Vladikavkaz student team entered the top five at the CASE-IN championship"

The final of the XI International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" was held at the NUST MISIS site in Moscow.

In the field of Mining, 132 teams entered the championship, 10 became finalists, among them the team of the Mining and Metallurgical Faculty of the North Caucasus Mining and Metallurgical Institute (State Technological University). According to the results of the competition, students from Ossetia – Ekaterina Lopushnyak (ENb-19-1), Abdulla Magomedov (GDs-19-1), Azat Manukyan (GDs-19-1) – took 5th place in the prestigious engineering competition.  

Future mining engineers, on behalf of ALROSA, presented advanced mining technologies that will ensure the safe and uninterrupted operation of the Yubileyny quarry in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), as well as measures that will reduce the maintenance time of self-propelled machinery and increase the efficiency of repair personnel. Geological students needed to develop a method for searching for kimberlite bodies using aerial photography. All solutions included the use of IT technologies. 

Nino Stadnik, team mentor: "We had a very strong and comprehensive solution, but the jury wanted to see only the private technological part. Apparently, too comprehensive an approach prevented us from becoming winners. We will take these errors into account in the future. As it is, 5th place among the strongest teams in Russia is an excellent result, and if you look at it from the beginning of the season, 5th place out of 132 teams is excellent. Overall, the event left positive impressions. The organization of the final is at the highest level. I would especially like to mention the master classes from top managers of major industry companies in charge of Mining - ALROSA (PJSC), SIBUR Holding, Siberian Anthracite JSC, Mycromine Rus LLC, Raspadskaya Coal Company LLC. The guys could communicate with the representatives directly and receive valuable prizes."

"There were positive emotions from Case-in 2023, because our team managed to achieve success in the qualifying, semi-final and final stages. Teamwork is at the heart of all our victories and achievements. We will go forward to victory next year", - noted Manukyan Azat.

"Every participant in the championship was not deprived of attention, in general it seemed that we were some kind of super-stars! We were constantly interviewed, asked to tell us where we came from, photographed and filmed. There were many prize-winning quests and puzzles from leading mining companies in the lobby. It was a real celebration! We were very worried before the speech, but during our presentation we gathered. The jury marked our team as the best in answering the questions. I hope that next year we will be winners!" - said Magomedov Abdullah

"This is the 3rd time I have participated in the Mining Case-in. This year was a very difficult case. It was necessary not only to offer the best technological solution, but also to design a real quarry in the mining and geological information system Micromine. We have completed all the tasks. The result is pretty good-we are among the TOP strongest case-solving teams in Russia!" - Ekaterina Lopushnyak emphasized.

Igor Alekseev, Rector of SKGMI (GTU), received a congratulatory letter from V.L. Petrov, Chairman of the Federal Educational and Methodological Association of Universities in the Higher Education System "Applied Geology, Mining, Oil and Gas Engineering and Geodesy", Vice-rector of NUST MISIS.

In the letter, Professor V.L. Petrov congratulates SKSMU on the success of the GEO X Mining and Metallurgical Faculty team, which was among the top five at the championship.

"This is the merit of the scientific and pedagogical staff of the Mining Department, which works under the leadership of Professor Oleg Gabaraev, Oleg Znaurovich, and the head of the team, Associate Professor Nino Mamukaevna Stadnik. These are well-known professionals in the mining community, and now they are training a new generation of professionals who, after leaving the university in a few years, will develop mining in all corners of our homeland and glorify their university. The Case-In championship is very difficult. There is a very high level of competition among the competition teams. The more valuable the achievement is", - said Chairman FUMO. 

In 11 years, the project has become the largest and most prestigious youth competition for solving engineering cases. The strongest participants of the Student League can enroll in master's and postgraduate studies at 24 universities on preferential terms, complete internships and internships in partner companies with the possibility of further employment.

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