The qualifying stage of the Case-in championship was held in Perm

Perm National Research Polytechnic University hosted the regional stage of the 5th anniversary International engineering championship "Case-in".

For the third year now, Perm Polytechnic University has been acting as a platform bringing together students, masters and postgraduates from Perm to solve an engineering case on the actual problems of a real enterprise. Student teams competed in four leagues: "Electric Power Industry", "Oil and Gas business", "Metallurgy" and "Mining".

This year, 36 teams worked on the case, the solutions of which were evaluated by an expert commission consisting of university professors and invited specialists from leading industrial enterprises in the mining, oil and gas and energy sectors of the region. The case study on the electric power industry, in particular, contained tasks for the development of technological and innovative measures to reduce electricity losses in electric networks.

According to the results of the regional stage in the "Electric Power Industry" league, the prizes were distributed as follows:

First place - the KZ team (Egor Bakai, Andrey Kalugin, Maxim Lyadov, Pavel Shalaumov);

Second place - the AC/DC team (Anatoly Kusakin, Sergey Mishurinskikh, Alexander Porygin, Vyacheslav Potapov);

Third place – the Energy team (Nikolay Degterev, Elena Zhvakina, Ekaterina Serebryakova, Elena Chepkasova).



Dmitry Boyarshinov, Deputy Chief Engineer for Operational Dispatch Management and Head of the Grid Management Center of the IDGC of the Urals branch of Permenergo, became one of the experts in the Electric Power Industry League. He highly appreciated the idea of holding the championship.

"The competitions of student engineering teams allow us to assess with a high degree of objectivity how future power engineers manifest themselves in teamwork, how successfully they can brainstorm effective solutions to their tasks."- Dmitry Boyarshinov noted.



For reference

The V anniversary International Engineering Championship "Case-in" started in February 2017.
The Championship was initiated by the Reliable Change Foundation with the support of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, as well as the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh) and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects.
In 4 months, the Championship will cover 47 universities from 35 regions of Russia and the CIS countries. More than 3,000 students will compete for a ticket to the finals of the Championship, which will traditionally be held in Moscow on May 30-31, 2017. The winners of the leagues will be able to complete internships and internships at leading companies in the country.

A source: PermNews.ru