ProSoft-Systems evaluated Ural students

The qualifying stage of the V anniversary International Engineering Championship "Case-in" was held at Ural Federal University. The knowledge and professionalism of the Ural students were appreciated, among others, by employees of Prosoft-Systems, who were invited as experts to the League for the Electric Power Industry.

The qualifying stage of the championship has traditionally been held in several industries: electric power, geological exploration, mining, metallurgy and oil and gas. Applications for participation in the electric power industry league were submitted by 14 student teams. The guys were given a difficult task – to solve the engineering case in 10 days, prepare a presentation of the solution and present it at the qualifying stage in 6 minutes. After that, answer the experts' questions.

Unsurprisingly, not everyone reached the final. 8 teams of Ural students presented their solutions to the case.

- The task, in my opinion, was very difficult. If we take a global approach, this is the development of an energy supply system for a mining and processing plant with several quarries and a large infrastructure. It will take more than one year of work to develop all the projects from start to finish and fully design the system. And the students had to develop basic solutions in 10 days., - told Valery Smirnov, Deputy General Director for Engineering in the electric power industry Prosoft-Systems companies.

The solved cases were evaluated by the participants of the expert commission according to several criteria at once: from the point of view of technology, economics, as well as originality and innovative solutions, which the students had in abundance.

- I liked that some students came out for The usual framework. The sophomore team, for example, proposed building a geothermal the station and generate electricity from the heat of the earth, - told Vladislav Slepukhin, cost estimation engineer at Prosoft Systems. – Today's students try to apply innovative technologies, and this is the way to the near future.

The winning team in the electric power industry league was the ABC team. The second and third places went to students from "Reactive Nature" and "MDS". In addition, Prosoft-Systems specialists highlighted two participants of the championship. Maria Pospelova and Albina Gavrilova, 3rd year students of the UrFU Department of Automated Electrical Systems, received special prizes from the company.

Let's add that the winners of the qualifying stage of the international engineering championship "Case-in" will go to Moscow, where they will be able to compete for the main victory.

A source ProSoft Systems