Magnitogorsk hosted the stage of the international engineering championship "Case-in"

On Wednesday, March 15, 2017, Magnitogorsk State Technical University hosted the stage of the V International Engineering Case-in Championship. Alexey Gordeev, Director of Mining at the Russian Copper Company, took part in it as a member of the jury.

As the RMK press service told FederalPress, more than 3,000 students from 47 universities in 35 regions of Russia and the CIS countries will take part in the championship, which is taking place over four months. The final will be held in Moscow on May 30-31. The organizers of the Championship are the Reliable Change Foundation and the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders.

As part of the qualifying stages of the championship, students of specialized universities are invited to solve engineering cases developed on the basis of real production and business problems of Russian industrial enterprises and defend their solutions before an expert commission. Alexey Gordeev, Director of Mining Production at RMK, was invited to the jury of the Case-in selection stage at MSTU.

At MSTU, more than 40 students competing for 12 teams competed for a ticket to the finals of the Case-in championship this year. All of them demonstrated an excellent balance between bold ideas, a creative approach and an excellent level of mining knowledge. The students answered the difficult questions of the expert jury not without excitement, but for the most part correctly and quite reasonably.

Among the participants of the Case-in championship at Moscow State Technical University who solved mining cases, the first place was taken by the Lazurit team (Denis Asanov and Timur Tashtimirov, 5th year students specializing in Mining, and Anna Fedorina and Anastasia Sharonova, graduate students of the Department of Logistics Management of Transport Systems). They received a ticket to the finals of the All-Russian Case-in championship.

According to Gordeev, MSTU students demonstrated a good level of training and defended their projects quite well: "Students who participate in such events– both in the Case-in championship and in the competition held by RMK, are inquisitive minds. Any company can hire them in the future, and they will not regret it, they will be good specialists."

In his opinion, as many students as possible should participate in such championships and competitions: to show themselves at their best and increase their value and value in the eyes of potential employers, to learn how to work with information and look for solutions to non-standard tasks, to gain experience in public speaking and defending their point of view.

"Perhaps it is worth considering additional motivation for students, which will make participation in such case competitions more interesting, so that they prepare better and strive not just to participate, but to win. This will be useful for them, and ultimately for the entire industry," the expert believes.

It should be noted that RMK already held a similar event at MSTU in 2016 as part of the RMK-Quarry project. At that time, more than 40 students applied to participate in the competition, but only 15 people reached the solution of the cases. Anna Shabarova, RMK's Vice President for Personnel Policy and Social Responsibility, explained that each such event allows the company to replenish its "talent pool" by identifying the most gifted and promising students.

We should add that RMK and MSTU began to cooperate closely in May 2016, when a cooperation agreement was signed with Magnitogorsk University, providing for cooperation between the university and one of the leaders of the Russian non-ferrous metallurgy market in the field of targeted student education, industrial internship at RMK enterprises, and encouragement of the best students. In the summer of 2016, nine MSTU students completed practical training at the Mikheevsky GOK and at the Alexandrinsky Mining and Ore Company (RMK enterprises in the Chelyabinsk Region). This year, the number of MSTU interns at RMK enterprises may reach several dozen people.

A source: http://fedpress.ru/news/74/company-news/1757977