The qualifying stages of the international engineering Championship "Case-in" have begun in Ural universities

The qualifying stages of the fifth federal case championship for students studying professions in the fuel and energy and mineral resources fields began in Yekaterinburg at the sites of Ural Federal University (UrFU) and Ural State Mining University (UGSU).

UrFU hosts two Leagues - in the electric power industry and metallurgy. "I am pleased to welcome everyone to the opening of the fifth season of the Case-in Engineering Championship. This week we will have openings in Yekaterinburg, Tyumen and Irkutsk," said Artem Korolev, founder of Case-in, director of the Reliable Change Charitable Foundation, at the opening ceremony in UrFU.

On Tuesday, Mining and Geological Exploration Leagues opened at another university in the region, UGSU. "The championship is very popular at the Mining University, there are students who participate in it every year. This time we have a record number of teams - 24. There were so many applicants that we even had to hold a qualifying stage," said Tatiana Lazareva, a graduate student at UGSU.

About the championship

The International Engineering Case-in Championship is a competition in which student teams solve a case-practical engineering problem in ten days, based on a real production situation and prepared based on materials from industry enterprises. The teams then defend their ideas before an expert panel, which consists of representatives of industry companies, as well as scientific and educational organizations.

This year's championship includes five areas (Leagues): "Electric power industry", "Mining", "Geological exploration", "Metallurgy", "Oil and gas business". The opening of the championship is held in those universities whose teams won last year. This year, the championship will open at four venues at once - on February 28 in UrFU and UGSU, and on March 2 at Irkutsk National Research Technical University (League for Geological Exploration) and Tyumen Industrial University (League for Oil and Gas Business).

About 3,200 participants

The championship consists of two parts: in-person qualifying stages at university sites and the final for the best teams, which will be held on May 30-31, 2017 in Moscow. This year, during the championship, 85 qualifying stages will be held at the sites of 47 technical universities in Russia and the CIS countries - according to the organizers, about 3,200 students will take part in them. Students from the winning teams will have the opportunity to complete an internship or internship in leading Russian industry companies. The winners of the Mining and Electric Power Engineering Leagues will also be able to participate in the annual summer educational programs "Mining School" and "Energy of Youth".

In 2017, the Case-in championship is held with the support of five federal ministries - the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Labor of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. Among the industry companies that support the championship are Rosneft, Tatneft, SUEK, SO UES, Rosgeologiya, FGC UES, Mechel, EvrazHolding, and RusHydro. The International Engineering Case-in Championship has been held for the fifth time, but previously it was held under the names of the All-Russian Mining Case Solving Championship (20132/2014) and the All-Russian Fuel and Energy Case Solving Championship (2015). From 2013 to 2017, 6252 participants from Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.

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