Volgograd RDU experts appreciated the ideas of future power engineers from Volzhsky

The qualifying stage of the main season of the Student League of the XII International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" took place at the National Research University "MEI" in Volzhsky, a partner university of the System Operator.

The Director of the Branch of the Unified Energy System System Operator JSC delivered a welcoming speech at the grand opening of the qualifying stage of the CASE-IN championship Volgogradskoe railway station Alexey Koreshkov: "All the students of the qualifying stage of the championship present here are already winners. Participation in the CASE-IN championship gives each of you the opportunity to prove yourself, gain invaluable experience by solving real production tasks and engaging in engineering and technical creativity. This competition is a good opportunity for us to pay attention to talented, creative guys who will be able to build a career in the System Operator in the future."

The general theme of this year's championship is "Lean Manufacturing". It is directly related to one of the industry's priority tasks – the synthesis of operational dispatch management technologies of JSC System Operator of the Unified Energy System and subjects of the electric power industry, Industry 4.0 technologies and artificial intelligence, which allows opening up new opportunities and prospects for the development of the electric power industry, including to achieve the goals of lean manufacturing.

In the "Electric Power Industry" direction of the Student League of the Championship, the task of the qualifying stage, developed by the specialists of the System Operator, was related to the analysis of digital technologies used by JSC "System Operator of the Unified Energy System" and the proposal of innovative technological solutions for managing the energy system using artificial intelligence.

Ten teams took part in solving the case. Following an intense marathon of project defense, the expert commission recognized the This is Base team as the undisputed winner of the qualifying stage. The team members – 4th year bachelor's degree students in Electric Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering Lyubov Chernobayeva, Vladislav Efimov, Daniil Botov and Veronika Redkina – according to experts, the topic of the case was most fully disclosed.

The chairman of the expert commission at the qualifying stage of the championship in Volzhsky was the deputy chief dispatcher of the Volgograd RDU Alexander Ageev, In addition, the commission included the Deputy Head of the Automated Dispatch Control Systems Service, Head of the Volgograd RDU Implementation and Maintenance Department. Denis Danilov.

Qualifying and final cases of the Electric Power Industry field, developed based on materials and with the participation of specialists from the System Operator, are held at all partner universities of the company, and representatives of the System Operator act as experts for both the qualifying stages of the championship and the final of the competition.

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