Three Vladikavkaz student teams became semi-finalists of the CASE-IN championship

The North Caucasus Mining and Metallurgical Institute hosted the qualifying stage of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", one of the projects of the Russia – the Land of Opportunities platform.

This year, the university has passed the qualifying stages in three areas - "Electric power industry", "Mining" and "Metallurgy". The experts of the championship were the heads of well-known Russian companies and university scientists.

At the beginning of the event, Igor Alekseev, Rector of SKGMI (GTU), Galina Stankevich, Vice-rector for Academic Affairs and Quality of Education, Ruslan Osokin, Head of the Production and Transport Department of Alrosa, Alexey Soldatov, Deputy Chief Engineer of the ROSSETI branch, addressed the participants and experts with a welcoming speech. In her speech, Galina Stankevich emphasized that the university has been a laureate of the Energy of Education competition for two years, which takes place within the framework of the championship, and also wished the contestants victory. 

After discussing the issues related to the championship, the participants began to defend the projects, which took place at the relevant faculties. Students of the Mining and Metallurgical and Electro-mechanical faculties, as well as the Faculty of Information Technology, presented their projects. 

In the XI season of the CASE-IN championship, the students had to solve problems on the topic of "Technological Leadership", which covered engineering cases and other tasks developed by the partners of the championship – companies of the fuel and energy and mineral resources complexes, the nuclear industry and related industries: Alrosa (PJSC). JSC SO UES, PJSC Federal Grid Company Rosseti, JSC United Company RUSAL, PJSC Yakutsk Fuel and Energy Company, LLC SIBUR, JSC NIPIGAZ, LLC Gazprom Energoholding, etc.

The students joined teams of 3-4 people, developed solutions for engineering cases in one of 9 industry areas and presented them to the expert commission.

Results of the qualifying stage: 

The Metallurgy direction:
1st place "TexnoVibe"
2nd place "Heavy metal" (Volgograd)
3rd place "Tebinbulak"; 

The direction of Mining:
1st place GEO X team
2nd place team "Miner 2.0"
3rd place team "Dijkau";

The Electric power industry direction:
1st place - the "Current Strength" team
2nd place - the "Bots" team
3rd place - the Razlom team

The winning teams of the qualifying stages will receive tickets to the next stage of the championship, the semi–finals, where they will demonstrate their skills in competition with youth engineering teams from other universities. The Student League competitions will end with the final in Moscow. The finalists will present solutions to industry experts from engineering case development companies, as well as Raspadskaya Coal Company LLC, MHC EuroChem JSC, PJSC RusHydro, Prosoft Systems LLC, Siberian Generating Company LLC, EvrazHolding LLC and other companies.

The champions and prize–winners of the season will be able to complete internships and internships in CASE-IN partner companies with the possibility of further employment. The triumphant students will also receive privileges when applying to master's and postgraduate studies at 24 universities in 18 regions.

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