Two teams will represent the university in the finals of prestigious engineering competitions.

The university hosted the qualifying stage of the International Case-in Championship among young Power engineers and metallurgists

Today at Ural Federal University has passed the qualifying stage V anniversary International Engineering Championship "Case-in". This is the only federal case championship in Russia among future engineering specialists, during which they gain practical knowledge, experience and new competencies.

This year, Ural Federal University received the right to host the qualifying stages of the championship in two leagues at once — in the electric power industry and metallurgy — due to the success of its students in the previous championship: in 2016, the teams Zvezda Triangle and Non—Ferrous Metals of UrFU became the best in the final of the competition.

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

According to the results of the qualifying stage, the experts selected the two best teams that will represent Ural Federal University in May at the Case-in finals in Moscow. Among power engineers, the ABC team from the Ural Energy Institute took the first place, and among metallurgical engineers, the TIM team from Institute of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

"This is a very big event for us, which we have been striving for for a long time," says Igor Zonov, a representative of the ABC team, a first—year master's student at UralENIN. — This time we participated with almost the same team as a year ago, and thanks to the experience we already had, everything worked out. We had much more confidence in our abilities, we learned how to place accents and competently present the project on defense. It is noticeable that the championship is getting better every year, it is expanding, there are more and more partners, there are more leagues. I would like to wish the organizers that this process continues and becomes more ambitious."

The Case-in 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".