SibFU has determined the winners of the engineering championship stage

April 20th at Siberian Federal University The winners of the qualifying stage of the V International Engineering Case-in Championship were awarded. The largest practice-oriented competition of engineering students and the only Russian championship for solving cases of fuel and energy and material and raw materials complexes is being held for the fifth anniversary time. 3,000 students from 47 universities in Russia and the CIS are competing to reach the finals.

At SFU, the best engineering teams were selected in three areas (leagues): "Electric power industry", "Oil and gas business" and "Mining business". The competition is based on the case-study method, which is recognized as one of the leading methods in practical student learning. The main purpose of the method is to provide participants with a real production situation for analyzing specific production and financial indicators and finding optimal solutions to existing problems in the industry. The student teams were asked to find solutions to engineering cases based on materials from Russian manufacturing companies within 10 days and present their findings in a face-to-face defense.

The expert commission included representatives of industry companies and the teaching staff of universities, including SibFU. The developed projects were evaluated according to four criteria:

• technology — technological efficiency of the proposed solutions;
• economics — economic justification of developments, identification of sources of financing;
• Innovativeness is the use of new technologies in solving problems;
• presentation and presentation — public speaking skills, the quality of the report.

The Cheetahs team excelled in the Mining league. Team members Andrey Reshetnev, Vyacheslav Linintsev, Mark Khazov and Maxim Chistov needed to create a concept for the development of a complex Far Eastern deposit: calculate the parameters of the quarry, the volume of investments and equipment. It should be noted that the team in this composition becomes the leader of the Mining league for the second year in a row.

"We have the strength, so we decided to try to perform a second time. When developing the case, we sought advice from teachers and worked as a team. In the final, we want to avoid making mistakes last year, prepare more thoroughly and perform better. Moreover, it is even more important to perform well than to prepare well," said the captain of the team. Maxim Chistov.

In the Oil and Gas Business league, the Nota bene team became the best, consisting of Marina Vnukova, Vladislav Kakhtyurin, Vyacheslav Kotovshchikov and Varvara Cheremisina. The task the guys were working on was to find the best way to extract oil from a low-permeability reservoir.

"Everything was systematically moving towards the fact that we would win. We worked very hard: every day for 10 days we gathered and solved the case for 7-8 hours. We decided to do hydraulic fracturing and pump gas and water alternately to increase oil recovery. We have done a lot of work on reservoir modeling and have made high-quality economic calculations.", — said the captain of the Nota bene team Varvara Cheremisina.

"We chose the classic case development process — team brainstorming. Why did they give us the victory? Firstly, many people noted the quality of the presentation, which plays an important role in the championship. Moreover, we proposed a fairly realistic project that has low costs and a good payback period, which probably bribed everyone. We have ambitious plans for the finals — a prize-winning place at least, we will try to do everything for this. We are glad that thanks to such competitions, students of technical specialties gain experience in communicating with experts from enterprises, we really miss this.", — said the captain of the Impulse team Pavel Mogilny.

"I liked the originality of the guys and the fact that they are moving forward, regardless of the problems, they offer their ideas, which, I emphasize, only seem unviable, but in fact represent non-standard solutions to existing production problems.University graduates have only one "drawback" — lack of seniority, and this scares employers, everyone wants to get a trained specialist with experience, but this is managerial shortsightedness. Industry industries need to cooperate with universities and communicate with their future staff, students of 2-3 courses, already at the training stage, and the championship becomes a kind of platform for this dialogue. I think it's useful for the guys to talk with experts in their respective fields.", — emphasized Alexander Slavinsky, an expert of the Electric Power Industry League, head of the D1 Research Subcommittee The Russian National CIGRE Committee.

In addition, the winners of the first places will go to the finals of the championship, which will be held on May 30-31 in Moscow, where they will have to defend the honor of the university and compete for the opportunity to complete internships and internships in leading industry companies in the country.

A source: http://newslab.ru/news/767531