Cases were presented in two areas – "Mining" and "Electric power industry". SGK employees – Alexander Abramkin, Deputy Head of the Electrotechnical service of the Kuzbass branch of SGK, and Pavel Karaguzhev, Deputy head of the Kemerovo GRES electrical workshop, joined the league's expert commission on the electric power industry.
KuzSTU students had to not only solve practical cases, but also make a presentation of this decision before the commission, justify their approach and answer questions from experts. When evaluating the presentations, the technical competence of the solution, its novelty, the assessment of the economic component, the quality of the design and presentation were taken into account.
In the "Corona Discharge" case, future power engineers needed to analyze the annual operating modes of the Alexandrovskaya GRES power transmission line and develop a set of solutions to maximize the reduction of electricity losses during corona discharge on transmission line wires at minimal financial cost.
«The Siberian Generating Company has been participating in the Case-in. The championship gives students another incentive to develop, gives them a new experience. This is a great opportunity to communicate with talented and promising graduate students, because our company is interested in attracting young qualified personnel.", - explained Elena Solonko, Head of the Recruitment, evaluation, and Personnel Development Department at the Kuzbass branch of SGK.
The Case-in International Engineering Championship is an educational project of the Reliable Shift Foundation, which aims to identify and support active, talented and motivated students and postgraduates in the energy and mining fields. At the in-person qualifying stages, which take place on the basis of participating universities (23 Russian universities have joined the League for the Electric Power Industry), teams of 4 students solve engineering cases.
An expert jury consisting of representatives of technical and personnel services of fuel and energy complex enterprises, industry scientific and educational organizations assess the solution of cases at the qualifying stage. The team of students who took the first place goes to the final of the championship in Moscow.