The students offered ideas aimed at improving the efficiency of polycarbonate production.

Rosseti specialists have set a task for KuzSTU electric power engineering students related to the Unified Energy System of Siberia. The participants of the competition identified an electric grid facility and developed a plan for its development until 2030, taking into account the introduction of domestic innovative technologies.

Future builders and design engineers, on behalf of NIPIGAZ, presented ideas that would eliminate technical and economic barriers in design and construction activities and ensure the efficiency of facility design.

The direction of "Thermal Power Engineering" is new for the championship. Gazprom Energoholding prepared the assignment for him. In their solutions, the guys explained how to identify defective areas of thermal and mechanical equipment using modern methods and equipment. KuzSTU's partner in this area is the Kuzbass branch of the Siberian Generating Company.

"I would like to welcome you on behalf of the entire company and express my gratitude to the students, organizers and experts. Thank you for your, and now our, interest in obtaining unique solutions for Kuzbass. The proposed cases help students learn how to combine theoretical and practical skills, clearly express their position, as well as search for new information and structure it," said Elena Solonko, Chief Expert on Personnel Management at the Kuzbass branch of SGC.

The most popular among the five "CASE-IN" areas were "Electric Power Engineering" and "Project Engineering": 15 teams from Kuzbass Polytechnic University solved these cases. In second place is Mining, which attracted the attention of 11 teams. 9 teams each worked on cases on "Petrochemistry" and "Thermal Power Engineering". Experts at the venues noted that this year many students have expanded their competencies, solving problems not only in their training profile. The jury selected the three best teams in each direction of the championship.

Mining

1st place – MAKS team (Konstantin Akimov, Stepan Bondarenko, Artem Romanov, Maxim Sosnin);

2nd place – Monolith team (Dmitry Nekrasov, Ignaty Prokopenko, Maxim Trofimov);

3rd place – the Quaternary team (Daria Apasova, Danil Kalabukhov, Kristina Kashtanova, Alexander Popkov).

Electric power industry

1st place – the EDS team (Anastasia Aksenova, Ilya Zaslavsky, Elizaveta Kartashova, Stanislav Sevalnev);

2nd place – Ampernevolt team (Daniil Losev, Mikhail Rakhmatulin, Konstantin Sledevsky, Anastasia Ustyuzhanina);

3rd place – Nek-IE team (Yaroslav Avdeev, Ekaterina Arkhipenko, Anna Dvorovenko, Konstantin Shulikov).

Industrial engineering

1st place – ConyPeak team (Sasha Grishin, Sveta Lushnikova, Anna Sanarova, Ekaterina Shinkarenko);

2nd place – the Road Team (Pavel Kurtov, Nikolai Petrov, Dmitry Romanenko, Egor Chesnokov);

3rd place – the Sturgeon team (Anastasia Evtiheeva, Valentina Skoryupina, Egor Slonov, Nikita Shchanin).

Petrochemicals

1st place – team "Molecule" (Daria Gavrilycheva, Yulia Lizunova, Mikhail Selivanov, Ekaterina Starikova);

2nd place – the Rectification team (Demid Vasin, Alexey Markov, Vladislav Semenov, Anastasia Shurdova);

3rd place – the Freaky Tin team (Roman Beloglazov, Elizaveta Legocheva, Elizaveta Fil, Angelina Eirikh).

Thermal power engineering

1st place – Thermoeds team (Sergey Lapov, Gordey Meshkov, Ivan Nefedov, Pavel Fadeev);

2nd place – team Teplo (Ilya Ankudinov, Anastasia Panarina, Maxim Staroselnikov, Andrey Yankov);

3rd place – G2 team (Dmitry Besedin, Vitaly Petrakov, Alexandra Rudyuk, Anna Tyra).

Now the first-place teams will present their finalized projects in the industry semi-finals and compete for tickets to the finals of the championship, which will be held in Moscow at the end of May 2023 and will bring together the strongest youth engineering teams from Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus.

The champions and prize-winners of the Student League will be able to enroll in master's and postgraduate studies at 24 universities on preferential terms, complete internships and internships or get a job at partner companies, take part in industry youth educational forums, and travel around Russia as part of the More Than Travel program.

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