V Anniversary International Engineering Championship "Case-in": engineers, get started!

Alexander Novak, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, notes the importance of the Championship: "Over the five years of its implementation, the Championship has become an authoritative industry platform bringing together all parties interested in developing Russia's engineering and technical potential: the government, companies, higher education institutions, industry-specific public initiatives, and advanced youth."

The championship is a competition in which student teams solve an engineering case 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 championship is held in five areas (leagues): electric power industry, mining, geological exploration, metallurgy, oil and gas business. The championship includes 85 qualifying stages at the sites of 47 leading technical universities in Russia and the CIS countries.

In the finals, which will traditionally be held in Moscow on May 30-31, 2017, the winning teams 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 winners 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". Traditionally, the university whose team won the Championship in the previous season wins the right to open the Championship.

In the 2016 season, Ural student teams won three Championship cups at once. The champion of the League in mining was the Nautilus team from the Ural State Mining University; the champion of the League in electric Power industry was the Zvezda Triangle team, and the champion of the League in metallurgy was the UrFU Non—Ferrous Metals team from the Ural Federal University named after the first President B.N. Yeltsin.
Thanks to this victory, Yekaterinburg will host the official opening of three leagues at once.: Electric Power Industry Leagues, Metallurgy Leagues, and Mining Leagues.

The opening of the League for Electric Power Industry and the League for Metallurgy will take place on February 28 at the Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin (Yekaterinburg, Sofya Kovalevskaya str. 5, Conference Hall, 10:00)

The opening ceremony will be attended by:
1. Irina Alexandrovna Ermakova, Deputy Director for Human Resources and General Issues at the Sverdlovsk Branch of PJSC T Plus
2. Kazakova Victoria Vladimirovna, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Sverdlovsk Region
3. Viktor A. Koksharov, Rector of Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin
4. Artem Sergeevich Korolev, Director of the Reliable Shift Charitable Foundation
5. Lobovsky Igor Markovich, President of the Association for the Development of International Research and Projects in the Field of energy "Global Energy"
6. Pavlov Vladimir Ivanovich, General Director of the branch of JSC SO UES ODE to the Urals
7. Shutenko Alla Alekseevna, Deputy Head of the Personnel Management Department, Head of the Personnel Development Department of JSC SO UES

The opening of the Mining League will take place on 28.02.2017 at the Ural State Mining University (Yekaterinburg, Kuibyshev St. 30, Tsarsky Hall, 14:00).

The opening ceremony will be attended by:
1. Natalia Babilurova, Head of the Human Resources Department, Siberian Anthracite JSC
2. Valiev Niyaz Gadymovich, Acting Rector of UGSU
3. Zelenyak Maria Vladimirovna, representative of the Organizing Committee of the Championship
4. Kornilkov Sergey Viktorovich, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Mining, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
5. Kurtsev Boris Vladislavovich, CEO of MICROMINE Russia
6. Lobovsky Igor Markovich, President of the Association for the Development of International Research and Projects in the Field of energy "Global Energy"
7. Ivan Ivanovich Mokhnachuk, Chairman of the Russian Independent Trade Union of Coal Industry Workers, member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation and confidant of the President of the Russian Federation

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, five federal ministries will act as national partners of the Championship: the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation, 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.

The championship is supported annually by the largest industry companies. This season, the following companies plan to use the Championship platform to select the most promising future specialists: JSC SUEK, JSC SO UES, PJSC Tatneft, JSC Rosgeologiya, PJSC FGC UES, PJSC NK Rosneft, PJSC Mechel, JSC Siberian Anthracite, LLC Kolmar Management Company, EvrazHolding LLC, Vostochnaya Mining Company LLC, RusHydro PJSC, IBM Montan LLC, Sverdlovsky Branch of T Plus PJSC, Novolipetsk Metallurgical Combine PJSC, Mycromine Rus LLC, Raspadskaya PJSC.