The representative of the UDE of the North-West headed the expert commission of the "CASE-IN" selection stage

Vasily Wessart, Deputy Head of the Electrical Modes Service at the Northwestern State University, Candidate of Technical Sciences, headed the expert commission of the selection stage. The Student League of the XI International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, which was held at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

The new season of the championship is dedicated to the theme of "Technological Leadership". As part of the qualifying stage, teams from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University and Petrozavodsk State University had to solve and submit for defense a case study on the development of one of Siberia's electric grid facilities until 2030. At the same time, the participants had to take into account the growing level of electricity consumption and ensure the development of the energy facility, introducing exclusively domestic innovative technologies.

The teams had 10 days to prepare the final draft. The face-to-face defense before the expert commission demonstrated not only the high technical readiness of the students, but also the availability of project thinking, managerial and economic knowledge, and the ability to work in a team. All this was noted by the members of the expert commission, which included representatives of the faculty of the Polytechnic University and energy companies.

The Chairman of the commission, Vasily Wessart, noted the interest of the students in the implementation of their projects, as well as the ability to actively and argumentatively defend their point of view, answering numerous questions from experts.  

The DudeNova team, consisting of 4th and 5th year students from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, won in an intense struggle.

"I want to express my gratitude to all the teams for their ideas and their desire to defend them, and for their interest in the profession you have chosen. May the very fact of participating in such an authoritative CASE-IN championship become a platform for your future professional growth, a place for new interesting meetings, and an opportunity to realize your plans.", – I turned to the teams Vasily Wessart after the announcement of the results.

Chief Specialist of the Electrical Modes Service Karelian RDU and a lecturer at Petrozavodsk State University Denis Petrushin He acted as a mentor to the EnergyStar team, which included students from this university. The guys took the honorable 3rd place.

According to the results of the qualifying competitions, which are held on the basis of 60 partner universities of the championship, the best teams, including now the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University team, receive permits to the industry semi-finals of the championship. The authors of the strongest case solutions will meet at the finals 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 organizers of the championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and AstraLogica LLC. The statistical partner of the championship is JSC "UES System Operator". The championship is included in the platform of ANO "Russia – the land of opportunities". The CASE-IN project is being implemented within the framework of the federal project "Social Elevators for everyone" of the national project "Education", is included in the initiative "Science to win" and the plan of the Decade of Science and Technology, which takes place in Russia in 2022-2031.

A source: JSC "SO UES"