The partner of the championship, the System Operator, implements an internship program for students

Undergraduates and bachelors of partner universities of the Reliable Shift Foundation and its flagship project, the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship, who are undergoing a summer internship at the Branch of the System Operator ODU of Siberia, visited the Kemerovo GRES.

For undergraduates of the Engineering School of Energy of the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, studying under the specialized System Operator program, summer internship at the dispatch center has long been the norm. 

In addition to the internship at the dispatch center, this year's trainees had a rare opportunity to visit one of the most important power plants in the Kuzbass energy system. The students' acquaintance with big power engineering began with a visit to the Kemerovo GRES. This is a significant large-scale energy facility that supplies electricity to the Unified Energy System of Siberia and provides heat to more than half of the consumers of the regional center of Kuzbass.

Konstantin Tetyukhin, Deputy Head of the Kemerovo GRES Vocational Training Center, spoke about the company, the mode and features of the GRES operation, the main professions and requirements for the specialists who work here. Using the example of the Kemerovo GRES, future power engineers learned how the dispatchers of the power plant interact with the dispatchers of the Kemerovo RDU. 

The tour was attended not only by undergraduates from Tomsk Polytechnic University, but also by 3rd-year bachelors from Kuzbass State Technical University named after T.F. Gorbachev and Novosibirsk State Technical University. During the career guidance meetings with representatives of the System Operator in the spring, they expressed interest in completing a summer internship at the dispatch center, and they were given the opportunity.

"Visiting energy companies makes it possible to realize the scale of power facilities and the important role of the System Operator in managing their technological modes of operation", – says Valentina Podglazova, a graduate student at TPU.

Ilya Koptsev, a graduate student at TPU, joins her opinion: "Such excursions allow us to assess the scale of domestic energy, its primary role in ensuring the well–being of the population, the development of industry and the economy of the country, as well as to systematize the knowledge gained at the university about technological processes - in this case, about the production of electric and thermal energy."

"Familiarization with the work of energy companies is necessary to compare the materials studied at the Institute with the actual equipment and processes of energy facilities", – Daria Baykalova, a student at TPU, is sure.

Diana Petrova, a third–year student at NSTU - NETI, noted that she had visited the GRES for the first time, and this was a very useful experience.: "Universities teach theory, and sometimes it's not always clear how the equipment works in practice. In general, the practice at the ODE of Siberia is very intense, I learned a lot of new things. The internship program immerses the student well into the working atmosphere: you will learn about communication channels, the purpose of automation, the OIC complex and much more."

At the end of the summer internship, Tomsk Polytechnic University interns will have to defend their results. During public appearances before a specially created commission at the university with the participation of representatives of the System Operator, undergraduates will talk about the implementation of specific production tasks. This will make it possible to determine the trajectory of professional training for further employment in specific departments of the System Operator.

For bachelor's degree trainees, the internship will be a good starting point for self-determination with a further learning trajectory and will open up opportunities for admission to the specialized master's program of a System Operator at TPU.

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