The international engineering championship "Case-in" starts on March 2 at Irkutsk National Research Technical University

Stages of the V Jubilee The International Engineering Championship "Case-in" they start in IRNITA 2nd of March. The University will host five leagues on its site: mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, electric power industry and geological exploration. In four months, the Championship will cover 47 universities from 35 regions of Russia and the CIS countries. More than 3,000 students will compete for a ticket to the finals of the Championship, which will traditionally be held in Moscow on May 30-31.

Registration of participants takes place on the official website of the Case-in Championship (http://case-in.ru/)

As noted by the curator of the "Case-in" at IRNTU, Professor of the Department of Power Supply and Electrical Engineering Konstantin Suslov The engineering championship helps students to show their professional knowledge and ability to solve complex production tasks: "In many ways, our teams benefit from a unique interdisciplinary approach. Together with students of the specialties specialized for the championship, the teams include future specialists in industrial enterprise management from the Institute of Economics, Management and Law. Many of them are actively involved in the innovative activities of the university, are members of scientific societies, including the SNIO "Innovatika: Investment engineering". The relationship between the specialty "Innovation" and other institutes of IRNTU, which are willing to accept bachelor's degrees in economics for their master's degree programs, has already become traditional.

An integrated approach to the recruitment and training of teams from IRNTU plays a very important role, and gives its results. For example, last year the final stage of the geological exploration league was won by the Center of the Earth team of Irkutsk Technical University, which included not only future geologists, but also students of economics. Our teams are traditionally strong in the electric power industry league. In 2015, the Energy4-Irk team became the winner of the All-Russian Championship for solving Fuel and Energy Cases."

It should be noted that the Case-in International Engineering Championship is Russia's only federal case championship of fuel and energy and mineral resources complexes, an effective tool for transferring practical knowledge, experience and new competencies to future specialists.

The championship is a competition in which student teams need to solve an engineering case prepared based on materials from leading industry companies in ten days and defend their ideas before an expert commission consisting of representatives of industry companies, scientific and educational organizations.

The organizers of the Championship are the Reliable Change Foundation and the Youth Forum of Mining Leaders Non−profit Partnership. The League on Electric Power Industry is co–organized by the International Council for Large High−Voltage Electrical Systems CIGRE, and the League on Oil and Gas Industry is co-organized by Tyumen Industrial University.

In 2017, the national partners of the Championship will be the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, as well as the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh) and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects.

By tradition, the opening ceremony of each league of the Championship will be held at universities whose team won the league in the previous season, so the official opening of the Championship will take place at several leading universities in the country: Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin (League for Electric Power and Metallurgy), Ural State Mining University (League mining), Irkutsk National Research Technical University (League for Geological Exploration), Tyumen Industrial University (League for Oil and Gas Business).

The winners of the qualifying stages will compete for the title of the best engineering student teams and for the opportunity to complete internships and internships in leading industry companies. The best teams of the Mining and electric power Engineering Leagues will also have a chance to participate in the annual summer educational programs "Mining School" and "Energy of Youth".

REFERENCE: The International Engineering Case-in Championship is the successor of the All−Russian Mining Case Solving Championship (2013-2014) and the All-Russian Fuel and Energy Case Solving Championship (2015). The Championship is being 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.