Mycromine Company: Final of the Engineering Case-in Championship

On May 31, 2017, Moscow hosted the Final of the 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.

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. MICROMINE Russia has been a partner of the Championship for the fifth year in a row. This year, the company approved a special nomination for teams that used the Micromine mining and geological information system to solve the case.

The final of the Championship in Moscow was the culmination of a four-month marathon of 80 qualifying stages, in which more than 3,500 students took part.  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 Finals, which was held at the site of the State University of Management in Moscow, hosted a plenary session dedicated to the fifth anniversary of the Case-in. Representatives of industry companies, universities, government executive authorities, and students who won previous seasons of the Championship took part as speakers during the session. 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.

On the second day of the Championship It began with a “Career Day”, during which representatives of partner companies, mining companies, met with the finalists in order to invite the best for internships, internships and employment.

In the evening, a solemn ceremony of awarding the winners and prize-winners of the Case-in took place. It was traditionally held at the Vernadsky State Geological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The founder of the company took part in awarding the winners and prize-winners of the League for Geological Exploration and Mining Graham Tudor and Boris Kurtsev, CEO of MICROMINE Russia. Graham Tudor, who became a guest of the Championship for the first time, shared his enthusiastic impressions of the Championship and emphasized the importance of working with universities.

Source: http://www.micromine.ru/case-in-fanal/