The best student engineering teams of Russia and the CIS in 2017 have been identified!

The Final has ended in Moscow V anniversary International Engineering Championship "Case-in", which brought together 83 teams of students from 48 technical universities in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, who presented solutions to engineering cases in five Leagues: geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, and electric power industry.

The International Engineering Case-in Championship is the largest practice-oriented competition in Russia and the CIS countries for solving engineering cases among university students.

The final of the Championship in Moscow was the culmination of a four-month marathon of 80 qualifying stages, including which were attended by more than 3,500 students.

The Final was attended by 350 best engineering students and more than 200 experts representing companies in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.

As part of the first day of the Final, which was held at the State University of Management, a plenary session dedicated to the fifth anniversary of the Case-in was held, in which representatives of industry companies, universities, government executive authorities, and students who won previous seasons of the Championship took part as speakers.

Anatoly Wasserman, a well-known journalist, publicist, TV presenter, multiple winner of intellectual games, became a special guest of the plenary session.

The main part of the first day was spent defending engineering case solutions. In just 10 days, the finalist teams prepared solutions to five engineering cases developed based on materials from the Fuel and Energy Complex and MSK companies of Russia and describing real production tasks.

To evaluate the finalists' decisions, 5 expert commissions were formed, consisting of more than 100 managers and specialists from leading industry companies.

The award ceremony for the winners and prize-winners of the Case-in was traditionally held at the Vernadsky State Geological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Awards to the Case-in champions were presented by the Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Anatoly Yanovsky.

"The fuel and energy complex is the foundation of our country's economy, and no development is possible without qualified personnel. Each of you has a huge responsibility. I am very glad that our championship has already become international, and universities from Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan have joined it. I hope that this geography will expand. I wish you to achieve the goals that you set for yourself. All your victories depend only on you!"- admonished the future engineers A.Yanovsky.

The winners of the geological exploration and mining leagues traditionally received awards from the hands of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Academy of Mining Sciences, President of the State Geological Museum. Vernadsky RAS Yuri Malyshev.

"Today, the flower of the future of the fuel and energy and mining industries has gathered here - the talents who tomorrow will lead large enterprises of the Russian industry.", − noted Yu.Malyshev.

Representatives of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, the Federal Program "Work in Russia", the Russian National Committee of the International Council for Large High Voltage Electrical Systems (CIGRE), the All–Russian Industry Association of Employers of Energy Suppliers and Case–in partner Companies also took part in awarding the winners: JSC SO UES, JSC SUEK, PJSC FGC UES, LLC IBM Montan, JSC Rosgeologiya, LLC Mycromine Rus, JSC MHC EuroChem, JSC Siberian Anthracite, PJSC NLMK, PJSC Tatneft, PJSC Rosneft Oil Company, PJSC RusHydro, PhosAgro Group. 

The winner of the Exploration League was the "Handymen" team Sergo Ordzhonikidze Russian State Geological Exploration University (Moscow): Olga Vladimirtseva, Sergey Korotkov, Mikhail Mityugov, Ilya Protasov. 

The winner of the Mining League was the TopTim team St. Petersburg Mining University: Polina Zinovieva, Alexander Nosov, Valeria Frolova, Valery Yaroshenko. 

The winner of the Metallurgy League was The Millennium team Lipetsk State Technical University: Alexander Gordeev, Alisa Potanina, Denis Prikhodko, Vitaly Chigarev.

The winner of the Oil and Gas Business League was the team "Nota Bene» Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk): Marina Vnukova, Vyacheslav Kotovshchikov, Igor Trofimov, Varvara Cheremisina.

The winner of the Electric Power Industry League was The Case Masters 3000 team Novosibirsk State Technical University: Dmitry Baluyev, Anastasia Ivashkevich, Ilya Mishakov, Gleb Nesterenko.

As part of the Finals, a closed Career Day was also held, during which Case–in partners met directly with the finalists of the Championship in order to invite the best for internships, internships and employment. The Career Day was attended by: PJSC Tatneft, JSC SO UES, PJSC NK Rosneft, RNK CIGRE, PJSC FGC UES, JSC Rosgeologiya, LLC Mikromain RUS, PJSC Mechel, PJSC NLMK, JSC Siberian Anthracite, LLC EvrazHolding, PJSC Enel Russia.

The event's rich program also included two special master classes dedicated to public speaking skills from leading speakers in the field: Vadim Kurilov, a teacher, business coach, owner of the Aitcom communications agency, and Andrey Skvortsov, CEO of Mercator, an expert in corporate and industrial advertising.

The winners of the Championship, in addition to being named the best engineering student team of 2017, are included in the personnel reserve of the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes and will participate in the Mining School and Youth Energy summer educational programs. The winners and prize–winners also received a large number of prizes and gifts from the partner companies of the Championship. A special award was the inclusion of the Case-in winners among the participants of the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students, which will be held in Sochi in October 2017.

By tradition, the Final of the Case-in also named the winners of the "Energy of Education", a special award for participating universities for the best organization of the qualifying stage of the Case−in.

The Energy of Education Award, which is awarded by the Reliable Change Foundation in cooperation with the Global Energy Association for the Development of International Energy Research and Projects, was presented to the winning universities by the winner of the Global Energy International Prize, a Russian scientist and military figure, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vice Admiral, winner of the Russian Government Prize in fields of science and technology Ashot Sarkisov.

Diplomas of the first degree "Energy of Education" were awarded to Ural State Mining University, North Caucasus Federal University, Lipetsk State Technical University, Almetyevsk State Petroleum Institute, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University.

The organizers of the Championship are the Reliable Change Foundation and the Non−profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders. The League on Electric Power Industry was co–organized by the International Council for Large High Voltage Electrical Systems CIGRE, and the League on Oil and Gas Industry was co−organized by Tyumen Industrial University.

The national partners of the Championship were 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.

The championship was held with the support of the following companies: JSC SUEK, JSC SO UES, PJSC Tatneft, JSC Rosgeologiya, PJSC FGC UES, PJSC NK Rosneft, JSC Rosgeologiya, JSC MHC EuroChem, PJSC Mechel, JSC Sibirsky anthracite, LLC Kolmar Management Company, LLC EvrazHolding, LLC Vostochnaya Mining Company, PJSC RusHydro, LLC IBM SI Montan, DMT, Sverdlovsk Branch of PJSC T Plus, PJSC Novolipetsk Metallurgical Combine, LLC Mycromine Rus, PJSC Raspadskaya.