The qualifying stage of the CASE-IN championship was held in Stavropol

The North Caucasus Federal University hosted the qualifying stage of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, where university students competed in solving engineering cases.

The CASE-IN competition is being implemented with the support of the presidential platform "Russia – the Land of Opportunities", in accordance with the action plan aimed at popularizing the working and engineering professions, approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation. The qualifying stage of the International Engineering Championship is also held in accordance with the All-Russian Youth Action Plan aimed at popularizing the fuel and energy complex, energy conservation and engineering education. The CASE-IN Championship is included in the Science to Win initiative and the Decade of Science and Technology plan.

"The International CASE-IN Engineering Championship is a unique opportunity to go beyond the university curriculum and truly immerse yourself in the real processes of the industry. Working in a team on live engineering tasks, students not only deepen their professional knowledge, but also learn to clearly formulate ideas, confidently present solutions and defend their position in front of the expert community. These skills will certainly become an important advantage in the career of each participant of the championship," said Dmitry Kostyukov, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Automated Electric Power Systems and Power Supply, Acting Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Oil and Gas Engineering for Educational Work.

The championship is held among students of higher education institutions in solving engineering cases dealing with real production problems and developed based on materials from industry enterprises, and this year more than 200 students from the main university and branches from Pyatigorsk and Nevinnomyssk in the fields of "Electric Power and Electrical Engineering" and "Oil and Gas business" took part in the qualifying stage at the NCFU site.

This is not the first championship for NCFU. In 2024 and 2025, university teams won CASE-IN in the field of Electric Power Engineering, and the championship is based on one of the modern teaching techniques, the case method, which involves teamwork in finding solutions to engineering problems for a real enterprise based on a specific financial and production situation. 

For reference: The qualifying stages of the Championship have been held at the University since 2015. During this time, more than 1,200 university students took part in the Championship, and every year the university teams make their way to the finals of the competition and show decent results in it.

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