South Ural steelworkers have looked for promising young people

Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant became a partner of the fifth international engineering Case-in championship. As noted in the company's press release, students from 48 technical universities in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan took part in the anniversary professional competition.

Chelyabinsk Metallurgists have become special partners of the Case-in championship, the largest practice–oriented competition in Russia for solving engineering cases among university students. Representatives of the combine and Mechel-Steel Management Company acted as experts of the qualifying stages and the final of the competition, held several meetings with the finalists during the Case-in Career Day. In 2017, for the first time, a team of targeted students from SUSU participated in the championship. 

- The organizers of the Case-in have built a system that really helps to select the most promising students studying engineering. The championship allows you to evaluate the knowledge of the participants, their ability to express and defend their point of view when solving a complex problem in the field of modern production. The teams that passed the qualifying stages demonstrated an understanding of engineering technologies, sociability, the ability to navigate a rapidly changing environment and work collectively," said Evgeny Karavaev, an expert of the League on Metallurgy, Director of the Investment Department of Mechel–Steel Management Company LLC.

The final of the Case-in brought together 83 teams of students who solved engineering cases in five leagues: geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, electric power industry. According to the assignment of the Metallurgy League case, the teams needed to assess the investment attractiveness of a metallurgical mini-plant located in the Nizhny Novgorod agglomeration and determine the optimal production parameters under which the construction of a mini-plant would be appropriate.

A source: Electronic periodical "Mediazavod"