About 5,000 participants are expected at the International Engineering Championship.

About 5,000 people can participate in the International Engineering Case-in Championship in Russia in 2017. Today, the regional qualifying stage of the championship, in which 10 teams participate, is taking place on the basis of the North Caucasus Federal University (NCFU) in Stavropol.

In the first year of the championship, we had 500 participants from all universities (in Russia — ed.), last year there were already 3,000. Now we are moving towards the number of 5,000 participants. Interest in the championship is growing, as the guys see that the project is yielding results — they can get internships, internships, and jobs in serious companies." Artyom Korolev, the founder of the championship and director of the Reliable Change Charitable Foundation, told TASS at the opening of the stage. The NCFU regional qualifying stage has been held for the Electric Power Industry league for the third year in a row. 10 student teams from the NCFU Institute of Electric Power Engineering, Electronics and Nanotechnology are competing for the finals (in 2016, 8 teams participated). In nine days, the students solved problems based on real data from large Russian companies. "It is important that the number of universities participating in the project is growing. We started with 11 universities, with one field (mining). Over the past five years, the number of areas has grown to five, with 47 Russian universities participating. NCFU has organized the qualifying stage at a very high level, and there has always been positive feedback from experts.",  Korolev added.

Six CIS countries joined the championship.

According to Korolev, teams of students from six countries have joined the number of participants this year. In particular, applications were submitted by teams from Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. In 2016, in addition to Russian students, teams from Kazakhstan and Mongolia participated in the championship, Korolev noted. "The number of countries that are joining us is growing, now they are mainly CIS countries, Russian-speaking students, so that there is no language barrier when solving cases, so that everyone is on an equal footing. This year we plan to host about eight international teams that will come to the finals.", — added the founder of the championship.

What is the Case-in Championship?

The International Engineering Case-in Championship is a competition where student teams solve practical engineering problems based on the 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 finals for the best teams will be held on May 30-31 in Moscow. From 2013 to 2017, 6,252 people from Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia took part in the championship. The event is supported by 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, and the Ministry of Labor The Russian Federation and the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.

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